Asahi Beverages

Manufacturing Manager

Asahi Beverages  •  Perth, AU (Onsite)  •  5 days ago
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Job Description

Your Impact

As Manufacturing Manager at our Welshpool, WA site, you’ll play a key leadership role in ensuring safe, stable and efficient manufacturing operations across our packaging and beverage areas. You’ll work closely with the broader manufacturing leadership team to balance daily operational priorities, lead people through complexity, and keep production running smoothly in a fast‑paced FMCG environment.
You’ll sit at the heart of the site supply chain – balancing people leadership, operational excellence and improvement initiatives to drive productivity, quality and sustainable growth. This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys being hands‑on, building capability, and creating an environment where teams can perform at their best.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the safe, efficient and environmentally responsible manufacture of high‑quality FMCG beverage products
  • Own and deliver the site manufacturing continuous improvement agenda, identifying constraints and unlocking process capability
  • Manage production performance against service, cost, quality and efficiency KPIs
  • Develop and manage operational budgets, cost centres and manufacturing plans
  • Lead capital planning and provide operational input into capital projects to maximise post‑implementation outcomes
  • Ensure strong quality outcomes, with products consistently manufactured to specification and customer expectation
  • Drive delivery performance through improved flexibility, cycle times and changeover efficiency
  • Lead, engage and develop manufacturing teams, embedding a performance and improvement culture
  • Support change initiatives and build organisational capability through effective leadership and communication
  • Champion health, safety, quality and environmental standards across all areas of responsibility

About You

You’re a people‑focused manufacturing leader who combines operational discipline with a continuous improvement mindset. You enjoy developing teams, solving problems on the floor, and balancing short‑term delivery with longer‑term capability building.
You’ll bring:
  • Experience leading teams in a manufacturing environment, ideally within FMCG or a similar operational setting
  • Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, operational improvement and change leadership
  • Experience managing budgets, operational plans and cost control
  • Exposure to continuous improvement methodologies (such as Lean or Six Sigma)
  • A collaborative leadership style with strong relationship‑building and communication skills
  • Strong computer literacy, and ability to learn new systems
  • Confidence working across safety, quality and environmental management systems
  • Tertiary qualifications in engineering, science, food technology, management or a related discipline will be well regarded

Why Asahi Beverages

At Asahi Beverages, we're passionate about crafting more than just drinks - we craft moments of connection, celebration, and shared enjoyment. We bring together a diverse portfolio of iconic beverage brands, a commitment to quality, and a drive to constantly innovate. Headquartered in Melbourne and with facilities right across Australia and New Zealand, you’ll find Asahi is a place where talent is nurtured, and ambition is rewarded. If you’re ready to toast your future, we’re ready to meet you.

Asahi Beverages

About Asahi Beverages

Asahi Beverages is one of the leading beverage companies in Australia and New Zealand, producing an extensive range of alcohol and non-alcohol beverages.

Our non-alcohol portfolio extends across soft drinks, mixers, mineral water, water, juice, tea, energy and sports drinks, with iconic and well-loved brands such as Schweppes, Cool Ridge and Pepsi.

Our alcohol portfolio includes both local craft and international beers such as Asahi Super Dry and Peroni, as well as cider, ready-to-drink and spirits brands.

Asahi Beverages formed in 2014 through the integration of the Schweppes Australia and Asahi Premium Beverages businesses in Australia and Independent Liquor in New Zealand. Our Group also includes The Better Drinks Co, a NZ based juice and organic soft drink business and craft brewer, Mountain Goat.

We work in a category with rapidly changing consumer wants and needs, which fuels our entrepreneurial spirit and our thirst for category-growing innovation. Our company has grown enormously over the past decade, and as we continue to evolve, we’re looking for people who thrive on collaborating, connection and building high performing teams and who are agile, adventurous and always willing to jump in and give it their all.

It’s an exciting time to join our company. We believe that with us, you’ll get the experiences you need to develop to the next stage of your career as together we build the Asahi Beverages and the beverages category of the future.

Keen to explore our current vacant positions? Visit our Careers Page:

https://www.asahi.com.au/careers/careers

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Southbank, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
asahi.com.au
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