Manufacturing
Accountable for specialist outputs, as well as initiating quality standards within defined work routines and policies.
Job Purpose
To ensure that the plant is available for production by carrying preventative maintenance, by attending to breakdowns and malfunctions, communicating effectively with the maintenance manager, production management and quality control personnel
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
- Adherence to Standards: Ensure strict adherence to Quality, Food, Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
- Enforcement: Enforce all food safety and health regulations, policies, and requirements at all times to guarantee a secure work environment.
- Personal Hygiene: Maintain exceptional personal hygiene as per the organization's code of conduct.
- Contamination Control: Raise awareness about potential physical product contamination and implement control measures to prevent it.
- Health and Safety Measures: Take reasonable precautions to prevent health and safety hazards. Follow the prescribed incident reporting procedure in case of accidents.
- Knowledge and Compliance: Stay updated with relevant business information, policies, processes, and procedures. Enforce compliance with legislative and statutory requirements, as well as GMP's (Good Manufacturing Practices).
- Training: Attend and enforce the implementation of learnings from training sessions related to Quality, Food Safety, and Health and Safety.
- Housekeeping: Maintain high levels of cleanliness and orderliness 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
