Background

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 position

The Key Purpose of this position 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:

Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment

• Implement and comply with safety, health and environmental legislation and procedures
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Identification and closure of unsafe practices and conditions through SIO’s
• Adherence to PPE policies and standards
• Safe maintenance practice compliance & audits
• 5S standard adherence
• Autonomous operation tools in a safe and good working order
• Safety inspections conducted
• Ensure staff medical compliance
• Compliance to environmental policies

Manage Human Resources

• Develop employees.
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate.
• Manage and apply people policies and practices. Develop employees
• Manage talent and pipeline in packaging

Optimise Team Performance

• Facilitate effective team dynamics.
• Implement performance management and OPR processes
• Communicate effectively in the workplace.

Manage plant, process and systems

• 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

Translate and implement packaging, manufacturing and business strategies

• Lead the VPO drive
• Implement Technical Strategies
• Implement packaging Capex projects

Packaging Performance

• Maintenance and cleaning standard adherence
• Packaging efficiencies
• Quality
• Container and material losses
• Packaging Beer Loss
• GOP compliance
• VPO implementation
• Productivity
• Maintenance ZBB

Plant reliability

• Packaging plant reliability
• Asset management indicators

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

• BSc or Engineer degree

Training:

• Min 3-6 months on the job training; Ideal 6-9 months on the job training

Experience:

• 2-3 years as Unit Manager or Packaging Engineer
• Checked out Packaging Traineeship (Advantageous)

• Implement and comply with safety, health and environmental legislation and procedures
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Identification and closure of unsafe practices and conditions through SIO’s
• Adherence to PPE policies and standards
• Safe maintenance practice compliance & audits
• 5S standard adherence
• Autonomous operation tools in a safe and good working order
• Safety inspections conducted
• Ensure staff medical compliance
• Compliance to environmental policies
• 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
• Maintenance and cleaning standard adherence
• Packaging efficiencies
• Quality
• Container and material losses
• Packaging Beer Loss
• GOP compliance
• VPO implementation
• Productivity
• Maintenance ZBB
• Packaging plant reliability
• Asset management indicators

• BSc or Engineer degree
• 2-3 years as Unit Manager or Packaging Engineer
• Min 3-6 months on the job training; Ideal 6-9 months on the job training
• Checked out Packaging Traineeship (Advantageous)