Packaging Manager

Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.

Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass‑merchandisers, as well as food service and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Job Description Summary

The Packaging Manager is responsible for leading all packaging operations to ensure the safe, efficient, and compliant production of finished goods while meeting customer, quality, service, and cost expectations. This position provides strategic and day to day leadership for packaging operations by developing team members, optimizing processes, improving equipment reliability, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring compliance with all food safety and regulatory requirements.

The Packaging manager partners closely with production, maintenance, engineering, quality, procurement, supply planning, warehouse, and R&D to improve operational performance, reduce costs, and build a high performing team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with local, state and federal food safety guidelines, GMP’s and PMO requirements for facility
• Participates in plant QA Systems (SQMS Key Element supporter) and HSE systems
• Ensure that quality issues are reported to management
• Responsible for development, administration and communication of team scorecards in collaboration with operating teams
• Lead daily operations by establishing clear priorities, communicating expectations, and holding the team accountable for safety, quality, productivity, and performance results.
• Develop and monitor departmental KPIs, including safety, quality, OEE, downtime, waste, labor efficiency, schedule attainment, and material utilization, implementing action plans to improve performance.
• Develop, coach, and mentor Packaging Technicians and Packaging Leads to build technical, operational, and leadership capabilities.
• Maintain and actively manage the department skills matrix, ensuring employee competencies, qualifications, and cross‑training requirements are current and progressing.
• Provide timely performance feedback, coaching, and corrective guidance to address performance gaps, reinforce expectations, and support employee development.
• Identify training needs and ensure completion of required training, certifications, and qualification programs to support operational excellence and employee growth.
• Build departmental bench strength by developing succession plans, evaluating employee readiness, and creating growth opportunities for advancement within the Packaging department.
• Foster a culture of accountability, employee engagement, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Ensures that quality issues are reported to management immediately
• Accountable for meeting production goals set during shift schedule
• Accountable for proper receiving, processing, and packaging of products including any and all documentation
• Directs and reports the usage of packaging materials, raw milk, sugar, soybean oil, and other minor ingredients and makes recommendations to reduce variances
• Works closely with Operations Leadership and Supply Planning to lock in production schedules
• Controls cost and minimize loss related to material consumption including all packaging materials
• Ensures all production PM’s scheduled are completed effectively by…