Block Operator
Listing reference: twizz_000590
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 9 April 2025
Position summary
Industry: Food & Beverages
Job category: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Queenstown
Contract: Permanent
EE position: Yes
Introduction
Twizza is the fastest growing, affordable, quality beverage company in South Africa supplying local markets and selected neighboring countries from our manufacturing facilities in Queenstown, Middelburg (Mpumalanga) and Cape Town. We are a passionate, innovative, and entrepreneurial organization committed to excellence, collaboration, transparency, respect, and inspiration.
Ensure machine settings and operations are correct, or adjusted, to ensure that a perfect filled bottle is produced with the right quality specification from the preforms manufactured at Twizza; while managing waste streams, and machine availability
Job description
Operating of processes
- Responsible for running the blower, the filler and mixer
- Responsible for flavour change at the mixer, filler, and blower
- Flavour Change:
- Select the right product at the flavour room (FIFIO). Discuss with Team Leader – Your line and flavour room
- Select right product at mixer and follow SOP for flavour start up at mixer
- Select right product at filler and follow SOP for flavour start up at the filler
- Do a 50-bottle run start up and make sure the product is right:
- Taste
- Colour
- Brix
- CO2
- During flavour change drain caps if necessary and ensure that all are drained
- During flavour change especially when preform colour or size is changed remove all bottles, caps and preforms from blower, filler, mixer and surrounding area.
- Check product on every hour during the run as in D and record findings.
Check bottle for defects on the hour for:
- Pearlescence
- Solid base with small centre
- Straight neck
- Check rejections at the checkmat and investigate the reason
- Make sure that all the rejection faults are switch on at checkmat
- Check preform rejections and inform team leader of unnecessary rejections
- Decant rejected bottles
- Remove decanted bottles on a regular basis
- Decant rejected bottles
- Remove decanted bottles on a regular basis
- Clean blower, filler and mixer and areas surrounding it
- Clean filter v700 for base cooling as soon as possible after start of shift
- Clean all sensors on-line till past checkmat including checkmat cameras as soon as possible after start of shift
- Help with maintenance of preform hopper, preform conveyors, blower, filler, and mixer as per instruction of the maintenance manager on maintenance day
- Receive your area as in point 5 in a clean, running condition
- Hand your area as in point 5 over in a clean, running condition
- Report any faults or problems asap
- Put your own preforms while preform loader is on lunch
- No lunch during flavour change
- Line 2
- Do size change as per sop for blower moulds and filler star wheels.
- Make 100% sure that everything is right by jogging the machine and checking the area where changes took place
- Set the conveyors, checkmat and sensors for specific size till the first flowbin. Run a bottle.
- Documentation as per QMS
- Waste Management
Level 1 maintenance
Autonomous maintenance Level 1 - 4
Cleaning in process
Machine process specific
Fault Diagnosis and Repair, Root Cause Analysis (5Y) Completion
Breakdown management
Time to detect, time to correct
Housekeeping
General cleaning standards obtained and sustained
Health, safety, quality, and environment
- Safe work environment
- Healthy work environment
- Completion on QMS documents
Minimum requirements
Qualification:
· Grade 12
Experience
· 1 years’ experience in blow moulding equipment
· 1 years’ experience in beverage industry
Benefits
funeral policy
Staff account