Junior Production Engineer

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive because we expect pace and agility. We insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the shift to achieve production plan, and assure the compliance of the daily floor activities to the company’s certified systems.
• Issue the daily production work order according to production plan.
• Monitor, organize and coordinate shop floor transactions to ensure plan fulfilment.
• Monitor and evaluate the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like productivity, wastage, efficiency, hygiene, and safety.
• Identify production bottlenecks and drive actions to eliminate them.
• Maintain and improve daily shop-floor activities in compliance with company’s certified systems.
• Ensuring that the production is cost-effective.
• Making sure that products are produced on time and are of good quality.
• Track competencies of subordinates and provide leadership and development as required to achieve the objectives.
• Ensure implementation and evolution of safety procedure.
• Responsible for following the factory’s hygiene and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Strictly follow company product quality rules and ensure that all the staff adhere to the specifications and do not deviate from the standards.
• Drive corrective/preventive actions to improve quality levels & eliminate quality failures.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.