Bakery Production Hand (Early Shift)

You'll keep the line running at a soft drink bottling plant in Fourways, feeding, checking and packing product all shift. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

You'll report in Fourways. Relocation is not covered for this one. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Wear hairnets, beard covers and gloves in food-safe zones
• Help the machine operator clear jams and reload hoppers
• 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
• Move full bins and crates to the next station with a trolley
• Pack finished product into cases and stack them by batch number
• Change over packaging film and labels when the line switches product

• No problem wearing full PPE, including ear protection
• Available for rotating day and night shifts
• Grade 10 minimum, matric an advantage
• Medically fit; some food plants ask for a medical check
• Neat, reliable and on time for shift start

• NQF Level 2 manufacturing learnership completed
• Experience assisting on a packaging or filling machine
• A food handler or basic HACCP awareness certificate

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

• Name the products you worked on before, like "biscuit line" or "juice bottling". Factory recruiters read that faster than a job title.
• Mention that you can work rotating shifts right at the top. It is the first thing most factories filter on.