Job Description
Ensure that all manufacturing equipment’s are serviced and maintained according to specifications and in line with good engineering practice . Knowledge of conveyor belts, wire meshes modular belts, bearings, make use mechanical tools such as spanners, hammers, taps, hacksaws, grease guns, allen keys, pipe wrenches, bearing pulleys, heaters, dissembling and assembling machines
Duties & Responsibilities
- Repair failures on equipment’s to restore functionality of the equipment
- Carry out preventative maintenance work to ensure that equipment’s performs are at ultimate output
- Carry out root cause analysis to prevent re-occurrence of failures
- Ensure job cards are completed timeously and all relevant information is Captured
- Carry out daily inspections on the machines and report any defects that may have noticed
- Be able carry out Stripping of production machineries for cleaning, sanitising and Greasing when required to work graveyard shift
- Assist with production lines start-ups and preparations on Sunday night
- Ensure all equipment is made safe before work is carried out and all safety equipment are functional at all times
- Decide on which parts needs replacement and any additional work required
- Decide on additional activity that is required to improve performance
- Assist production team in machine start-ups and set-ups every morning
- To organise and pre-planned maintenance activities on the basis of repairing plant machineries
- Assist with covering up electrical parts before cleaning takes place in the machineries after production
- To comply with the requirements of Health and Safety, other relevant legislation and RCL Foods policies and when carrying out maintenance repairs on production lines
- Check oil levels according to specifications and carry out lubrication schedules
- Adhere Quality and Food Safety requirements
- Ensure ongoing implementation (and where possible improvement) of the Quality and Food Safety system through the systematic implementation of the relevant food safety requirements as defined in the Food Safety RACI Matrix and relevant policies and procedures (SOP’s).
Minimum Requirements
- Matric / Grade 12
- N3 Qualification or
- NCV Technical qualifications
- 2 - 5 years’ experience on production line machines as an operator
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