Packing Production Supervisor – Cosmetic Manufacturing Unit

HCP Wellness Private Limited is a premier, ISO-certified private label cosmetic manufacturer and leading third-party contract manufacturing partner in India. Headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, we specialize in comprehensive end-to-end product development across skincare, hair care, oral care, and toothpaste segments. Catering to rapidly growing domestic and international personal care brands, HCP Wellness combines advanced infrastructure with stringent quality standards to deliver custom formulations and exceptional market-ready products.

We are seeking an organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Packing Production Supervisor to manage primary and secondary packaging assembly lines at our advanced manufacturing unit in Bavla, Ahmedabad. This role is crucial for ensuring that finished items conform to absolute aesthetic, quality, and batch-delivery timelines. This position is ideal for early-career professionals with up to 2 years of manufacturing experience, or ambitious freshers with a background in science, pharmacy, or engineering who are eager to establish a career in production operations.

Key Responsibilities
Line Operations Management: Direct and monitor daily packaging lines for skincare, hair care, and toothpaste products, overseeing everything from initial filling to secondary cartoning.
Manpower Allocation: Allocate tasks and supervise line operators, contract workers, and packers to hit structured, shift-wise packaging volume metrics.
SOP Compliance: Enforce rigorous adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensuring exact records are logged across batch packaging records (BPR) and line clearance forms.
Quality Control & Inspection: Conduct continuous in-process visual checks to eliminate defects such as misaligned labels, weak induction seals, incorrect batch codes, or damaged boxing.
Batch Documentation: Maintain pristine, audit-ready data including packaging logs, daily yield calculations, material discrepancy forms, and comprehensive shift handovers.
Machine Maintenance Coordination: Oversee the operational functionality of packaging equipment (tube fillers, labeling machines, wrappers) and coordinate with maintenance engineering to minimize cycle-downtime.
Wastage Control: Track and implement protocols to drastically minimize packing material loss, foil/laminate shrinkage, and product bulk rejection over the packing lifecycle.
Inventory Requisition: Proactively coordinate with the central warehouse to issue precise quantities of primary and secondary packaging materials to ensure non-stop line running.
Safety & Sanitation: Maintain peak standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) compliance across all active packaging lines.

Required Skills
Industry Knowledge: Practical understanding of primary, secondary, and tertiary packing systems within FMCG, cosmetics, or pharmaceutical sectors.
Compliance Literacy: Familiarity with line clearance frameworks, CGMP compliance, and handling batch production records.
Equipment Familiarity: Basic understanding of automated or semi-automated inline filling, coding, and cartooning machinery.
Leadership Capability: Natural capacity to command respect, manage floor teams, and resolve immediate operator-level workflow friction.
Problem-Solving: Sharp analytical orientation to resolve packaging assembly bottlenecks under strict time limits.
Data Accuracy: Proficiency in basic calculations needed to determine production throughput percentages and material yields.
Software Basics: Comfortable with basic computerized entries (MS Excel, Word) for administrative shift reporting.

Educational Qualification
Diploma, ITI or graduation in any relevant discipline.

Experience Required
1 to 2 years of floor operations experience within a cosmetic, pharmaceutical, food processing, or consumer goods packaging cell.