Job Purpose

To supervise and coordinate day-to-day edible oil extraction, refining, filling and packing operations, ensuring production targets, yield efficiency, and quality and safety standards are consistently achieved.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and supervise daily/shift production activities across extraction, refining and packing lines.
• Allocate manpower and assign shaft operators to stations based on the production plan.
• Monitor key process parameters (temperature, pressure, flow rate, feed rate) to ensure the process runs within approved limits.
• Track raw material consumption, output yield and process losses; investigate and correct causes of low yield or high waste.
• Ensure production, downtime and material-usage records/logbooks are accurately maintained for each shift.
• Coordinate with the Engineering Supervisor to report equipment issues promptly and support fast breakdown resolution.
• Coordinate with Quality Control to ensure in-process checks are performed, and any non-conforming product is isolated and addressed.
• Enforce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), safety procedures and good manufacturing practice (GMP) on the shop floor.
• Train, coach and supervise shaft operators, including onboarding of new operators and refresher training.
• Support the Plant Manager in production planning, shift scheduling and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure good housekeeping (5S) and safe working conditions are maintained across the process area.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong working knowledge of edible oil extraction and/or refining processes.
• Shift and team management skills.
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting ability under production pressure.
• Good record-keeping and reporting discipline.
• Basic understanding of food safety and workplace safety practices.

Working Conditions

• Shop-floor based role, working on a shift-rotation basis including possible night/weekend shifts. Exposure to plant noise, heat and processing odors typical of an edible oil facility, with required use of PPE.

Qualifications and Experience

• Diploma or BSc in Chemical Engineering, Food Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in process/production operations, preferably in an edible oil or food processing plant.
• Prior experience supervising shift-based production teams.