Chief Operating Officer - HDPE & PVC Pipe & Fittings
Search Works ·www.searchworks.com.au
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This is a rare opportunity to step into a COO role with genuine scope — overseeing manufacturing, fabrication, supply chain, quality, and maintenance across a multi-site business that produces HDPE and PVC pipe and fittings for mining, infrastructure, and plumbing markets. If you've led operations in a complex industrial environment and you're ready to shape how a business runs at an executive level, this is the role.
About the Business
A privately held Australian manufacturer with established operations across Western Australia and Queensland. The business serves demanding end markets — mining, civil infrastructure, and plumbing — and is in a period of focused operational growth. Turnover exceeds $50M. The culture is values-led, with a strong emphasis on safety, sustainability, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Be Doing
Applications are being managed by SearchWorks. To express interest or have a confidential conversation, contact Olly at SearchWorks via searchworks.com.au or apply directly through this ad. All applications are handled with strict confidentiality.
About the Business
A privately held Australian manufacturer with established operations across Western Australia and Queensland. The business serves demanding end markets — mining, civil infrastructure, and plumbing — and is in a period of focused operational growth. Turnover exceeds $50M. The culture is values-led, with a strong emphasis on safety, sustainability, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Be Doing
- Executive oversight of manufacturing, fabrication, supply chain, quality, and maintenance functions across WA and QLD sites
- Lead operational strategy and future-state capability planning — process mapping, systems improvement, workflow integration
- Drive performance, productivity, and operational consistency across the full business
- Lead and develop a senior team of operational managers (Production, Supply Chain, Fabrication, Quality)
- Partner with the CEO and CFO on transformation, growth initiatives, and investment decisions
- Champion safety, risk management, and operational wellbeing across all sites
- Executive-level experience leading multi-site manufacturing, fabrication, or industrial operations
- Proven track record of operational transformation and large-scale process improvement
- Strong people leadership — you build capable teams and hold managers to account
- Experience in organisations with $50M+ turnover
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (Engineering, Business, Operations Management or similar)
- Willingness to travel regularly between Perth and Brisbane
- C-suite position with real influence over how the business operates and grows
- A senior leadership team that's invested in getting this right
- Genuine autonomy to build systems, structures, and capability
- Organisation that backs sustainability and innovation — not just lip service
- Perth or Brisbane base with flexibility on location
Applications are being managed by SearchWorks. To express interest or have a confidential conversation, contact Olly at SearchWorks via searchworks.com.au or apply directly through this ad. All applications are handled with strict confidentiality.
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The Chief Operating Officer - HDPE & PVC Pipe & Fittings role with Search Works is based in Perth, WA, AU.
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