Design - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
With over two decades of working experience across Project Management/Engineering and General Management positions in the food and beverage industry across AU, NZ and international markets, Manaia Business Project Services was born in 2017. My vision and passion is to leverage the wealth of knowledge I have learned to provide focused business partner services to support and deliver sustainable commercial outcomes through the efficient execution of your business projects.Our skills and experience include a broad range of key areas tailored to your business needs such as:- Strategic planning- Project directorship/management- Executive management- Greenfield start-up- Building and systems concept design- Procurement strategies and negotiation- Business Process tools scoping and execution- Operations management- Sales proposals and client interface- Drafting - Concept layout to detailed drawingsKey Positions and Projects:- National Engineering Manager - $72mil of capital expenditure across 5 business transformation projects. Including ASRS for baking products, manufacturing consolidation and closure sites across Australia delivering a $25mil EBIT benefit.- National Engineering Manager - $25mil of capital expenditure across a portfolio of 130 business improvement projects.- General Manager Operations - Greenfield Business and factory build and start-up of a NZ$90mil commodity dairy plant in New Zealand where Michael was responsible for the governance, factory build, operational and logistics set-up, regulatory certifications and staff recruitment, training and operational readiness. This start-up was the first new start-up to achieve profitability in year 1 of operation.- General Manager Operations - Brownfield factory build and start-up of a new NZ$25mil UHT facility in New Zealand.- Plant Manager - Greenfield factory build and start-up in Saudi Arabia where Michael was responsible for the logistics and liquid packaging (Juice and UHT) portfolios (US$40mil) of a 75,000sqm facility, operational and logistics set-up, and staff recruitment, training and operational readiness.- Project Manager - Scoping and execution of a 24mtr High Bay Automated Storage and Retrieval system for ambient products In Saudi Arabia.- Project Manager - Scoping and execution of US$100mil UHT supply agreement encompassing packaging equipment (8 filling lines over 5 years) and associated material volumes in Saudi Arabia.