Packaging Area Manager

Job Description – Area Manager

Overall Line Performance

The Area Manager is fully accountable for all aspects of line performance, including safety, quality, environmental compliance, financial performance, production planning, efficiency, losses, and waste.

• Leads daily, weekly and monthly line performance reviews, including KPI trees, resource allocation, and prioritization.

• Establishes clear escalation triggers (KPI thresholds, breakdown frequency, quality incidents) and ensures rapid escalation to Reliability and Continuous Improvement teams.

• Owns the line Dream, associated KPIs, long-term strategy, and execution roadmap.

Operational Excellence & VPO:

• Ensures deployment, sustainability, and effectiveness of all relevant VPO pillars and blocks within the area.

• Responsible for MCRS execution, ensuring that Front-Line Managers follow management checklists and routine agendas.

• Owns the production strategy, changeover strategy and execution, corrective and preventive maintenance approach, start‑up/shutdown processes, and production modulation.

• Ensures robust problem solving through high‑quality 5 Whys, anomaly reports, PDCA cycles, and VPO tools. Drives continuous improvement and GOP execution.

• Ensures efficient design and use of VPO infrastructure: Team Room, communication boards, visual management systems, and operator workstations.

• Responsible for deploying and sustaining the Autonomous Teams structure across all crews and shifts.

• Guarantees the existence, quality, and continuous update of SOPs and other operational standards.

Maintenance, Reliability & Coordination

• Oversees maintenance backlog management and validates maintenance priorities with Maintenance and Reliability team.

• Reviews execution quality of maintenance work orders and ensures feedback loops for improvement.

• Owns capability development for core team members, including skills gap analysis and training plans.

• Coordinates production windows and preventive maintenance schedules with Logistics and Technical Planners.

Leadership, Engagement & Transformation

• Ultimately responsible for team engagement within the area, promoting high‑value activities and eliminating low‑value tasks.

• Ensures proper integration of new equipment, technologies, processes, and products in compliance with Management of Change (MoC) requirements.

• Ensures that Plant Technical Experts (PTEs) and technicians actively support continuous improvement using VPO tools.

• Acts as a transformational leader, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and performance.