: Bottle Line Operator

Department: Production / Bottling & Packaging

Reports to: Production Supervisor / Line In-charge

Employment type: Full-time; shift-based

Experience: 2 - 7 years in bottling, filling, packaging, pharma, or chemical manufacturing preferred.

Position Summary The Bottle Line Operator will operate and monitor the bottle filling, capping, and sealing line to ensure safe, accurate, hygienic, and productive production. The role requires a multitasking candidate who can manage machine operation, quality checks, material handling, changeovers, and basic troubleshooting while meeting production targets. Similar roles commonly cover bottle in-feed, filling, capping/sealing, coding, inspection, and packing operations.

Key Responsibilities

Set up, operate, and monitor bottle filling, capping, and sealing machines as per approved SOPs and production schedule.

Ensure bottles are correctly fed, filled to the specified volume/weight, capped, sealed, coded, and packed.

Monitor line speed, fill level, cap torque, seal integrity, date/lot coding, and bottle orientation throughout the shift.





Perform regular in-process quality checks and remove damaged, leaking, underfilled, overfilled, improperly capped, or incorrectly coded bottles.

Make minor machine adjustments for bottle size, nozzle height, filling volume, capper height, torque, and sealing parameters; escalate major faults to maintenance or the supervisor.

Support line changeovers between different bottle sizes, closures, products, and batch requirements while minimizing downtime.

Maintain accurate production records, batch details, material usage, downtime, rejection/scrap data, and equipment logbooks.

Follow GMP, hygiene, food safety, safety, and 5S requirements; maintain a clean and organized work area.

Coordinate with supervisors, QA, maintenance, and material handlers to ensure uninterrupted line operation and availability of approved components.

Report abnormalities, breakdowns, quality deviations, safety hazards, and near-misses immediately.

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