Bakery Production Hand (Early Shift) – Fixed-Term

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

The site is in Kariega; early starts mean public transport timing matters, so check your route before applying.

• Follow lock-out procedures when helping with cleaning inside machines
• Weigh ingredients or additives against the recipe card
• Check product for size, weight and seal faults and pull out rejects
• 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

• Grade 10 minimum, matric an advantage
• You follow hygiene rules without being reminded
• Available for rotating day and night shifts
• Medically fit; some food plants ask for a medical check
• No problem wearing full PPE, including ear protection
• Neat, reliable and on time for shift start

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

• Company transport on some night shifts
• Path to machine operator after six months
• Night-shift allowance on top of basic pay

• 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.