Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, November 01 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Key Purpose of a Process Artisan is to operate and maintain the Packaging process to achieve minimal variability in product quality, and maximum throughput whilst minimizing waste.

To provide engineering support to the maintenance function through the repairing, replacing or manufacturing of parts for plant, machines and equipment in manufacturing.

Key roles and responsibilities:
OPERATING AND PROCESS CONTROL:
• Operating equipment in Packaging process areas according to VPO standards
• Constantly reviewing process performance against target, and recording short stops and correcting any out of controls using the VPO tools
• Recording waste and movement of product on the appropriate documentation or information systems. Review trends to identify & resolve problems
• Carry out machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based team, take part, as functional expert
• Interpret and implement production plan for shift
• Operate manual and automatic machines on line as per standards
• Monitor production processes on shift and correct any negative trends
• Ensure process quality and productivity

MAINTENANCE OF PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carrying out autonomous operations as defined for the process areas.
• Identify defective plant, and report these through to the Team Leader to assist with resolution.
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows. Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities.
• Assisting the Machine specialist in executing running repairs on shift.
• Conduct autonomous operations
• Carry out repairs / maintenance.
• Complete equipment inspections and relevant documentations

QUALITY CONTROL AND ANALYSIS
• Carrying out the required quality checks, analyses and recording the results on the appropriate information system.
• The list of quality checks to be executed is contained in the work instructions.
• react to the results using the VPO tools supplied

COMMUNICATION
• Actively participate in shift meetings, asking questions to test understanding and contributing suggestions. making use of the action logs to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities.
• Fully understand the team Dream and contribute to achieving it.
• Make use of relevant communication media (e.g., shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
• Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality and maintenance are communicated.

Minimum Requirements:
• Technical qualification (N3 or similar – Mechanical/ electrical)
• Mechanical aptitude
• Machine specific experience
• 1-2 years as an Artisan
• Experience within a packaging FMCG industry




Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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