Junior Engineer - Hammarsdale at Rainbow Chicken

Role Purpose:

• The Junior Engineer will be responsible for various tasks in the Agric space ranging from planning of projects;cost control of these projects and other duties in conjunction with the Engineering team.

Required Qualifications:

• BSc Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Valid Driver's License and own vehicle

Required Experience:

• 3 years of trade experience of which a minimum of 1 years in a supervisory category
• Excellent understanding of mechanical, refrigeration, and electrical engineering

Key responsibilities:

Project Planning

• Prioritizing scheduling and allocation of tasks to different discipline of the engineering department, with the assistance of the planner and plant engineer.

Project Cost control - control of approved budget and subcategories

• Implementation and completion of Capex Strategize capex focus to reduce plant down time and improve efficiencies of machines and lines.
• Ensure that health and safety requirements as per the Rainbow standard are adhere to with regards to specifying new equipment.
• Process changes control documentation with regards to all equipment and plant changes with proven records for audit purposes.
• Champion conditional-based monitoring systems to budget/ plan for Projects to reduce unbudgeted spend.
• Conduct feasibility analyses and proposals that promote efficiency improvements and cost saving through ad - hoc, based projects (separate from unbudgeted) and alternative process flow developments.
• Ensure that all project work in plant is carried out and completed to the highest level of trade-man ship quality and to safe food requirements.
• Manage outside contractors to ensure the integrity of the engineering team and carry out corrective action when required.

Department Management

• Loss control, asset management, spares utilization and stock holding, all administrative duties.
• Conduct weekly project meetings to insure all aligned and that capex targets dates met in view of the year planner.
• Preparation of all capitalized major maintenance and capital request motivations and supporting documentation.
• Creating and keeping an archive on each project for future reference.
• Conduct time and motion studies on specific areas of the plant with a view to implement flow improvement, ergonomics, and engineer bottlenecks out by use of layout changes or equipment introduction.
• Handle all investigations around IOD’s to establish all the facts to ensure prevention where possible and to address unacceptable or dangerous behavior that can lead to injuries.
• Safety control of contractors.
• Supervision and Administration:
• Develops new work schedules for all activities to be performed on newly installed equipment.
• Management of the planning and admin functions of the engineering department.
• Effective capex budget management.
• Management of stores and procurement department.

Repairs and Renovations

• Coordinates renovations of existing facilities and the construction of new facilities.
• Coordinates and inspects major contract work on the electrical, refrigeration, mechanical and plumbing, and other related systems.
• Ensures that the building has adequate heating, lighting, and ventilation and that it is properly cleaned, maintained and in good working condition.

Safety and Security

• Keep a process control register and execute all such process control requests to ensure food safety is not jeopardized.
• Prepare a monthly PCC report for Group Engineering Manager.