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This Australian subsidiary of a global organisation is a leading supplier of product throughout the Pacific Islands, operating across the full value chain - including maritime transport, terminal management, distribution, and last-mile delivery - ensuring end-to-end product safety, quality and consistency. The company services major manufacturers, hotels, hospitals, retailers, and government agencies, as well as domestic consumers, to provide clean, affordable, and accessible product. The Head of Operations is a critical leadership role responsible for ensuring the sustained performance, safety, and reliability of the multi-country distribution network. Reporting to the CEO Pacific, the position leads all operational, technical, maintenance, and safety functions to deliver the groups operational, financial, and strategic objectives. The role drives day-to-day operational excellence across regional sites, ensuring production and distribution plans are met, safety standards upheld, and continuous improvement embedded across all teams. It provides leadership to functional heads in Operations, Maintenance, HSE, Asset Integrity, and Technical Assurancefostering collaboration, capability development, and a high-performance culture. This is a handson, commercially focused leadership position requiring strong technical acumen, operational discipline, and the ability to guide teams through transformation within a complex, multisite, and multicountry environment. This broad role has responsibility for Operations; Safety, Quality & Compliance; Continuous Improvement & Process Excellence; People & Culture; Financial & Commercial Accountability; and Transformation & Strategic Enablement. With a degree in Engineering or a related discipline, the successful candidate will be an accomplished operations leader with a strong background in operations, energy distribution, engineering, or complex multisite industrial environments. You will combine technical and commercial acumen with the ability to lead geographically dispersed teams, drive accountability, and deliver sustained performance improvement. You will be handson yet strategic, comfortable balancing daytoday operational discipline with longterm capability development, transformation, and continuous improvement. A confident communicator and people leader, you will inspire teams to uphold the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational integrity. This role will require travel to the Pacific Islands of 1 week per month or 2 weeks bimonthly. If the prospect of an operations leadership role managing the Pacific region holds genuine appeal and your experience and industry alignment (Dangerous Goods) is commensurate with the above, please call Mathew Newman at 0407 798 228 for a confidential discussion. Your application will include the following questions: Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia? #J-18808-Ljbffr