- Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers and Onistsa, Anambra
- Job Type: Full-time
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About International Breweries Plc
International Breweries Plc – Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients.
Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria.
We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:
- Packaging Manager- Rivers
- Process Control Technician- Rivers
- Packaging Team Leader- Anambra
1. Packaging Manager
Summary
- The key purpose of this role is to manage and co-ordinate the Packaging Department in order to achieve the required standard of product quality and output in the most efficient and effective manner.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Manage plant, process and systems:
- Translates and implements packaging, manufacturing and business strategies across the packaging hall.
- Ensure that all team members are fully conversant with the VPO.
- Develop and drive implementation plans to progress our VPO Principles / agreed VPO Pillar Blocks in order to sustain results.
- Ensures conformance to Plant and Packaging specifications and standards.
- Drives maintenance integrity to maximize equipment availability and reliability while ensuring engineering integrity and close partnership with Maintenance Manager.
- Optimises process capability.
- Leads packaging projects as required.
- Coordinates Packaging logistics, shift patterns and run strategies to maximize GLY, FTE productivity and overall supply reliability.
- Packaging Productivity.
- Proactively control fixed and variable costs.
- Minimise waste.
- Manage, measure and monitor packaging effectiveness through: Packaging efficiency, Trade quality, Raw material usage rate, Waste through beer loss
- IQMS parameters.
- Production costs per Hl to global benchmarks.
- Maintenance cost per Hl to global benchmarks.
- Responsible for the overall reliability of the packaging hall.
Team Leadership:
- Lead the packaging team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction.
- Lead the development of packaging team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members.
- Conduct regular Packaging team goal review sessions, and conduct regular one-on-one and performance reviews.
- Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members.
- Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the packaging team.
Safety and Housekeeping:
- Ensure that the packaging team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirements when carrying out their tasks
- Ensure implementation of the appropriate SAB and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping
- Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive the appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits
- Where unsafe work practices have been identified, the packaging manager is responsible for correcting this
- Ensures adherence to PPE policy
- General production housekeeping
- Safe maintenance practices audited
- Ensure adherence to the VPO safety pillar in the packaging department with regular coaching and OWD’s done
- Ensures adherence to SHE system requirements
- Drive Safety and legal compliance in the Packaging Hall.
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Minimum Requirements
- BSc Degree in Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Packaging Management with deep expertise in asset management
- Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line would be highly advantageous
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing people
- Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall (financial, operational, people)
- Demonstrated experience in leading VPO in a Brewery environment.
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality
- Demonstrated understanding of relevant legislation, specifically health and safety and labour legislation
- Proven experience in managing Industrial Relations within the workforce
- Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance
- Leadership ability (ability to lead the packaging hall)
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to develop and control budgets
- Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop people
- Ability to manage complex projects of a significant amount
- Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum
- High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment.
Additional Information:
- Band: VI.
Application Closing Date
30th August, 2025.
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2. Process Control Technician
Summary
- The Key Purpose of this role is to perform optimization/modification of process control systems.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Interacts daily with the production teams to resolve quality equipment related problems
- Assists in the implementation of plant and process improvement projects
- Standby duties be available for call out when required
- Carries out specialised maintenance work in on quality equipment calibration and set up work, complex component replacement, etc
- Ensures availability of specified critical spares and recommendations on maintenance regimes
- Verification/validation of quality equipment operation
- Uses SAP, other systems and reports as appropriate to analyse information in order to identify deviations from process capability relating to quality equipment
- Sigga / SAP maintenance schedules management compliance
- Problem Terminator compliance (previously known as 5 WHY)
- Develop and maintain equipment performance report (ERI)
- Develop and maintain SOPs / SWI’s in Acadia
- Support in management of breakdown of equipment
- Instrument set up NPD support
- Supplier liaison (SPP)
- Supports development of training material and coaches operational teams to ensure optimal operation of quality equipment
- Provides specialist subject matter expertise and diagnostic skills in problem solving
- Provides expert information to assist in compilation of maintenance budgets (including spares stock holding)
- Continuously improves technical competence in order to ensure that latest thinking on operating and maintaining the quality equipment is applied
- Ensure a safe, healthy and risk free working environment
- Work in teams, support VPO initiatives.
Minimum Requirements
- Min N6 / National Diploma and Trade Test Qualification in Instrumentation and Control
- Minimum of 3 years instrumentation equipment maintenance and PLC experience advantageous
- Good knowledge of SAP and excel.
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Concern for attention to detail and accuracy
- Team player
- Good administration & problem solving skills
- Good technical knowledge
- Good self management practices.
Additional Information:
- Band: X.
3. Packaging Team Leader
Summary
- The key purpose of this role is to maintain a safe and healthy working environment.
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Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards Optimize Production Performance & Processes
- Manage shift in accordance with VPO tools and principles
- Manage 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
- Build and foster relationships with customers and suppliers.
- Administrative Duties
- Ensure application of admin systems and procedures
- Administer conditions of employment for team members
- Contribute to self and team development
- Prepare and control budgets
- Initiate and Facilitate Team Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Apply problem solving and decision making techniques and principles.
- Facilitate team problem solving Manage Human Resources
- Develop employees
- Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate.
- Manage and apply people policies and practices.
- Optimize Team Performance
- Facilitate effective team dynamics
- Implement performance management and OPR processes
- To lead the shift based team/s in the execution of the production plan to the required performance criteria (QCDSM)
- Shift Team Leader, Packaging.
Minimum Requirements
- BSc / HND or equivalent in a relevant course
- Minimum of 2 years in FMCG environment.
- Experience in a packaging process environment.
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Experience in managing and running a high speed packaging line
- Ability to make decisions
- Team-player as well as an effective leader
- Attention to detail, Computer literate
- Bias for action/comfortable with initiating action
- Analytical and systematic thinking ability, to enable effective problem solving
- Sound communication skills(verbal, written, presentation)
- 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.
