Packer

**Job Purpose**

To package finished product according to quality specification while achieving operational throughput requirements within a food safe and hygienic environment.

**Responsibilities**:

- Pack finished product on an various packing machines
- Reach production target per shift
- Ensure continuous quality monitoring and recording of results
- Ensure food safe and hygienic work area is maintained at all times
- Report all production downtime to supervisor/manager timeously
- Record and analyses downtime reasons.
- Deep cleaning of machine and area.
- Random tasks requested by HOD
- Invocom participation and facilitation

**Essential Competencies**:

- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Planning, organising and controlling
- Accuracy and high level of attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Numerical ability

**Qualification Requirements**:
Matric / Grade 12

**Experience Requirements**:

- 2 - 3 years milling industry experience
- 3 - 4 years’ experience as a packing operator

**Key Outputs**:

- Milling environment - hot and noisy
- Required to work outside of normal working hours (after hours and over time)
- Working with and on heavy equipment and plant (mechanical and electrical)
- Working Shift