Production Manager
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Seven Up Bottling Company is hiring a Production Manager for its Aba, Abia plant on a full-time basis. The role involves planning, organizing, and supervising production activities to meet quality, safety, and cost targets in line with company and regulatory standards. Candidates should be prepared to drive performance management, process automation, and continuous improvement within a large-scale beverage manufacturing environment.
- Full-time role at a major Nigerian beverage manufacturer
- Based in Aba, Abia State
- Focus on production planning, quality, safety, and cost optimization
- Requires driving performance management and process automation
- Involves compliance with food and beverage legislation and ISO standards
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Job Title: Production Manager
Production Manager at Seven Up Bottling Company
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Sep 23, 2026, 8:11 AM
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Seven-Up Bottling Company Ltd is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: Aba, Abia
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
Plans, organizes, supervises and controls the activity of the production for their assigned area of coverage on his or her line, in order to fulfil the production plan at a high-quality level, with high level safety compliance and optimum costs, according to company standards.
Responsibilities
- Drives effective visual management to communicate performance to shop floor team.
- Utilizes performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all shop floor delivers full performance (HR, Manufacturing Excellence). Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit.
- Escalates promptly according to existing escalation matrix any non-conformity observed during the production process.
- Ensures strict adherence to Food and Beverage Legislation, PI Standards, ISO certification, Good Manufacturing Practices and other internal and external regulatory compliance
- Strictly executes production plan in his/her shift and escalates all challenges beyond his decision authority.
- Suggest recommendations and support implementation of the ones delivering values
- Understands the monetary impact of raw material losses on product and plant profitability.
- Promotes process automation and use of technology within the business.
- Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team and stakeholders
- Leads by example and effectively communicates the actions which put the Quality First (product, behavior, communication, etc.)
- Drives innovation in production equipment by ensuring continuous process improvement and exploring global and industry benchmark and employee input
- Ensures GMP/GHK standards are adhered to on his line(s), executes GMP Audit as per planned weekly calendar, executes CAP as part of implementation from GMP/GHK Audit
- Manages usage for PPEs and consumables
- Builds relationship with shop floor to engage them.
- Ensures the availability of raw & packaging materials as at when due to ensure production continuity according to plan.
- Champions Manufacturing Excellence routines relevant to their line, keeping the process alive and using it to drive shift performance.
- Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
- Participates and actively contributes in business performance review & management routines (Leads shift team meetings & other management routines as to production schedule)
- Drives zero tolerance for violations of Code of Business Conduct.
- Ensures zero tolerance to drinking / eating on production lines, prompt cleaning of production lines is completed during his shift.
- Ensures Production personnel wears clean uniform, 100% Compliance to PPE for all Personnel in the Production area, No Jewellery worn in production areas
- Stands as the frontline executor for all daily CLIT activities.
- Builds and reinforces relationships with Engineering, Quality Assurance, Production Planning and relevant government regulatory agencies.
- Ensures that line start up, shut down and change-over are executed strictly according SOP.
- Participates in project initiative execution during shift run.
- Understands and controls main cost drivers on the line, addresses excess manning on his line.
- Reports all near misses/Non-conformance in his shift and follows through with responsible persons for resolution.
- Enforcement of all line personnel to comply with the
Requirements
- of Good Housekeeping and Good Manufacturing practices during his Shift.
- Ensures strict adherence to agreed maintenance plan and all production staff participate as planned.
- Ensure a full shift report & shift hand over notes are prepared and handed to the incoming shift manager.
- Builds relationship with Engineering (Maintenance), Warehouse, Planning, Quality Assurance and maintenance-overhaul contractors.
- Removes all bottlenecks to planned production in his or her line and escalates timely for help when necessary.
- Participates in running of (RCA CAPA) Root Cause Analysis, Corrective and Preventive Actions.
- Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within the organization
- Ensures production of products with high quality, stops the line if the products are out of limits on quality parameters, and promptly resolves all quality issues raised by QA
- Ensures the availability and supply of products for packaging
- Stops the production immediately if there is an objective evidence that the product or package do not meet the organization’s PIQS, HACCP, ISO 21000
- Ensures all quality control parameters and variables are within acceptable targets in his/her Shift (e.g. Brix, Fill Height etc.)
Requirement
Understanding of business case/cost
Benefits
analysis preparation and basic financial analysis tools.
Experience
in plant manufacturing operations, project planning & implementation.
Experienced in budgeting and people management
Ability to build and leverage relationships to improve results
Proven competencies with budgeting procedures and management of costs.
Ability to select and assess first-line managers
Good understanding and
of current WC manufacturing methodologies.
Good understanding of GMP and GHK (5S) standards
Understanding of financial impact of decisions
Operational planning expertise/
Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills.
Knowledge of bottling operations: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety
Minimum of 5– 7 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience.
Ability to lead and manage change setting standards for managing performance.
Coaching direct reports and mentoring others
Knowledge of bottling operations
Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy and improvement initiatives.
Good understanding of HQSE modalities and codes.
A minimum of HND or BSc in Mechanical Engineering.
Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things
Previous new equipment or line installation or extension could be an advantage.
Ability to influence situations without direct control of resources.
Ability to translate functional strategy into unit/section’s plan
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send CV to:
careers@sevenup.org
using the job title as the subject of the email.
Note:
Only selected candidates will be contacted.
Application
Deadline:
23rd October, 2026.
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