Packaging Manager

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 and manage the Packaging Department (People, Plant, Process and Systems) in order to achieve the required standard of product quality and output in the most efficient and effective manner.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Implement and Comply with safety, health and environmental legislation and procedures
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Develop employees.
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate.
• Manage and apply people policies and practices. Develop employees
• Manage talent and pipeline in packaging  
• Facilitate effective team dynamics.
• Implement performance management and OPR processes
• Communicate effectively in the workplace.
• Manages packaging in accordance with VPO tools and principles 
• Monitor and manage production processes to within budgets
• Optimise production plan and shifts across the hall, aligned to agreed Run Strategies
• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment.
• Build and foster relationships with customers and suppliers.
• Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
• Ensure maintenance integrity
• Optimize process capability
• Lead packaging projects
• Co-ordinate packaging logistics
• Support engineering integrity
• Conduct administration
• Lead the VPO drive
• Implement Technical Strategies
• Implement packaging Capex projects 

Key Attributes and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal communication skills.
• Team leadership skills.
• Have a concern for standards.
• Have a concern for meeting and exceeding standards (achievement).
• Planning skills involving budgets, costing and projects.
• Ability to make decisions
• Attention to detail
• Bias for action/comfortable with initiating action
• Able to lead meetings and make presentations
• Analytical and systematic thinking ability, to enable and facilitate effective problem solving
• Ability to manage people as well as ability to drive performance
• High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high pressure environment 

Minimum Requirements 

• Min – BSc or Engineer degree   
• Min – 3-6 months on the job training Ideal – 6-9 months on the job training
• 2-3 years as Unit Manager or Packaging Engineer

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