Job Title: Packaging Process Artisan
Organisation: Nile Breweries
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About Organisation:
Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.
Job Summary: The Key Purpose of this role is to operate the process area according to work instructions, the execution of non-destructive quality checks and carrying out of routine maintenance. The process artisan has a primary focus on the asset care activities of the team.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Operating and Process Control
- Operating the process area according to the work instructions and adhering to usage standards
- Carrying out the required quality checks as described in the quality control and analysis work practice
- Recording waste on the appropriate documentation or information systems, and reviewing waste trends to identify problems or opportunities timeously
- Constantly reviewing process performance against target, and completing all short interval control documentation
- Responding rapidly to upstream or downstream triggers that result in stoppages
- Appropriate problem-solving approaches, as detailed in the problem-solving work practice must be followed
- Performing housekeeping tasks, applying 5S principles and following safe work practices
- Unsafe work practices must be identified and corrected. Assisting fellow team members in the execution of their tasks
Maintenance of Plant and Equipment
- Carry out in depth cleaning, lubrication and inspection of machines according to the work instructions, and following the schedules supplied by the maintenance planner
- Carrying out routine maintenance activities according to the maintenance schedule
- Where routine maintenance reveals larger problems, and the process artisan is unable to resolve these, it must be escalated to the team leader
- Taking part in maintenance and cleaning days
- This work must be executed in support of the maintenance support team and in accordance with the schedule issued by the maintenance planner
- Taking part in maintenance postmortems
- This must be done in support of maintenance specialist support
- Monitoring trends when conducting routine maintenance
- Where trends indicate the existence of underlying problems, corrective action must be Quality Control and Analyses taken
- This corrective action may involve the SBU, the maintenance controller or maintenance support
- When operating, the process artisan must carry out the non-destructive quality checks and analyses
- The list of checks to be carried out are contained in the work instructions
- Recording the results of quality checks on the relevant documentation or information system
- Where production does not meet quality standards the process artisan must try to identify and resolve problems using the appropriate techniques
- If they are unable to resolve the problem themselves, it must be escalated to the team leader for further direction.
Communication
- Actively participating in shift meetings, asking questions to test understanding and contributing suggestions
- Making use of the gap list to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities
- Fully understanding the team goals and participating in team goal review sessions
- Where FFA’s have been initiated, the process artisan may be asked to participate
- Making use of relevant communication media (e.g., shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues
Problem Solving
- When problems occur, applying the appropriate techniques the identify and correct the problem
- Where the process artisan is unable to resolve the problem, involve fellow team members or escalate to the team leader if necessary
- Where problems have been resolved, verify that the problems have been eliminated
Continuous Improvement
- Using run/control charts and trend analysis, to identify sources of waste and variation in the process
- Using short stop analysis, Pareto charts and other tools seek to identify opportunities to simplify activities
- Where improvement opportunities have been identified, these must be recorded on the team gap list
- The process artisan should involve other team members in evaluating opportunities and call-in specialist resources to assist if required
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- N3 Qualification, Mechanical or Electrical
- Trade Test Mechanical or Electrical
- Work experience as a day artisan
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 4th September 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: no experience required