Jobs at Tetra Pak

Quality Assurance Engineer

Tetra Pak South Africa has an opening for an experienced QA Engineer, who will be responsible for the elimination of claims and reduction of waste by establishing optimal process conditions, seeking to reduce losses in the converting process with a consequent reduction in converting costs, as well as reduction of the total number of complaints / claims and increase customer satisfaction by improving the quality of our products through the use of World Class Manufacturing (WCM). Provide support, coach and guidance to task groups responsible for the reduction of losses and improving the quality of our products through the use of quality tools (FMEA, Ishikawa, Cause Effect, PM Analysis, 5 Why, etc.)

What Will You Do

Overall process management 

• Implement process kaizen improvements in all stages of the process. 

• Ensure mandatory standards are in place, and best practice is in place

• Implement the optimal process conditions through the process control. 

• Perform daily analysis of performance losses and rework in the converting process. 

• Develop and put in place process parameters and ensure they are trained and used 

• Establish process Q-Points and ensure they are trained and used

• Ensure packaging material spec is in place, updated and complied with

• Develop SPC system and ensure staff use the system accordingly

Overall supplier management - KPIs

• Perform supplier evaluating

• Perform supplier auditing

• Perform common agenda with suppliers

• Perform monitoring and control of improving the quality of our suppliers, through action plans

• Monitor supplier performance based on incoming inspection

Overall customer management - KPIs

• Claims reporting

• Claims analysis

• Eradication of claims

• Implement COA’s system

 
Overall claims management 

• Eradication of customer claims

• Perform technical analysis of customer claims and complaints. 

• Proper deployments of claim and putting action plan in place to eradicate

• Ensure customer reports are compiled and sent to customers on time

• Ensure that supplier related losses & non-conforming product is claimed from suppliers

Six sigma management

• Consolidating CPk data and reporting to global 

• Improving six sigma index and ensuring global target is met

Total Barriers management

• Monitor barriers efficiency and optimise barrier management. 

Quality Maintenance Pillar

• Serve as a member of the pillar for maintaining quality. 

• Update Pillar board with deployment and action plan

• Defect waste and claims reduction 

Other

• Participate in activities by analysis of risks related to Health and Work Safety. 

• Perform other related tasks and / or forming part of the quality process, always necessary. 

• Visit suppliers for assessing complaints

• Lead WCM team

Who You Are!

• BSc Degree (Mech Eng, Chem. Eng, Elect Eng or Industrial Eng) equivalent tertiary qualifications. 

• At least 3 years Quality Assurance experience in an FMCG environment, including experience of working within a quality-driven and WCM / TPM driven environment. 

• Printing experience would be an add advantage.

• Knowledge and experience of printing, laminating or filling machine will be an advantage

• Proficiency in MS Office, SAP R/3 would be an advantage

• High degree of accuracy in collating, checking and analysing data and information

• Printing and coating process knowledge

• Prior knowledge of customer relationships

• Strong business communication skills at all levels and disciplines; both written and oral

• Able to maintain an eye for detail in a pressurised working environment whilst maintaining consistency and courtesy 

• Able to manage multiple tasks while demonstrating time management / prioritisation skills 

• Able to understand and work within defined processes 

• Able to effectively negotiate solutions

• Able to work in a matrix organisation aligned to account teams and specialist functions

• Able to demonstrate a flexible working attitude

• Able to work effectively in a team environment

• Leadership, planning & organizing skills

• Conflict Management skills

• Decision making skils

• Customer orientated

• Performance oriented

• Team Player

• Attention to details

• Analytical skills

What We Offer!

• Variety of exciting challenges with ample opportunities for development and training in a truly global landscape

• Culture that pioneers a spirit of innovation where our engineering experts drive visible results

• Equal opportunity employment experience that values diversity and inclusion

• Market competitive compensation and benefits with flexible working arrangements

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What Will You Do

Our Future Talent Programme - Technical Track is a 1-year programme that will develop your engineering skills and bring you leading technical knowledge in an accelerated way.

From day one, you’ll be delivering results as part of the team and hold an actual position. Your manager will plan the content of your programme and support you in your development journey. You will work in various parts of Tetra Pak and gain experience from a network of Colleagues all over the world. And that is just the beginning of your Tetra Pak career. After the programme finishes you will have gained valuable experience to help you continue your exciting career within our company.

As Future Talent- Service Engineer trainee, you will:

• Participate in preparing customer site for installation events, assembling machines.

• Participate in execution of preventive maintenance activities.

• Inform relevant Tetra Pak staff in a timely manner about discovered Technical Issues and play key part in identifying the root cause and resloving issue.

• Participate in the installation of relevant rebuilding/upgrade kits.

• Inform relevant Tetra Pak Field Staff about ongoing service activities as well as of any issues affecting the customer or the quality of Tetra Pak service.

• Act as an ambassador for Tetra Pak at all times, ensuring good working relationships with the customer and Tetra Pak colleagues and that Tetra Pak’s reputation is sustained.

• Execute all work in accordance with Tetra Pak and Customer safety regulations and requirements. Execute all work in accordance with Tetra Pak standards and requirements regarding product quality and food safety. Escalate all discovered food safety, quality assurance and regulatory issues.

• Comply with all reporting requirements.

