Packaging Manager - Pakse

POSITION:              PACKAGING MANAGER – PAKSE PLANT

DEPARTMENT:     PRODUCTION

LOCATION:            PAKSE PLANT, SOUTH OF LAOS

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

People Management 

• Leadership role model in the department and across site
• Responsible for ensuring compliance to HSE, food safety and hygiene and stands within department.
• Responsible for implementing Group and Country HR Policies and Processes within the department. 
• Responsible for managing within site union/workers council agreements.
• Responsible for the development of direct reports and their teams – ensuring competencies and skills are aligned with business and company needs/vision.
• Responsible for ensuring people resource and demand plans are aligned. 
• Responsible for ensuring people performance management processes are followed – regular individual performance appraisals are carried, and people performance managed effectively and according to HR standards.

Process Management

• Responsible for ensuring department PMS, standard meetings, reporting systems and processes are effective and follow group standards. 
• Responsible for ensuring packaging standards are developed and complied with through promoting standard work processes and through process confirmation and training. 
• Responsible for ensuring Excellence problem solving methodologies are used to resolve day to day performance gaps and issues. 
• Responsible for actively contributing to the development of site strategy as part of the site senior management team. 
• Provide detailed packaging input into site Long Term Development Plan (LDP) process.

Performance Management

• Setting and managing department financial budget (OPEX and CAPEX) 
• Setting and managing department KPI 
• Supporting and potentially leading improvement projects (Operational Savings) 
• Ensuring the sharing of best practices within the site and with group counterparts. 
• Driving Carlsberg excellence development, the area of responsibility Functional Specific Management 
• Ensure packaging KPIs are implicitly understood and managed efficiently at an appropriate level (Eg: OEE, B&D, LEF, CO, loss, Pack Quality KPIs) 
• Ensures compliance to Group COM Packaging standards. 
• Actively supporting Group packaging initiatives. eg VIPEX, NPD initiatives and Capital Projects 
• Owner of the Autonomous Maintenance Pillar 
• Drives improvement in performance using Carlsberg Excellence activities like GEMBA Kaizen, SMED, 5S etc. 
• Sign off Weekly Packaging Plans 
• Sign off Weekly Maintenance Plans

QUALIFICATION REQUIRED

• University degree in Engineering or technical equivalent. Managerial experience within a high-speed packaging environment. 
• At least 5 years’ experience within a production environment with 3 years at management level. 
• Proven experience in developing people and plant, managing budgets, and delivering performance improvements through Carlsberg Excellence methodology.
• Fluent in English both written as well as spoken. 
• Proactively aligns self and team towards the agreed priorities. 
• Actively promotes ''one - team'' spirit and collaboration across functions.
• Detects and encourages talent and coaches towards for company targets.
• Takes account details and big picture when solving problems.
• Sets clear and stretch objectives and rigorously tracks their delivery.
• Personally, ensures the team has capability to deliver. 
• Plans affectively, sets priorities, and puts ideas into practice.
• Seizes opportunities, embraces, and drives change.
• Seeks, shares, and utilizes best practices.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit your updated CV and cover letter (PDF in English) to [email protected] before 20/10/2024.

For more detail, please contact our recruitment team: 020 56556272 (Call only)

Mon-Fri 8:00 – 17:00

Noted: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview