Technical Operator

Job Title: Technical Operator

Reports to: Packaging Team Leader

About us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

A Packaging line consists of 9 process machines (De-palletizer, Palletizer, Unpacker, Packer, Washer, EBI, Filler, pasteurizer, labeler).

The role requires one (at any one moment) to operate any of the packaging line process machines as per manufacturers stated (standard) operating procedures to produce product that meets stated quality requirements as per the quality standards in a very safe manner, while ensuring high plant reliability, minimal process and component waste.

This is driven with the support of a full time Shift Packaging Manager, and competent asset care and quality teams.

Context

The role involves working a twelve-hour shift (Day and Night); Coordinating operations up and downstream involving logistics, Brewing and contracted supply chain team with different set standards and KPIs.

UBL operates in a liberalized and competitive market.  The consumer is now more discerning and demands both quality and value for money.

The company seeks to perform all its activities in ways that prevent environmental pollution and ensure the occupational health and safety of its employees, contractors, suppliers and visitors.

Financial Impact

• Delivery of Plan (>90%) on shift guarantees planned sales volume for the day / week /month
• Contributes to the delivery of Productivity goals for COGs (minimize waste to <1%)

Stakeholders

This role involves close collaboration with:

• Shift Packaging Manager
• Quality analyst
• Packaging Asset Care team
• All Sectional technicians
• Perfect Plant team
• Logistics

Role Responsibilities:

• Ensure safety requirements for self and those working around the machine are rigorously met. This is aimed at achieving zero harm/injury.
• Operate any of the packaging line process machines as per manufacturers stated (standard) operating procedures with the rated Machine Speeds to produce products that meet stated requirements as per the Quality and Food safety standards.
• Carry out basic quality checks through product testing, rectify anomalies and take corrective action. This is aimed at achieving quality index of 100%.
• Perform scheduled autonomous, preventive and corrective maintenance tasks and participate in root cause analysis/5why to ensure targeted plant reliability of about 95%.
• Ensure process and component wastes are below target (<1%).
• To consistently update process records as required by the Quality systems.
• Does on the job training to Interns/Trainees and new recruits.
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned by the team leader or head of function.

Experience / skills required:

• Ordinary Diploma in electrical, mechanical or instrumentation engineering field
• 2 years in a FMCG environment
• Have worked on shift system 24hr [rotational. ]
• Self-motivated
• Great collaborator
• Result oriented
• Quality oriented
• Time conscious
• Safety conscious
• Able to work long hours
• Target oriented

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one. 

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. 

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