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  • Posted: Aug 22, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • International Breweries Plc was incorporated in December 1971 by its founder and first Chairman, Dr. Lawrence Omole under the name International Breweries Limited. The Company commenced production of its flagship product Trophy Lager in December 1978 with an installed capacity of 200,000 hectoliters per annum. Following the increasing demand for its produ...
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    Packaging Manager

    Job Requisition ID: 30082266

    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.

    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.

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    Utilities Operator

    Key purpose:

    The primary role of the Utilities Process Operator is the operation of the utilities steam plant and the execution of quality control checks and monitoring. The Utilities Process Operator will be responsible for the monitoring and operation of the utilities plant.

    Key roles and responsibilities

    • Monitor boiler performance
    • Monitor processes
    • Apply core competencies to achieve optimum plant and process performance
    • Manage processes across Utilities plant

    Minimum Requirements:

    • Min. of B.Sc/HND in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering
    • 2 years SKAP
    • PC literate ( Microsoft/ SAP)
    • 2 years experience in preferably a brewing environment

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    Brewing Operator

    The Key Purpose of this role is to operate and maintain defined brewing equipment and related processes to achieve optimal effectiveness.

    Key Roles and Responsibilities:

    Operating and Process Control

    • Operating equipment in Brewing process areas according to VPO standards 
    • Constantly reviewing process performance against target, and recording short stops and correcting any out of controls using the VPO tools
    • Recording waste and movement of product on the appropriate documentation or information systems. Review trends to identify & resolve problems.

    Maintenance of Plant and Equipment

    • Carrying out autonomous operations as defined for the process areas. 
    • Identify defective plant, and report these through to the Process Artisan or Team Leader to assist with resolution.
    • Assisting the Process Artisan/Machine specialist in executing running repairs on shift.

    Quality Control and Analysis

    • Carrying out the required quality checks and analyses and recording the results on the appropriate information system.
    • The list of quality checks to be executed is contained in the work instructions.
    • React to the results using the VPO tools supplied.

    Communication

    • Actively participate in shift meetings, asking questions to test understanding and contributing suggestions. making use of the action logs to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities.
    • Fully understand the team Dream and contribute in achieving it. 
    • Make use of relevant communication media (e.g. shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
    • Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality and maintenance are communicated.

    Problem Solving

    • Where problems occur, use the VPO problem solving tools to resolve and record the issues.

    Key Attributes and Competencies:

    • A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in a fast-paced environment.
    • A team player
    • High level of initiative and energy

    Minimum Requirements:

    • Min. of OND/B.Sc./HND or equivalent in the Sciences or Engineering.
    • Experience in Brewing process Environment

    Method of Application

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