What you'll do
- Oversee daily manufacturing operations during assigned shift to meet production targets and quality standards
- Ensure production mechanical equipment complies with good manufacturing practices and specifications
- Maintain compliance with Health and Safety and GEHSMS standards to ensure people safety
- Manage efficient conversion of raw materials to finished products while tracking key performance indicators and costs
- Monitor and lead Quality Assurance, GMP, HACCP, allergen, sanitation and housekeeping practices
- Ensure the team understands Quality requirements and takes appropriate QA actions
- Develop team talents through trainings, performance meetings, appraisals, coaching, and motivation
- Oversee equipment reliability to minimize downtime and coordinate workflows to achieve production schedules
- Provide solutions and handle labor requests related to production problems
- Identify opportunities to optimize production costs and processes
- Support new production projects by organizing trials, establishing SOPs, and coordinating trainings
- Schedule direct labor requirements weekly based on sales demand
- Communicate production information and reports to other departments
- Deploy SETs, Specialists, and Site Line leader roles to improve performance and maintain control standards
Key requirements
- 2+ years' experience
- Good Manufacturing Practices, HACCP, and Quality Assurance
- Health and Safety Compliance and GEHSMS standards
- Team Development and Coaching
- Production Scheduling and Equipment Reliability Management
- Project Management and SOP Development
- Computer proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Communication Skills, Decision Making
- Language Proficiency in English and Local Language
- Engineering / Food Science
About the job
Production Shift Manager will oversee daily manufacturing operations during a designated shift, ensuring production targets, quality standards, and safety protocols are consistently met across the assigned lines.
To ensure the right product quality in the market & that all production mechanical equipment is in the right condition to meet the good manufacturing practices and specifications
To ensure people safety & compliance with H&S and GEHSMS standards
To ensure the efficient and effective conversion of the credited raw materials to finished products, tracks key performance indicators/costs, anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of financial targets
To monitor and lead good Quality Assurance, GMP, HACCP, Allergen, sanitation and housekeeping practices. He or she will ensure the hourly team clearly understands Quality requirements and takes appropriate action for Q.A. decisions
To develop people and build talents (formal trainings, performance meetings, appraisals, coaching, motivation) so that they will be capable of producing the best product, in every bag and every bite & meet all the agreed KPI’s and human resources targets
To oversee and assure facility equipment reliability to minimize downtime and confront all the possible fluctuations, serve as a liaison with other teams in co-ordinating workflows within the plant to ensure that the daily production schedule will be attained
To give solutions, provide help and handle rising direct labour requests about whatever might cause a problem
To identify opportunities for optimising production cost and optimising the existing processes
To support the new production projects through organizing production trials, establishing SOPs and coordinate FLEs’ trainings
In charge of scheduling the direct labour requirements weekly basis according to the sales demand
To communicate all the production info & reports to all the other departments of the company
Continuous Improve Performance through deployment of SETs, Specialists & Site Line leader Roles: Make sure that Critical Control Processes are in place and operating, implement best practices, deliver technical training and maintain control standards
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering/food science or equivalent
2-4 years’ experience in similar roles (operations, food industries)
Results orientated & decision maker
Computer proficiency (Excel-Word-PowerPoint)
Developing and managing own agenda
Demonstrated front-line supervisory skills
Project management skills
Language skills: Proficient level of English, proficient level of local language
About the company
PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to team members on the front lines, we’re excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.
Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: Chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.
A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone’s welcome. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop and grow your skills for the future. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact on people and the planet.
Join us. Dare for Better.
About the company
PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to team members on the front lines, we’re excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.
Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: Chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.
A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone’s welcome. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop and grow your skills for the future. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact on people and the planet.
Join us. Dare for Better.