Production Line Worker (Food Factory)

You'll keep the line running at a plastic moulding plant in Johannesburg CBD, feeding, checking and packing product all shift. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

This post is Johannesburg CBD-based, with most of your time spent at a plastic moulding plant. Start date: as soon as possible for the right person.

• Clean down machines and floors at the end of each run
• Help the machine operator clear jams and reload hoppers
• Pack finished product into cases and stack them by batch number
• Weigh ingredients or additives against the recipe card
• Record batch codes and counts on the hourly production sheet

• Medically fit; some food plants ask for a medical check
• Basic reading and counting for batch sheets
• Able to stand for a full shift in a noisy, warm area
• Grade 10 minimum, matric an advantage
• Available for rotating day and night shifts
• You follow hygiene rules without being reminded

• NQF Level 2 manufacturing learnership completed
• A food handler or basic HACCP awareness certificate

• Staff shop with discounted factory products
• Night-shift allowance on top of basic pay
• 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.