Mitch Steunenberg

Develop and lead Safety & Wellbeing team across Asia Pacific, encompassing four heavily automated manufacturing sites, three within Australia, one in New Zealand.

• Provide expert advice on WHS matters to board and executive leadership.
• Set and deliver improvement on KPI's, improving results sustainably across the business.
• Lead direct team on safety initiatives encompassing multiple departments enterprise wide
• Leveraged skills to analysis and generate executive support to drive improvements
• Updated compliance framework to meet ISO 45001 standards, a significant shift from the prior ways of working
• Introduced new early intervention program across all sites enabling improved management of risk and team member engagement

Responsible for running a $900M per annum, heavily automated food manufacturing site in Victoria. Nine direct reports being senior leaders from each department, 500 team members, 300 agency staff producing 2.2m units per week, serving 512 supermarkets. Accountable for site P&L including $52m labour budget annually, $4.6m engineering spend budget, $15.2m profit annual target. Drive results across safety, quality, cost and profit.

• Developed and implemented operational strategies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and maximise customer value proposition
• Lead site through COVID 19 pandemic, maintaining strong performance through unprecedented headwinds such as absenteeism, strict health regulations, frequent supply chain interruptions and cost challenges
• Built on and sustained strategic relationships with customers
• Mitigated business risks by leveraging team collaboration, working closely with internal management team and external stakeholders

A site based role at the company's Truganina facility. The heavily automated meat processing and distribution site processes $900m of product annually, services 512 supermarkets weekly and employs over 450 team members.

• the role provided advice and support to the senior leadership team and is responsible for developing and implementing the site health and safety plan and initiatives
• Ensured compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, industry standards. Had frequent regulator body interaction
• Lead key risk exposures such as contractor safety management and automation and equipment safety optimisation
• Establish and improve safety culture through promotion of health and safety representatives with communication across a diverse workforce
• Developed annual goals for each department based on data driven trends and analysis.

Based at the Laverton Chilled Distribution Centre (CDC) the role provide analysis, advise and coach the senior and front-line operations management team on all matters relating to safety. The CDC was a 24/7 operation, have a footprint of 45,000m2, containing three temperature controlled chambers and services 249 supermarkets across Victoria and Tasmania. The DC employs over 700 team members, handled on average of 1.8m cartons per week.

• Developed comprehensive action plans for addressing any non-compliance issues identified during inspections and incident investigations
• Lead hazard assessments, safety improvement projects and monitoring to identify risk exposures, corrective actions, and provided training to senior management on safety leadership
• Oversee and lead initiatives to improve workers compensation performance

The People & Culture Graduate program offers four, six-month rotations within the business partner as well as the centre of excellence teams.

• 1st Rotation: Reward Team: Conducted position grading and remuneration reviews, participated in organisation structure design projects, assisted with the development of a revised enterprise wide short-term incentive program
• 2nd Rotation: Employee Relations. Provided advice to the business across all brands on all matters relating to active industrial instruments, assisted drafting a new supermarkets Agreement, covering in excess of 80,000 team members. Assisting with MSD process and PABO application and mitigating the risk of industrial action. Participated in BOOT challenge response for approved Supermarkets EA
• 3rd Rotation: P&C Business Partnering - Corporate. Provided policy and procedural advice to line managers and team members. Supported performance reviews, managed international and domestic relocations. Facilitated training and induction activities for multiple client groups
• 4th Rotation: P&C Business Partnering - Logistics. Provided support to salaried team members in the store support centre as well as team members working in distribution centres across Australia. Key resource for insourcing project of third party distribution centres into Coles.