Machine Attendant - Cape Town at Lactalis South Africa

Job Description    

• Join Lactalis at our Ice Cream Plant in Cape Town as a Machine Attendant, responsible for Identifying machine and packaging related non-conformance, troubleshooting breakdowns, monitoring of the production process and general housekeeping on and around the machine. Must have at least 2 years experiences within a manufacturing environment. 

Required Skills    

•  Grade 10 or equivalent.
•  At least 4 years experiences within a ice cream manufacturing environment.
•  Quality driven individual. 
•  Willingness to do repetitive work. 
•  Punctuality and attendance reliability is essential. 
•  Must be willing to work overtime, weekends, public holidays if and when required, shifts.
•  Ability to work in a team as well as independent. 
•  Be accurate and pay attention to detail. 
•  Be able to prioritize workloads and work under pressure.
•  Excellent problem solving skills. 

Duties & Responsibilities    

•  Ordering of materials. 
•  Quality checks to be done on materials. 
•  Pre start-up checks and maintaining of the necessary equipment to be done.
•  Adhere to all safety (SHER) and FSSC2200 requirements in the area.
•  Ensure that all safety checks are adhered to and in place.
•  Fill in all relevant documentation daily.  
•  Traceability codes should be recorded and documented to assist with problem solving.
•  Make sure that the highest product quality is achieved and waste kept at a minimum.
•  Ensure that accurate stock-taking is recorded on the relevant control document.
•  Ensure that area are neat and tidy end of shift.

Ad-hoc duties:

•  Daily checks and records to be updated and signed off. 
•  Familiar with offloading procedure of milk receiving and documentation.
•  Ordering of materials required for the daily mixing production. 
•  Make-up of batches according to the recipes sheets per product required. 
•  Assemble of equipment in the blending room.
•  Blending of materials in the blending room. 
•  Assist with the soft serve process and requirements when needed. 
•  Assist Bulk operators when required and needed.
•  Operating and problem solving of fruit feeder.
•  Understanding the metal detector requirements and processes.
•  Be knowledgeable of date-coder and box-coder. 
•  Familiar with the flavour room process with making up of colours and batches.
•  Adhere to cleaning schedules and procedures (Monthly Deep Clean)