The successful candidate will be responsible for to ensure that the plant is available for production by carrying preventative maintenance, by attending to breakdowns and malfunctions, to communicate effectively with the maintenance manager, production management and quality control personnel, to ensure functionality and availability of all electrical equipment in the factory, and to install/supply power to new equipment and to assist with the maintenance of the factory.
Responsibilities
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
- Mechanical Maintenance
- Repair mechanical breakdowns on production line equipment
- Assessment and replacement of suspect components as a measure to prevent future stoppages
- Attend to general electrical and mechanical problems in the production area, warehouse, office block
- and outside premises
- Preventative maintenance program: on a daily basis attend to checks, maintenance and lubrication
- instructions on KHS line, Vermercati line, Cordial line, sugar/syrup room, compressed air supply, as
- detailed in the weekly maintenance schedule.
- Cooling: control and keep log of performance of compressors, levels of oil, condensers, as well as
- monitoring of glycol supply to plant
- Municipal water supply: monitoring of filtration i.e. sand filters, activated carbon filters, cartridge
- filters, and UV installation as well as water pumps and valves
- Compressed air supply: monitoring of compressor performances and keeping records of operating
- temperatures, running hours etc.- air driers and air filtration equipment
- Assist with daily start-up and shut down of essential production machinery, pre-production trial run
- Assist with size changes on production lines
- Implement and oversee preventative maintenance programme
- Emergency breakdown repairs on dayshift and nightshift
- Inform maintenance manager of any equipment abuse
- Control maintenance store and company tools
- Applies electrical theory and related knowledge to test and modify operational electrical machinery/
- electrical control equipment/ circuitry in the plant
- Assembles and tests motor control devices, switch panels, transformers, generator windings.
- solenoids and other electrical equipment/ components according to engineering data and knowledge
- of electrical principles
- Diagnoses cases of electrical/mechanical malfunctions or failure or expansions
- Develops wiring diagrams for systems or equipment modifications or expansions
- Assists with general plant maintenance with the maintenance team
- Conducts daily running and repair of plant machinery as per instructions
- Performs electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, electronic and cooling system maintenance on all
- machinery including high speed machinery and PLC
- Assists with breakdowns and attends to call-outs according to the operational requirements
- Greases machinery as per maintenance schedule
- Adherence to the health, safety, food and environmental standards
- Staff shall adhere to all Food Safety Policies and PRPs and shall adhere to and enforce all food
- safety requirements at all times
- Staff shall adhere to Health, Safety & Environmental Policies and PRPs and shall adhere to and
- enforce all Health and Safety requirements at all times
- Visitor and Contractor Policy - staff shall ensure that visitors or contractors entering the facility are
- signed in, escorted and wear PPE, are aware of the hygiene policies and do not smoke, eat or drink
- inside the facility
- Code of Practice - staff shall maintain high levels of personal hygiene in accordance with the code
- of conduct
- Handwashing Procedure - Ensuring staff are cleaning and sanitizing hands efficiently before
- handling the product.
- Physical Contamination Control Policy and Procedure - Staff shall be aware of the potential of physical product contamination.
- Staff is aware of control measures to prevent physical contamination.
- Safety, Health and Environment Policy - Staff take reasonable measures to ensure health and safety hazards do not occur. Should an accident occur, staff shall be aware of the procedure of reporting the incident.
- First Aid Policy - Staff are aware of the first aider on site. Staff is trained to report injuries and illness to supervisors/first aiders.
- Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures
- Maintains expected performance standards
- Enforce compliance with relevant legislative and statutory requirements
- Enforce GMPs and conduct themselves in a manner conducive with food safety practices
- Attend Training and enforce learnings from the training for Quality, Food Safety and Health & Safety that been prescribed for them
- Be vigilant of food defense and food fraud risks
- Maintain a high level of housekeeping within the work environment
- Responsible to ensure housekeeping is performed and ensure that all products and activities are
- stored and are executed within the demarcated areas according to the housekeeping policy (green red and yellow areas)
- Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures
- Maintains expected performance standards
- While Job Descriptions are written up for the purpose of a basic outline of the work and responsibilities associated with the Job, the Company encourages and expects all employees from time to time, to assist with work that may not be a direct part of their job description
- Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4
- Relevant Trade Test (Essential)
- Up to 3 years experience (Operational Execution) Maintenance; FMCG; Bottling Equipment
- Basic Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Word; E-Mail
- Communication
- Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks
- Problem Solving
- Proactive identification of problems that are concrete and procedural, troubleshoot and apply solutions in line with guidelines provided or escalate more complex problems to superiors, providing information required to solve problems.
- Relationships Maintained
- Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation
- Verbal Communication
- Able to communicate verbally in a logical manner.
- Takes the intended audience into account when communicating verbal information.
- Makes use of appropriate business language in verbal communication.
- Includes all relevant information in verbal arguments.
- Demonstrates proficiency of language in verbal communication.
- Interprets complex information to expresses own viewpoint in verbal communication.
- Concludes verbal arguments by making reference to relevant facts
- Decision Making
- Organises information to make it easier to analyse or see trends.
- Anticipates consequences and formulates alternatives.
- Establishes clear decision criteria for making informed choices.
- Seeks relevant information to better understand situations and problems.
- Conducts appropriate analysis; neither makes snap decisions or over-analyses.
- Sees relationships between various facts, figures or other information.
- Continuous Improvement
- Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved
- Seeks out sources of information, including trade associations, best practice companies, customers, peers, subordinates, etc.
- Finds ways to fast-adapt improvement ideas to work processes
- Proactively seeks out resources, alliances, etc., needed to quickly introduce improvements
- Collaboration
- Helps others with their work and meets commitments to team members or others in the organisation.
- Actively contributes to team discussions and the accomplishment of team work plans.
- Shares expertise and resources to help others address their needs.
- Seeks to include all those who can contribute to the most successful outcome and those who have a
- stake in the results.
- Actively keeps all stakeholders informed.
- Attempts to reinvigorate team processes when progress is lagging: stays engaged even when not in full agreement with the teams direction.
- Accountability
- Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals: takes necessary actions to keep progress against objectives on track.
- Prepares a roadmap for success.
- Ensures that all who need to know, are clear about the plan.
- Takes full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, including mistakes.
- Always acts in the companys best interest, regardless of whether it is difficult or unpopular.
- Ensures others are on track for achieving their goal.
Alternatively, you are also welcome to contact either Nikki van Tonder on 021 180 0776
Please note that correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates for this position. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
