Job Description

• Manage the end to end operations of vertical baggers, checkweighers, flow wrappers, and carton packing lines to deliver high quality snack packaging.
• Drive departmental performance by balancing lines, maximizing overall equipment effectiveness, and eliminating avoidable operational waste, delays, and safety risks.
• Provide hands on leadership to line teams while upholding strict safety, hygiene, quality specifications, and regulatory standards.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations across vertical baggers, checkweighers, flow wrappers, and carton packing lines to ensure snack packaging targets are met safely and efficiently.
• Allocate shift tasks according to technician and operator competence, ensuring full coverage of critical operational, quality, and safety routines.
• Enforce rigorous compliance with approved standard operating procedures, hygiene rules, machine settings, and safety protocols without informal bypasses.
• Lead rapid troubleshooting and root cause analysis during equipment breakdowns, quality defects, or material losses to restore normal operations.
• Track and analyze packaging line performance metrics, including overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), scrap rates, downtime, and line balance.
• Coordinate with maintenance, quality assurance, warehousing, and processing teams to align packaging schedules, maintenance windows, and material flows.
• Oversee the completion of legible, traceable, and accurate production logs, equipment check sheets, handover reports, and incident documentation.
• Champion workplace health, safety, and food hygiene standards, strictly enforcing personal protective equipment use, lockout tagout procedures, and hazard reporting.

Skills

• High speed automated packaging line management and line balancing
• Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) tracking and process loss reduction
• Root cause analysis and operational problem solving on packaging machinery
• Supervisory leadership, shift scheduling, and team performance management
• Digital interface competence including PLC/HMI machine screens and production reporting systems

Education Qualifications & Experience

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Management, Industrial or Production Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Food Science and Technology, or Operations Management
• Higher Diploma or Ordinary Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, or Production Engineering, Packaging Technology, or a directly related technical field combined with extensive operational experience
• Recognized UBTEB, TVET, or equivalent vocational and trade qualifications in engineering, packaging maintenance, or technical supervisory management
• Relevant professional certifications in quality management, occupational health and safety, or packaging operations
• Equivalent accredited international qualifications in packaging technology or related engineering disciplines

Experience

• 5+ years managing automated packaging departments in FMCG plants.