Packaging Technician (Bellville Factory)
Purpose Of The Role
To supervise the packaging team on shift, ensuring production pallets are scored and maintained, adhering to production, quality and safety standards, as well as maintaining packaging equipment on shift.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervises and supports the packaging process (Labor, shift change over, line stoppages, repacks and admin including sign off on job changes)
- Attends to breakdowns and reports to incidences to Shift Manager timeously.
- Applies faultfinding skills, implements improvements on packaging equipment and identifies and fixes problems on the equipment.
- Maintains packaging equipment by ensuring smooth running of equipment from lowerator to shrouder out feed.
- Responsible for the effective running of Palletizer, Shuttle Car and MSK, ensures that all shrouding conforms to the SOP's.
- Verifies and compares production on GR8 vs. actual pallets produced. Compares production pallet count with warehouse pallet count. Gives input to OEE capturing.
- Ensures that pallets are correctly stacked in demarcated areas.
- Responsible for housekeeping through the scrap packaging, cleaning and cullet removal.
Required Skills / Qualifications / Competencies - Grade 12 + Electrical or Fitter Trade test (Red seal) a pre-requisite
- 2 years mechanical / electrical experience in a technical environment a pre-requisite.
- Must be prepared to do shift work and work overtime when required.
- Proven team leadership experience.
- Basic PC literacy.
- Experience in high-speed packaging equipment.
- Strong technical aptitude.
- Strong Problem solving / Fault finding ability.
- Decision Making and Action Orientation
- Dealing with Pressure and setbacks
- Attention to Detail
Desired Skills - Fitter Trade test
- Electrician Trade Test
- Red Seal
- High Speed Packaging
- Palletizer
- Packaging Equipment
- Shrouder
Desired Qualification Level - Grade 12 / Matric
About The Employer About Ardagh Group:
Ardagh Group is a global leader in metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world's leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded in 1932. Since then, we have grown rapidly to a team of more than 16,000 people with revenues of almost $7 billion. Today we have a presence across Europe and the Americas.
Did you know that Ardagh produce many of the beverage cans and bottles you drink your favorite beverages from?
Did you know we produce metal and glass packaging which are permanent materials, meaning they can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality?
Did you know we produce more than 160 million containers per day?
What We Offer - This role poses exciting growth and development opportunities, with a promising career within the Ardagh group.
- Ardagh provides normal large company benefits e.g. medical aid, provident / pension fund, 13th cheque and educational assistance.
- Ardagh temporary / FTC employees that meet the minimum requirements are required to register their application on Career Junction.
- This position will be filled in accordance with the Company's equity objectives. The advertisement has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional /relevant information as criteria for short-listing. Correspondence will only be entered into with short listed candidates. Ardagh reserves the right not to fill vacancies.
Employer & Job Benefits - Medical Aid
- Provident / Pension Fund
- 13th Cheque
- Educational Assistance
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