Quality Sorter (Packaging Factory)

Machines set the pace at this industrial bakery in Mthatha; you keep up and catch the faults. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

This post is Mthatha-based, with most of your time spent at an industrial bakery. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Clean down machines and floors at the end of each run
• Stop the line with the emergency stop if anything jams or looks unsafe
• Change over packaging film and labels when the line switches product
• Help the machine operator clear jams and reload hoppers
• Check product for size, weight and seal faults and pull out rejects
• Hand over at shift change with notes on rejects and stoppages
• Move full bins and crates to the next station with a trolley

• You follow hygiene rules without being reminded
• Available for rotating day and night shifts
• Basic reading and counting for batch sheets
• Neat, reliable and on time for shift start
• Grade 10 minimum, matric an advantage
• Able to stand for a full shift in a noisy, warm area

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

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

• 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.