Electrician

**DO YOU HAVE THE APPITITE TO GROW YOUR MAGIC?**

Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.

Founded in Belgium in 1919, From humble beginnings to worldwide success, join us on our journey and discover our history and heritage.

We’ve evolved from a father-and-son start-up in Belgium, to a global group with more than 9000 employees, 93 innovation centers, and more than 65 manufacturing operations across 81 countries to date. It’s with great pride that we look back on this century of hard work, courage, and innovation. Thank you for making it all possible and let’s continue building the next 100 years of shared success

Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

**ELECTRICIAN**
- (Johannesburg_, Longmeadow)_

**POSITION OVERVIEW**

Performing machine tending operations, operating a variety of machines in a production environment as well as maintaining machinery to ensure continued electrical operation and performance

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Maintenance of machinery and plant to ensure continued mechanical operation performance.
- Ensure preventative maintenance scheduled is actioned and adhered to. Report all challenges to the Maintenance Manager.
- Identify improvements to be made on all aspects of the production lines technically.
- To comply with the standby schedule, safety requirements as prescribed and any requirements of
- Ensure a root cause analysis is conducted for stops experienced on the production line.
- Ensure quality at source is maintained to drive a positive outcome in the production process.
- Perform other duties as per operational requirements.

**JOB MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**
- Matric (Grade 12) or recognized equivalent qualification.
- Must have passed a relevant trade Test as a Qualified Electrician.
- Must Have Minimum 5 years’ experience within a Manufacturing / production related facility.
- Must Have Good understanding of PLC’s and general programming.
- VSD’s and Servo Motors
- Steel Experience advantageous
- Wiring and panels
- Driver's license: B, C
- Available for standby.
- Work weekends if required.
- Team player and have the passion to grow.
- Ability to motivate and help others to reach their full potential.
- Ability to troubleshoot, analyse and resolve problems with minimum support.
- Mechanical Understanding
- Continuous Improvement

**REQUIRED COMPETENCIES**
- **Collaborating Effectively**: Ability to think and act as one team in a spirit of trust and respect. Being open to different ideas. Building formal and informal relationship networks.
- **Communicating Effectively**: Developing and delivering communications in diverse modes that generate a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- **Driving Performance**: Showing ambition and going the extra mile in achieving expected results. Driving sustainable operational excellence through diligent planning, prioritization, monitoring & effective use of resources.
- **Improving Continuously**: Being passionate about achieving high quality standards for oneself and the organization. Constantly looking for and taking advantage of improvement opportunities
- **Managing Customer Needs**: Being able and eager to find out what the internal or external customer wants and needs and to act accordingly. Making the life of the customer easier. Fostering a customer centric culture.
- Ethical, honest and utmost integrity - sharing Puratos values.

**_OFFER_**
- Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape._