About Tiger Brands

Tiger Brands is one of Africa’s largest and oldest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies, headquartered in South Africa. It manufactures, markets, and distributes a wide range of branded food, beverages, and personal and home care products across the African continent and in Chile.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain and Control equipment and process
• Performs the pre-start inspection routine & shutdown routine on all primary & secondary packing machines in the relevant area.
• Performs machine and product changeovers, includes cleaning of machinery and machine set-up.
• Operate dedicated equipment in a semi or fully automated processing environment where the product is differentiated by range, quantity, volumes, type of raw material and work in process.
• Feeding of consumables.
• Process monitoring.
• Selected adjustments.
• Start-Up equipment
• Operate equipment.
• Shut down processing equipment.
• Report downtimes, incidents and events to seniors.
• Communicate shift objectives, problem-solving solutions and production plans to internal suppliers, shift supervisor and other identified stakeholders
• Completes all relevant documentation to required standard and incorporates improvements where necessary
• Records line stoppages and breakdowns for troubleshooting and discussion with team members and reports to seniors
• Completes handover of activities & events after the shift
• Completion of any delegated tasks by superiors
• Record waste
• Ensure that the product quality of the output meets acceptable customer standards, organizational requirements and product specifications
• Conducts quality checks of in process material, and or finished products according to set quality standards (QC at source)
• Check input material according to specifications or workplace procedures
• Accepts or rejects material based on these checks (against set quality parameters)
• Perform first line maintenance on equipment
• Assists in the development and implementation of SOPs for maintenance and operations
• Conducts behavioural safety observations
• Adheres to key KPI’s
• To receive input materials per organisational procedures and specifications
• Ensures availability and efficient storage of material
• Ensures rejected material is uplifted or reworked
• Carries out stock rotation
• Non-conforming finished goods are identified, placed on hold and NCA raised
• Matric (maths & science) or equivalent (N3)
• At least 12 months of relevant training is required
• NQF3 packaging/processing qualification
• Working knowledge of Autonomous maintenance – AM steps 0, 1, 2, & 3 and Problem Solving Skills
• Manufacturing Loss Cost Approach
• Focused Improvement Tools (7 step Kaizen and Change over Kaizen)
• Ancillary Packing Equipment
• Main Packing Equipment
• Shrink wrapping
• Fork Lift driving
• Clerical tasks