Factory Hand (Bottling Plant)

You'll keep the line running at a snack food factory in Germiston, feeding, checking and packing product all shift. People who do well here are steady, honest and not scared to ask when something is unclear.

The work is in Germiston, Gauteng, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Wear hairnets, beard covers and gloves in food-safe zones
• Feed raw material or empty packaging into the machine at the start of the line
• Clean down machines and floors at the end of each run
• Check product for size, weight and seal faults and pull out rejects
• Hand over at shift change with notes on rejects and stoppages
• Pack finished product into cases and stack them by batch number
• Change over packaging film and labels when the line switches product

• Medically fit; some food plants ask for a medical check
• Grade 10 minimum, matric an advantage
• You follow hygiene rules without being reminded
• Able to stand for a full shift in a noisy, warm area

• NQF Level 2 manufacturing learnership completed
• Some basic first-aid training
• A food handler or basic HACCP awareness certificate

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

• 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.