Meat Processing Line Worker

Good factory hands stay for years, and this meat processing plant in Benoni trains from day one. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

This post is Benoni-based, with most of your time spent at a meat processing plant. There's a probation period of three months before the contract is confirmed.

• Stop the line with the emergency stop if anything jams or looks unsafe
• Wear hairnets, beard covers and gloves in food-safe zones
• Pack finished product into cases and stack them by batch number
• Change over packaging film and labels when the line switches product
• Clean down machines and floors at the end of each run
• Follow lock-out procedures when helping with cleaning inside machines

• Basic reading and counting for batch sheets
• Neat, reliable and on time for shift start
• Able to stand for a full shift in a noisy, warm area
• Available for rotating day and night shifts

• Previous work in a food or FMCG factory
• Experience assisting on a packaging or filling machine

• Company transport on some night shifts
• Path to machine operator after six months
• Staff shop with discounted factory products
• 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.