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Overview
Packaging production managers work with package units, materials, product specifications and production processes. They analyse how goods are packed, where damage or quality loss can occur and how the packaging should be improved.
In job descriptions, look for packaging design, packaging standards, quality control, materials, production processes, safety management, customer contact, financial records, CAD, product inspection and monitoring packaging operations.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Packaging production managers connect product requirements with packaging design and production reality. Work can include analysing package units, selecting materials, checking standards, solving damage risks and coordinating packaging operations with production, quality and customers.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes packaging functions, packaging processes, materials, production processes, packaging standards, quality evaluation, safety management, packaging design, customer relationships, CAD, product inspection and monitoring packaging operations.
Salary context
Salary context depends on packaging complexity, production volume, quality responsibility, material decisions, design approval, customer contact, financial tracking, safety obligations and whether the role manages people or packaging operations.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward packaging engineering, packaging development, production management, quality management, operations management, customer-facing packaging consultancy or broader industrial engineering roles.
Good to know
Check whether adverts focus on technical design, production supervision, customer problem solving or quality systems. Packaging roles can differ sharply between concept development, factory coordination and approval of finished packaging.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Packaging activities
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include food and beverage packaging technologist and packing machinery engineer.
These examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Industrial Production Managers
11-3051.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
17.21Manufacture of corrugated paper, paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard22.22Manufacture of plastic packing goods17.25Manufacture of other articles of paper and paperboard82.92Packaging activities
Alternative labels
assistant operations manager
packaging consultant
trainee operations manager
graduate mail and packaging manager
packaging manager
trainee mail and packaging manager
graduate packaging manager
packaging development manager
packaging technologist
senior mail and packaging manager
assistant mail and packaging manager
packaging production engineer
trainee packaging manager
packaging specialist
assistant packaging manager
technical packaging manager
graduate operations manager
senior operations manager
senior packaging technologist
senior packaging manager
Occupation group
Industrial and production engineers (2141)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8de99659-5b10-4825-ac67-0c50189bcc3c |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2141.9 |
| ISCO group | 2141 |
| Concept type | Occupation |