Production Team Leader

As a Production Team Leader, you will play a vital role in enhancing the opportunities of our employees with a disability, while ensuring commercial outcomes are achieved. With your natural ability to lead with empathy, you will oversee and guide employees that we support, to meet their employment goals, ensuring their work aligns with their skills while delivering exceptional production outcomes.

Based in our Thomastown (Keon Park) Site you will be scheduled to work Mondays to Fridays between 8.30am to 4pm, permanent full-time position. You will lead and inspire our supported employees in the production and assembly of general and food packaging from our commercial partners within the community.

Other daily tasks are to:

• Motivate and mentor a diverse workforce, fostering a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with WHS policies and procedures.
• Supervise and guide employees that we support to meet commercial outcomes.
• Promote positive behaviour and a collaborative team culture.
• Conduct skills training, assessments, and performance appraisals in collaboration with Employment Coaches.
• Ensure production meets customer expectations regarding quality, delivery timeframes and business requirements.

What benefits can Endeavour offer you? 

• Salary Packaging Benefits: Package up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax-free, increasing your take-home pay. 

• Entertainment Benefits: Use up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income for entertainment expenses, such as meals and holiday accommodation. 

• Employee Assistance Program: Access to a free and confidential counselling service for you and your family members. 

• Wide range of training opportunities to help you grow professionally and develop your skills in a supportive and dynamic environment. 
• Onsite canteen and parking available in this location in Thomastown.

What you can bring to the team 

• Previous experience in a production environment with a proven ability to coordinate projects and delegate activities to a diverse team.
• Experience in disability support will be highly regarded but not essential

• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to ensure clear and concise information is presented to the team.
• A genuine commitment to the purpose and values of the organisation with a natural empathetic nature.

• Hold or be willing to obtain a Working with Children Check, NDIS Worker Screening Check (Yellow Card), National Criminal History Check (Fit2Work), and an open Driver’s License.

Endeavour Foundation supports people with disabilities to live, learn, work and flourish according to their own interests and priorities. We are people working together, making possibilities a reality for people with a disability, and for people seeking employment, education and training opportunities. We focus on ability, on dreams, goals and potential.  

To join Endeavour Foundation!  If this is the opportunity for you, click ‘Apply’. We look forward to hearing from you!