Assembly Line Worker (Furniture Plant) – Permanent

You'll keep the line running at a meat processing plant in Brackenfell, feeding, checking and packing product all shift. It suits someone who likes knowing exactly what a good day's work looks like.

This post is Brackenfell-based, with most of your time spent at a meat processing plant. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Hand over at shift change with notes on rejects and stoppages
• Feed raw material or empty packaging into the machine at the start of the line
• Wear hairnets, beard covers and gloves in food-safe zones
• Record batch codes and counts on the hourly production sheet
• Change over packaging film and labels when the line switches product
• Follow lock-out procedures when helping with cleaning inside machines
• Pack finished product into cases and stack them by batch number

• Neat, reliable and on time for shift start
• Grade 10 minimum, matric an advantage
• No problem wearing full PPE, including ear protection
• Basic reading and counting for batch sheets

• Experience assisting on a packaging or filling machine
• NQF Level 2 manufacturing learnership completed

• Path to machine operator after six months
• Night-shift allowance on top of basic pay
• Company transport on some night shifts
• Free PPE, overalls and hairnets

• Do not wear jewellery or long nails to the interview if it is on site. Food factories notice and it counts.
• Name the products you worked on before, like "biscuit line" or "juice bottling". Factory recruiters read that faster than a job title.