Urgent Vacancy – Senior Bakery Supervisor/Bakery Production Manager

Goodman Fielder Papua New Guinea is one of PNG’s largest food companies, manufacturing and distributing high-quality Flour, Stock Feed, Rice, Snacks and Bakery products throughout the country. Well known products and brands include Flame Flour, Flame Stock feed, Flame Oil & Sugar, Bilas Bread, Skel Rice, Twisties snacks, Arthurs Pies and the Meadow Lea range.

At GFI, we are about making food better for everyone.

Our goal is to be the leading and most innovative food company with a mission to meet our customers’ needs for superior quality foods with brands that are trusted by families everywhere. We are the go-to source of consumer, shopper, and customer insights to help our customer and business partners succeed.

We are urgently seeking an experienced and results-driven Senior Bakery Supervisor/BakeryProduction Manager to lead our Bakery Department in POM. The successful candidate will oversee bakery production, staff performance, product quality, food safety, stock and wastage control, production planning, and operational efficiency, while ensuring high standards are maintained across the department.

Key Selection Criteria

The successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong leadership and people-management skills, including coaching, rostering, performance management, and team development.
• Proven ability to plan and coordinate daily bakery production to meet volume, quality, and delivery requirements.
• Strong understanding of food safety, hygiene, HACCP/GMP principles, and quality-control procedures.
• Ability to monitor raw materials, stock levels, yields, wastage, and production costs.
• Experience identifying and reducing product wastage, downtime, quality defects, and production inefficiencies.
• Ability to maintain high standards of product consistency, presentation, weight, quality, and freshness.
• Good understanding of bakery machinery and the ability to coordinate basic troubleshooting and maintenance requirements.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume production environment and meet tight deadlines.
• Competency in maintaining production records, stock records, reports, and other operational documentation.
• Strong commitment to workplace safety, food safety, housekeeping, and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to work early mornings, shifts, weekends, or public holidays where operationally required.

Key Qualifications

• Certificate, Diploma, or Trade Qualification in Baking, Pastry, Food Production, Hospitality, or a related discipline.
• Formal training in Food Safety, HACCP, GMP, or workplace health and safety will be highly regarded.
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in commercial or industrial bakery operations, preferably with supervisory or management responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading bakery production teams and managing day-to-day operations.
• Sound knowledge of commercial baking processes, ingredients, equipment, production planning, and quality standards.