Vacancies, April 2026

Packaging Operator (Contract) -10 Positions

Company: Heineken Ethiopia

Deadline: Jan 09, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: Packaging Operator (Contract)

Location: Kilinto

Application Deadline: January 09, 2026

Employment Type: Contract basis (6 months)

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.

Key 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. Execute 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.

Job Requirements

Experience and Skills

  • 0 – 2 years of experience, preferably in beverage/logistic operation shop floor experience

Education

  • Preferably TVET Electrical or Mechanical, Auto Mechanics & Automotive
  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, or related fields

    Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Required Skills
  • Troubleshooting
  • Adaptability
  • problem solving skill

How to Apply

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Interested and qualified applicants should submit their recent CV via the form link: https://forms.gle/rnGMfUKdR4AozPKV6.

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