Who You Are

We believe you have:

• N3-N5 Electrical trade and Millwright or Instrument Mechanician

• P1 and P2 or In-service training will be an added advantage

• Recently obtained Millwright/Instrument Mechanician in year 2019/2020

• Attitude and Flexibility is key - must be willing to work long hours, overtime, weekends, public holidays and away from home (ad hoc as per customer requirements)

• Extensive travelling - internationally and locally

• Valid Passport and Driver’s License is required

We Offer You

1. Variety of exiting challenges with ample opportunities for development and training in a truly glbal landscape

2. Culture that pioneers spirit of innovation where our engineering genius drives visible results

3. Equal opportunity employment experience that values difference and diversity

4. Market competitive compensaton and benefits with flexible working arrangements 

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Future Talent Production Engineer

Would you like to start your career "in good company"? We are looking for talented and highly motivated new graduates to join our talent programme and become the next generation of leaders in our industry.

We are looking for young, talented & ambitious future Engineers who are ready to join Tetra Pak's Factory team.

Tetra Pak South Africa has an opening in Durban (Pinetown) for two Future Talent: Production Engineer to fill a rewarding and challenging roles that will allow you freedom with accountability while working directly with our Converting Factory.

The successful candidates will report to the Production and Maintenance Manager based in Durban (Pinetown).

What Will You Do

Our Future Talent Programme - Technical Track is a 1-year programme that will develop your engineering skills and bring you leading technical knowledge in an accelerated way.

From day one, you’ll be delivering results as part of the team and hold an actual position. Your manager will plan the content of your programme and support you in your development journey. You will work in various parts of Tetra Pak and gain experience from a network of Colleagues all over the world. And that is just the beginning of your Tetra Pak career. After the programme finishes you will have gained valuable experience to help you continue your exciting career within our company.

As Future Talent: Production Engineer, you will:

• Design & implementation of global projects in local environment.

• Maintenance Activities - Fault finding.

• Production and operations activities – process and operations

• Programming - HMI systems, Scada systems, Siemans, Allen Bradley etc.

• Learning about the process - Automating and Managing.

• Automation on converting factory machinery (laminator, printer, slitter machines etc).

• 10% -15% exposure to automation on Tetra Pak Filling Machines/Lines.

Who You Are

We believe you have:

• Minimum of University Degree in Electrical heavy/light current, Electronics, Mechatronics, Instrumentation

• Must be a recent Graduate (in year 2020/2021) 

• Exposure to PLC, Siemens, Allen Bradley programming (Added advantage but not required)

• English Fluency is critical (read, write and speak)

• WCM (World Class Manufacturing) knowledge is an added advantage

• MUST be a South African citizen with valid ID - EE targets apply

• Valid drivers license and passport is required

• Self starter

• Self motivated

• Able to learn on your own

• Willing and able to drive own learning

• Technical curiosity

• Goal driven

• Resilient 

• Willing to work long hours

• Ability to multitask

We Offer You

1. Variety of exiting challenges with ample opportunities for development and training in a truly global landscape

2. Culture that pioneers spirit of innovation where our engineering genius drives visible results

3. Equal opportunity employment experience that values difference and diversity

4. Market competitive compensation and benefits with flexible working arrangements 

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Automation Engineer

We are looking for an automation engineer would be actively responsible for design, implementation, testing and commissioning of automation solutions. The incumbent would be supporting the Market companies with developing automation strategies and executing automation projects. The selected candidate would provide necessary technical support for the Africa cluster and service to our customers. He/She would also be expected to support for automation pre project costing and sales activities.

Tetra Pak South Africa an international Food Processing/Packing company seeks a highly qualified Automation Engineer to support the regions of South, East, West & Maghreb region if required, the role will be based in the Cape Town.

What you will do

As an Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting the Market companies with developing automation strategies and executing automation projects.

• Providing necessary technical support for the Africa cluster and service to our customers.

• Reviewing electrical drawings, P&ID documents & process descriptions.

• Providing support with pre projects costing, customer meetings, site evaluation, creation of scope documents.

• Understanding the Tetra Pak Plant Master internal methodology and providing cost estimates for electrical & automation costing.

• Understanding the S88 and S95 standards, PCS 7 experience will provide a great platform to be successful in role.

• Creating of BOM for electrical and automation solutions.

• Coordinating for electrical and automation items on SAP. 

• Developing and commissioning of plant automation systems (hardware and software) as part of an overall production solution combined by process and automation.

• Development of tools to enable system integrator support for rapid software engineering and hardware creation.

• Technical support, commissioning and troubleshooting activities – remote and/or at site (Africa region).

• Creating software design documents, prepare and perform FAT tests with end customers.

Who you are

We believe you have :

• BSC or BTech Degree in Electrical Engineering, light current, Process instrumentation

• Equivalent ND in Electrical Engineering, light current, Process instrumentation

• 3-5 years proven ability in automation and electrical engineering

• Knowledge of SAP is an added advantage

• PLC programming (Siemens, Allen Bradley & Wonderware) experience is critical

• Food manufacturing experience is essential

• Project knowledge

• English language proficiency

• Willingness to travel 50% of your  working time

We offer you

• Variety of exciting challenges with ample opportunities for development and training in a truly global landscape.

• Culture that pioneers spirit of innovation where our engineering genius drives visible results.

• Equal opportunity employment experience that values difference and diversity.

• Market competitive compensation and benefits with flexible working arrangement.