Plate Processing and Despatch Team Leader

BlueScope is an Australian-born, global success story, spanning 18 countries, with a team of over 14,000 people. We’re driven by innovation and are proud that the technologies in our products and brands, like COLORBOND® steel, inspire and protect everything from hospitals and bridges to stadiums and homes.

The Opportunity

Come and discover the opportunity to join our PPAD (Plate Processing & Despatch) team at our Port Kembla Manufacturing facility as a Plate Processing and Despatch Team Leader. As a part of the broader Australian Steel Products portfolio, the PPAD team delivers superior plate products and innovative solutions and services to our export and domestic customers.

As an integral part of our steel making operations, the PPAD business is the final step in the manufacturing of our superior steel plate products at our Port Kembla site. Plate is received from the Plate Rolling Mill and is cut, finished and despatched, to our export and domestic customers.

You’ll work collaboratively with the team as the key point of contact for the shift operations team. Coordinating the despatch operation, you’ll liase directly with Logistics and Customer Service, ensuring the delivery of exceptional performance, whilst championing a safety-first culture.

In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll work a 12-hour rotating day and night shift with opportunities for overtime. When you join our team, we also offer access to our Employee Assistance provider and other health and well-being programs.

What Will You Do?

You will demonstrate your leadership skills, whilst building effective relationships, both internally and externally. You will also:

• successfully contribute to a safe working environment
• work with the despatch team to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and mitigate risk and strive for business improvements
• leading and supporting the shift operations to achieve business targets and striving for on time delivery for our customers
• leading, providing guidance and enhancing our manufacturing capability
• coaching, mentoring and developing the team to enhance capabilities

More About You

As an enthusiastic and motivated leader, you will demonstrate a willingness to develop your team in achieving success. You will bring:

• a commitment to the safety and wellbeing of yourself and others
• a demonstrated ability to lead, coach and develop others to enhance capability
• exposure or experience in the operation of a continuous industrial process
• an ability to influence peers and colleagues to meet operational requirements, scheduling and people demands
• enthusiasm and initiative while working with competing priorities

Why BlueScope

As BlueScope continues to go from strength to strength, a career with us provides you with the opportunity to grow and be rewarded. At BlueScope, you will:

• create and deliver innovative solutions that drive transformation in our business
• make an impact that really does shape the world we live in
• keep growing through continuous learning and development opportunities
• enjoy the sense of belonging that comes from working with people who genuinely look out for one another

At BlueScope, our people are our strength, and we don’t say that lightly. We want our people to be successful, and to be safe. We offer work-life flexibility through our B-flex program and make sure our inclusive work environment welcomes people of all backgrounds. We’re passionate about driving sustainability outcomes that matter to our communities, including action on climate and our 2050 net zero goal. And we’ll do this through Our Purpose: We create and inspire smart solutions in steel, strengthening our communities for the future.

Come and discover us at bluescope.com/life-at-bluescope/careers. 

Together we can make a world of difference.

Applications close Friday, 31st May 2024.