Factory Hand (Bottling Plant)

You'll keep the line running at a furniture assembly factory in Umlazi, feeding, checking and packing product all shift. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

You'll be based at a furniture assembly factory in Umlazi. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps.

• Follow lock-out procedures when helping with cleaning inside machines
• 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
• Change over packaging film and labels when the line switches product
• Weigh ingredients or additives against the recipe card

• Medically fit; some food plants ask for a medical check
• Grade 10 minimum, matric an advantage
• No problem wearing full PPE, including ear protection
• Basic reading and counting for batch sheets

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

• Free PPE, overalls and hairnets
• 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.
• Mention that you can work rotating shifts right at the top. It is the first thing most factories filter on.