Packaging Operator

40 hours per week

Job description

■ Cuijk
■ Full-time
■ €3,350 – €3,850 gross per month
■ MBO in Engineering
■ Production

To expand our production team, we are looking for a Packaging Operator. Are you technically minded, do you work with precision, and do you enjoy keeping track of everything on the production floor? If so, we warmly invite you to get to know Merenda Foods and help us produce organic snacks for customers both at home and abroad!

What does the position entail?

You’ll work alongside a dedicated team in a modern and clean production environment. Our packaging lines are largely automated. You’ll keep a close eye on the process and ensure that everything continues to run safely and efficiently.

  • Operating, setting up, and modifying fully automated packaging lines;
  • Monitoring the progress and quality of the packaging process;
  • Troubleshooting minor malfunctions and contacting technical support when necessary;
  • Conducting quality checks on products and packaging;
  • Recording production data;
  • Ensuring a clean and safe work environment.


You will work in three shifts: 6:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., 2:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. – 6:30 a.m.

What are we asking for?

As a Packaging Operator, you enjoy working with technology and find satisfaction in a production process that runs smoothly. You work carefully, maintain an overview, and quickly notice when something needs extra attention. You take responsibility and remain calm.

You feel at home in a production environment where safety, hygiene, and teamwork are important. You have a hands-on approach, offer suggestions when things can be improved, and enjoy contributing to organic products that people can enjoy with confidence. What else we’re looking for:

  • Some experience as a Production Worker / Operator / Machine Operator;
  • Proficiency in Dutch and/or English;
  • Living in the immediate vicinity of Cuijk.

What do we offer?

  • A full-time job (40 hours) working three shifts;
  • A salary between €3,350 and €3,800 gross per month, including a shift differential;
  • A non-contributory pension and plenty of opportunities for professional development;
  • Room for your ideas and personal growth;
  • A supportive work environment where everyone knows each other and works together toward a common goal.

Our company

Thanks to its in-depth knowledge of the baby food category, Merenda Foods develops relevant products that reflect the latest trends and developments. Merenda Foods uses pulses and unusual grains as a base. We then combine playful and challenging shapes with fruit and vegetables. Low in salt, low in fat, oven-baked, not fried, no added sugar, etc. The modern production facility is fully automated and designed to operate as efficiently as possible, allowing us to focus entirely on controlling the process and ensuring product quality. Sustainability has been part of our DNA for 40 years. We are constantly driven to devise and implement solutions that help make the world a little more liveable for ourselves and future generations. We see it as an important mission to pursue that goal together with our customers and suppliers.

Our team

We believe in a future where children grow up in a beautiful and healthy world. The Merenda Foods team consists of a group of enthusiastic, diverse people who all make an important contribution to our mission. Everyone has their own unique qualities and is given every opportunity to build entrepreneurship, ownership, impact, and trust. All of this contributes to a high level of job satisfaction at Merenda Foods.

Interested?

Are you driven and want to work with a team to build a better future for yourself and others? Is the next step in your career with a commercial and mission-driven company? We are curious to find out what you have to offer the world and how you think you can apply that within Merenda Foods.