Job Description

• Supervise integrated rotary rinsing, filling, capping, labeling, and shrink wrapping operations with end to end accountability for line output.
• Provide front line leadership to maintain continuous line balancing, product quality, food hygiene, and operator safety across shifts.
• Drive operational stability by promptly identifying line disruptions, managing root cause recovery, and ensuring accurate operational documentation.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Supervise integrated rotary rinsing, filling, capping, labeling, and shrink wrapping operations to meet daily production targets safely and efficiently.
• Allocate shift tasks according to operator competence and workload, ensuring critical control points remain fully staffed without unsafe shortcuts.
• Conduct structured shift handovers and maintain a visible floor presence to monitor line performance and respond immediately to operational issues.
• Respond rapidly to production stoppages, line imbalances, and quality deviations, collaborating with maintenance and support teams to stabilize operations.
• Enforce strict adherence to approved standard operating procedures, hygiene rules, machine setting limits, and personal protective equipment requirements.
• Investigate root causes of downtime and process deviations, ensuring agreed corrective and preventive actions are executed and recorded.
• Compile complete, traceable, and legible shift records, including output tallies, machine parameters, quality test results, and stoppage logs.
• Promote cost and resource efficiency by tracking utility consumption and minimizing packaging material, ingredient, and product waste.

Skills

• Rotary filler line balancing and high speed packaging flow coordination.
• Line stoppage reduction and rapid root cause troubleshooting.
• Shift output reporting and production log verification.
• Operator management, work allocation, and performance coaching.
• Proficiency with PLC/HMI production interfaces, digital logs, and reporting systems.

Education Qualifications & Experience

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or Higher Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Food Science and Technology, or Operations Management.
• Ordinary Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Recognized UBTEB, TVET, or accredited technical, safety, quality, or supervisory certificates paired with extensive industrial line experience.
• Equivalent accredited qualifications in related technical or operational disciplines obtained outside Uganda.

Experience

• At least 3 years of experience supervising high speed liquid bottling lines.