Job Title: 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 provide engineering support to the maintenance function through the repairing, replacing or manufacturing of parts for plant, machines and equipment in manufacturing.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a safe, healthy, risk-free working environment at all times by abiding to all rules and regulations of the safety policies
- Perform maintenance and operation on various machines while ensuring that the machine is safe before maintenance tasks are carried out
- Maintain and repair plant & associated devices at minimum cost while maintaining highest quality standards
- Optimise and improve plant, process equipment & systems in case of Mechanical
- Need to ensure that all tasks performed meets the requirements of South African Bureau of Standards Act 1945
- Ensure that maintenance tasks are completed to the standard work instructions set out by ABInBev
- Standby duty required as per roster set out with minimum disruptions
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Education: Diploma in Mechanical engineering. Trade tested Mechanical artisan, Millwright or qualified welder, Ammonia CAT A & B Certification.
- Training: Min 2-3 months on the job training plus Manufacturer Basic Maintenance Training. Ideal 3-6 months on the job training.
- Experience: 1-2 years as an Artisan.
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Ability to solve problems on FMCG machines
- Ability to communicate technical knowledge to operation staff improving their skills sets
- Ability to train, coach and mentor operation staff on ATO and 5’s principles
- Ability to optimise usages and reduce wastage with permanent solutions
- Interpersonal Skills
- Work in Teams and Collaborate
- Ability to work no supervision (strong self-management practices)
- Ability to problem solve using basic problem solving tools (5 why; fishbone)
- Ability to reduce machine downtime to minimum while ensuring the all problems have permanent solutions
- Ability to analyse various graphical data and open gaps to improve performance
- Ability to identify non-standard work and tag the defects
- Ability to work out spares requirements for machines and request via the sap system
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 11th December 2025
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Level of Education: associate degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12