Packaging Operations Lead — First Line Manager

AB InBev; Vlaams-Brabant; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive bonus

Flexible rewards package (smartphone,

Bike lease

Meal vouchers

Job summary

AB InBev in Belgium seeks an Associate First Line Manager for Packaging at Stella Artois Brewery to lead safe, efficient packaging operations. You will coordinate teams across warm/cold blocks, filtration and packaging, drive improvements, and ensure KPI targets while coaching staff.

The role emphasizes safety, teamwork, and development, with opportunities to contribute to major projects and ERP implementations in a dynamic brewery environment.

Qualifications

• University level or equivalent by experience.
• Strong leadership with coaching and communication.
• Extensive knowledge of brewing and packaging processes.
• Strong organizational skills and respect for deadlines.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Flexible – team player.
• Languages: Dutch and English.

Responsibilities

• Focus on safety within the brewery.
• Identify and remedy unsafe conditions and incidents.
• Organize, coordinate, and monitor production of the hot block, cold block, filtration and packaging.
• Contribute to identifying improvement plans for the brewery.
• Ensure performance as defined in daily, weekly, and monthly KPIs and communicate corrective actions in meetings.
• Motivate the team to achieve required KPIs.
• Regularly evaluate training programs for all team members and document with existing tools.
• Conduct root-cause analyses with the maintenance department to address root causes of problems, identify and implement appropriate process changes when needed.
• Manage staffing planning, including arrangements for replacement of absent workers in the next shift.
• Support implementation of innovations and improvement actions.
• Participation in and support of key projects (such as VPO, ERP, …).

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Communication

Organizational skills

Dutch & English

Problem solving

Education

University degree or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

AB InBev in Belgium seeks an Associate First Line Manager for Packaging at Stella Artois Brewery to lead safe, efficient packaging operations. You will coordinate teams across warm/cold blocks, filtration and packaging, drive improvements, and ensure KPI targets while coaching staff.

The role emphasizes safety, teamwork, and development, with opportunities to contribute to major projects and ERP implementations in a dynamic brewery environment.