Packaging Team Leader

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key purpose of this role is to lead the shift based team/s in the execution of the production plan to the required performance criteria.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation

• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards

• Manages shift in accordance with VPO tools and principles 

• Manages shift to achieve production plan within the allowed costs

• Co-ordinate scheduled maintenance and autonomous operations

• Monitor and co-ordinate production processes to within budget

• Interpret and implement the production plan for shift

• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment

• Build and foster relationships with customers and suppliers

• Manages shift in accordance with VPO tools and principles 

• Manages shift to achieve production plan within the allowed costs

• Co-ordinate scheduled maintenance and autonomous operations

• Monitor and co-ordinate production processes to within budget

• Interpret and implement the production plan for shift

• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment

• Build and foster relationships with customers and suppliers

• Ensure application of admin systems and procedures

• Administer conditions of employment for team members

• Contribute to self and team development

• Prepare and control budgets

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Be able to work shifts

• Ability to make decisions

• Be a team-player as well as an effective leader

• Attention to detail, Computer literate

• Bias for action/comfortable with initiating action

• Able to lead meetings and make presentations

• Analytical and systematic thinking ability, to enable effective problem solving

• Sound communication skills

• Ability to manage people as well as ability to drive performance through the VPO tools

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum

• High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment  

Minimum Requirements:

• Engineering Degree

• Minimum 2 years in FMCG environment

Additional information:

• Band: VIII​