Sleeving Operations Lead: Safety, Quality & OEE

Halewood South Africa; Benoni; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Halewood South Africa in Benoni is looking for a hands-on shift supervisor to lead sleeving operations on the packaging line, ensuring output meets quality standards and line efficiency targets. You will plan labour, run start-ups and handovers, perform in-process QC, and drive continuous improvement using lean tools and OEE data.

This role requires FMCG packaging experience and the ability to lead on the floor.

Qualifications

• Matric (Grade 12) essential; production/operations management certificate or diploma advantageous.
• 3+ years packaging line experience, including sleeving/shrink-sleeve equipment, with 1–2 years in a supervisory role.
• FMCG or beverage experience preferred.
• Shrink-sleeve application and heat-tunnel operation (essential line experience).
• OEE, downtime loss coding and basic lean tools (5S, SMED, 5-Why).
• SYSPRO production capture (advantage).
• GMP and food-safety requirements (FSSC 22000 / HACCP awareness).
• Leads from the floor and is visible; takes ownership of results.

Responsibilities

• Plan and allocate labour on the sleeving lines to meet the authorised production schedule.
• Run start-up, shift handovers, and in-process quality checks such as sleeve position, shrink quality, print/batch coding and artwork version.
• Record production output, downtime with loss codes, waste and yield accurately every shift.
• Manage sleeve material availability and reconciliation with the warehouse and Production Admin.
• Lead short-interval control and elevate breakdowns to Engineering, and quality issues to QC, straight away.
• Enforce safety, housekeeping, food-safety and GMP standards; manage attendance, discipline and performance of the team.
• Use a line loss Pareto to eliminate the main downtime and waste causes on the sleeving lines.
• Reduce changeover times (SMED) and build standard work for set-ups and sleeve changes.
• Develop and multi-skill operators using a skills matrix.
• Use digital production data to keep OEE improving.

Skills

Team leadership

OEE improvement

Lean tools (5S, SMED, 5-Why)

Downtime coding

Safety leadership

Education

Matric (Grade 12)

Production/Operations management certificate or diploma

Tools

SYSPRO

Job description

Halewood South Africa in Benoni is looking for a hands-on shift supervisor to lead sleeving operations on the packaging line, ensuring output meets quality standards and line efficiency targets. You will plan labour, run start-ups and handovers, perform in-process QC, and drive continuous improvement using lean tools and OEE data.

This role requires FMCG packaging experience and the ability to lead on the floor.