Company Overview

Dalilang Foods & Beverages is a Ugandan FMCG manufacturer producing packaged snacks, including potato crisps, gonja chips, coated peanuts and peanut butter, alongside spring water, fruit nectars and energy drinks.

Job Summary

The Factory Operations Director (Food Division) is responsible for directing potato, gonja, and peanut snack manufacturing lines to optimize daily operational yields and maintain low waste ratios across the food division. This role involves translating business strategy into practical operating plans, resource allocations, and capital investments while managing financial and commercial risks. The position also provides end-to-end operational governance, building leadership accountability and ensuring strict adherence to food safety, occupational hygiene, and quality standards.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Direct potato, gonja, and peanut snack manufacturing lines to achieve planned output, optimize daily yields, and maintain low waste ratios.
• Translate organizational strategy and commercial targets into realistic operating schedules, capital expenditure priorities, and capacity plans.
• Oversee operational budgets, forecasts, and utility and material usage to prevent avoidable losses, excess inventory, and unplanned downtime.
• Enforce occupational health, food safety, hygiene, environmental, and emergency standards across all lines without compromising safety for throughput.
• Supervise cross-functional collaboration with maintenance, quality assurance, and supply chain departments to resolve coordination gaps and prevent delivery delays.
• Lead root cause investigations into recurring defects, process variations, and equipment stoppages to implement verified corrective actions.
• Establish performance accountability and management routines for production teams while sponsoring succession planning and technical capability development.
• Maintain complete, traceable, and accurate operational records, production logs, incident reports, and audit-ready compliance documentation.

Skills Required

• High volume snack line management and operational reporting
• Thermal processing oversight and yield optimization
• Budgeting, cost control, and financial variance analysis
• Root cause problem solving and process continuous improvement
• Occupational safety, food hygiene, and regulatory compliance management

Education Qualifications & Experience

• Recognized Bachelor’s degree in Food Processing Technology, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Food Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management, or a related discipline
• Relevant Master’s degree, MBA, MSc, MA, MEng, or postgraduate diploma
• Professional certifications such as CPA, ACCA, CIPS, CIM, CIPD, project management, quality, or safety credentials
• Equivalent foreign qualifications recognized in Uganda
• 6+ years managing industrial food production facilities.

• Direct potato, gonja, and peanut snack manufacturing lines to achieve planned output, optimize daily yields, and maintain low waste ratios.
• Translate organizational strategy and commercial targets into realistic operating schedules, capital expenditure priorities, and capacity plans.
• Oversee operational budgets, forecasts, and utility and material usage to prevent avoidable losses, excess inventory, and unplanned downtime.
• Enforce occupational health, food safety, hygiene, environmental, and emergency standards across all lines without compromising safety for throughput.
• Supervise cross-functional collaboration with maintenance, quality assurance, and supply chain departments to resolve coordination gaps and prevent delivery delays.
• Lead root cause investigations into recurring defects, process variations, and equipment stoppages to implement verified corrective actions.
• Establish performance accountability and management routines for production teams while sponsoring succession planning and technical capability development.
• Maintain complete, traceable, and accurate operational records, production logs, incident reports, and audit-ready compliance documentation.

• High volume snack line management and operational reporting
• Thermal processing oversight and yield optimization
• Budgeting, cost control, and financial variance analysis
• Root cause problem solving and process continuous improvement
• Occupational safety, food hygiene, and regulatory compliance management

• Recognized Bachelor’s degree in Food Processing Technology, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Food Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management, or a related discipline
• Relevant Master’s degree, MBA, MSc, MA, MEng, or postgraduate diploma
• Professional certifications such as CPA, ACCA, CIPS, CIM, CIPD, project management, quality, or safety credentials
• Equivalent foreign qualifications recognized in Uganda