Packaging Line Operator (Rotating Shifts)

Machines set the pace at this plastic moulding plant in Pretoria West; you keep up and catch the faults. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

You'll be based at a plastic moulding plant in Pretoria West. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps.

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

• You follow hygiene rules without being reminded
• Available for rotating day and night shifts
• Medically fit; some food plants ask for a medical check
• Basic reading and counting for batch sheets
• Neat, reliable and on time for shift start

• Staff shop with discounted factory products
• Free PPE, overalls and hairnets
• Path to machine operator after six months

• Name the products you worked on before, like "biscuit line" or "juice bottling". Factory recruiters read that faster than a job title.
• Do not wear jewellery or long nails to the interview if it is on site. Food factories notice and it counts.