Packaging Operator

Position:

Organization: Heineken Breweries Ethiopia

Not Specified

Job Purpose:

The Packaging Operator will ensure the safety agenda in the daily job. Operate and execute in a qualitative way the process and product-related tasks while improving the key performance indicators and production losses, leading to a safe working environment on machine/area.

Job Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or with related field of study

  • Experience: 0 - 2 years’ of experience, preferably in beverage/logistic operation shop floor experience

  • Location: Bedele 

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Works in line with the defined and implemented safety, environmental, and food safety standards. Following the 5S, Housekeeping and HACCP are related to the workplace.

  • Identify the safety risks in their department.

  • Apply LSR principles, including do's and don'ts.

  • Take action where unsafe situations or behaviors occur, give feedback, and report to the relevant people.

  • Safely shut down and start up equipment for the yearly overhaul.

  • Act in compliance with HEINEKEN and local safety rules, standards, and procedures.

  • Identify water and energy losses in their area of responsibility and suggest solutions.

  • Implement good environmental practices.

  • Make all the quality checks in line with the standards and procedures on simple packaging machines.

  • Perform quality and food safety checks in line with standards and safety procedures.

  • Identify quality issues in their area.

  • Take part in improvement actions to prevent quality issues from arising and contribute to quality-related analyses (e.g., DAS, RCFAs, problem-solving).

  • Clean and disinfect to the expected level in line with recipe standards, SOPs, and CILT.

  • Executes the tagging process, CILT, and applies problem-solving tools. Participates and starts leading the improvement teams.

  • Use the digital tools available to report the information required for the DCS (e.g., shift handover list, downtime reports, shift performance information).

  • Restore and sustain basic conditions using the shop floor excellence tools displayed in digital applications (SOP, OPL, CILT activities, and 5S).

  • Apply APM team methodology, steps 0-3.

  • Take part in TPM improvement activities related to safety, quality, the environment, and performance losses in their area (BDA, MSR, Kaizen, RCFA)

  • Identify losses in the operation (extract, water, energy, material losses, etc.).

  • Executes all the packaging operations on simple machines in line with the valid standards. Manage documentation and reporting for the working area.

  • Operate the equipment according to demand and seasonality.

  • Perform basic standards for the packaging process in their own area (all planned and routine activities – sampling, cleaning, start up and shutdown according to Standard Operating Procedures, etc. – and machine processes).

  • Operates the simple packaging machines. Executes basic maintenance tasks according to standards 

  • Safely operate equipment in line with specifications and demand and ensure delivery On Time In Full.

  • Captures and interprets performance data and executes corrective actions

  • Restore and sustain basic conditions using the shop floor (SOP, OPL, CILT activities, and 5S).

  • Apply tagging and de-tagging, prioritize the tags, and eliminate equipment anomalies.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply through: https://theheinekencompany-rmk.jobs.hr.cloud.sap/job-invite/159887/
Job Requirements Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or with related field of study with relevant work experience Duties and Responsibilities - Works in line with the defined and implemented safety, environmental, and food safety standards. - Following the 5S, Housekeeping and HACCP are related to the workplace. - Identify the safety risks in their department. - Apply LSR principles, including do's and don'ts. - Take action where unsafe situations or behaviors occur, give feedback, and report to the relevant people. - Implement good environmental practices. How to Apply Click the apply button below

Deadline: Jun 23, 2026, 12:00 AM

Location: Bedele

Amount: 1