PROCESS ENGINEER

Vacancy

African Deli, based in Walvis Bay, was founded in 2013 with the purpose of producing cost-effective ready to eat foodas well as bringing consumer-friendly packaging solutions to the market. The consumer without a fridge or protected storing space can now store our products for 24 months in a room temperature environment. We strive to bring healthy foods into people’s homes. The Process Engineer is responsible for facilitating the manufacturing of products by leading the Production and Maintenance department by ensuring that astandardized, optimum. efficient, and profitable world class manufacturing system is in place and maintained.

Education & Skills:

• Honors degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering OR Qualification in a relevant Production and Manufacturing Engineering field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Pouch Food Manufacturing industry
(FMCG), Heat treatment products processing. Mass production and Maintenance.

Additional Competencies:

• Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma certification and application experience will be an added advantage.
• Project management in terms of product development and production line units installations will be an added advantage.
• Working knowledge of various Total Quality management systems ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 1800, FSSC
22 000, HALAL and HACCP systems
• Advanced knowledge in Programmable Logical Control (PLCs) systems will be a distinct advantage.
• Knowledge of customization of Enterprise Resources Planning systems in terms of general ledgers, Bill of Materi-als, Auto manufacturing and retailing.
• Attention to detail & Good with mathematical models, work study models and production models systems such as batch processing and mass production.
• Deadline oriented and point on planning skills.
• Depth knowledge of a vast range of industrial machinery applications in the packaging solutions sector.
• Competence with training skills is an added advantage as the post requires a lot of training staff

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for new product develop-ment, production lines designing and installation, production process flows designing, and maintenance of production process systems.
• Implementing lean manufacturing systems with an intent to lower production costs
• Maintaining manufacturing equipment through preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Providing technical support and training ofemployees on factory equipment.
• Implement continuous improvement methods, minimizing production waste and ensure cost effective manufacturing initiatives.
• Generation of departmental budgets. production and maintenance reports and projects management.
• Demand planning, capacity planning. material planning and manpower planning.
• Championing safety, health. and environment following regulative guidelines.
• Computing or performing auto-manufacturing processes on SAGE system, continuous design of the system modules to increase efficiency.