Heatset Operator

About the Company

Belgotex is Africa’s leading carpet and artificial grass manufacturer. As a soft flooring specialist we design, make, and distribute high-quality broadloom and modular carpets with custom solutions available to the commercial market. Our extensive product portfolio includes luxury and specialist vinyls and artificial grass.

Corporate Values:
Better Together: We believe that people inspire greatness. It takes a team to achieve our world class standards, and we can’t do any of this alone.

We Tread Softly: We are a recognised world leader for sustainability practices, asking less of the planet in all that we do.

Deep Focus: We are on a journey of vertical growth to deliver specialised flooring solutions to Africa and the world.

Curiosity: True innovation starts with a desire to explore and achieve the unimaginable.

Courage: We’re not afraid to ask big questions, even if it means asking more of ourselves.

Purpose of this Role:
To efficiently perform all jobs relating to creeling, machine operating and packing of yarns in the Heat Set/Pattern Split division. This position reports to the Heatset supervisor.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & OUTPUTS**:

- **Production Management - Deep Focus**
- Responsible for constantly monitoring the tension devices to remove any foreign matter; tension on yarn to be monitored using a tension meter.
- Responsible for monitoring the number of ends running into the Heatset machine to ensure that if one end breaks, the remaining ends are cut off immediately, and the correct number of ends re-threaded into the machine.
- Attend to yarn breaks immediately and ensure that the winders run continuously.
- Use the splicing gun to join the yarn.
- Ensure that all aspirated waste is weighed and removed at the end of each shift.
- Responsible for labelling all bobbins produced at Heatset and Pattern Split.

2.**Stakeholder Relationships**
- Attend daily shift team briefings and relay critical information to the Shift Supervisor to be constantly updated of issues requiring attention.
- Constantly update the shift supervisor on quality standards and product specific issues during the shift.
- Work with the other shift operators to implement solutions to quality defects or product specification issues detected.

3.**Reporting and Documentation**
- Ensure that all processes, recipes, and production specifications are documented into required SOP and process flow formats and stored centrally as per agreed document management system.
- Ensure the most up to date SOPs and _transactional documentation_ are followed to ensure consistency of process

4.**Safety, Health, Environment - We Tread Softly**
- Perform all shift activities that ensure compliance with applicable safety, health and environment legislation and audit requirements.
- Clean the Heat Set/Pattern Split department to ensure that housekeeping standards are always maintained.
- Ensure housekeeping is kept to **5S standards.**
- Grade 12 / Matric with Math’s is essential.
- CTFL Learnership or 1 year’s relevant production experience in Heat Set/Pattern Split is essential.
- Communication skills in line with the Belgotex values.
- High attention to detail.
- Problem solving skills.
- Decision making skills.