Job Description

Job Summary Minimum requirements:

• Qualified Miller - trade tested in maize and/or wheat milling technologies
• Minimum 3 years milling experience in a high-capacity plant (+ 30 tons/hour)
• Fumigation and Grading certification
• Advanced milling qualifications will be advantageous
• City and Guilds /NABIM qualifications will be advantageous .

Role and responsibilities:
Operational Tasks Roller Mills:

• Ensure break releases on Wheat Mills are carried out on a weekly basis as per instruction.
• Ensure all scrapers and roll brushes are checked per shift and changed if necessary.
• Ensure roll hopper exhausts are fully operational per shift.
• Ensure a balanced and consistent feed rate is maintained throughout the milling process.

Plansifter:

• Ensure all sifter maintenance is carried out as per requirements and schedules
• Ensure any burst covers are replaced on shift
• Ensure all inlet/outlet sleeves on sifter and purifiers are intact
• Ensure screens of all turbo sieves on Germ system is intact, clean and machine inside cleaned out regularly

Purifiers:

• Ensure all purifier brushes are fully operational and in good condition at all times Air tunnel on top of machines are clean and purifiers set.
• Ensure covers are taut and not blinded at all times
• Ensure correct separation on all concentrators and maize mill aspirators

Aspiration and Exhausts:

• Ensure manometer reading on all filters is on acceptable levels
• Ensure pneumatic hammer and pulsing unit on filter is working at all times
• Ensure heater banks always run at the correct temperature parameters.
• General Routine checks on efficient running of milling machines determined by the Head Miller
• Ensure correct flour stocks are available in the correct location as required by the production plan.
• Correct and effective setting and balancing of Milling machines including equipment in the screensroom.

Quality:

• Ensure that all final products are always maintained within internal specifications.
• Ensure gristing models are accurately monitored and that WIP levels are always maintained as determined by the Head Miller.
• Efficient cleaning and preparation of WIP materials.
• Ensure all finished products are tested, recorded, and actioned if required in the prescribed periods.
• Ensure reduction in waste on all milling plants.

Plant Performance:

• Maintain and achieve prescribed extraction rates on the respective milling plants.
• Maintain an OEE rating of 95% minimum on all milling plants.
• Accurate recording and reporting of production logs
• Reconciliation of the mass balance detail on each milling plant.
• Manage and maintain evaporative loss of each milling plant within the prescribed parameters.
• Proactively identify potential loss time incidents and appropriately action the corrective work required.

Risk and Safety:

• Compliance to all set safety policies and procedures
• Adherence to respective safety working practices of the plant.
• Drive the safety culture through practice and participate in hazard risk assessments.

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