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Shift Maintenance Technician (Electrical) at Upfield

About the job

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that’s free from plastic. We’ve got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We’ve been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we’re only just getting started.

Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world.

We have big ambitions to grow this business and we want to attract the right people – those that love what they do, thrive on responsibility and are looking for career defining opportunities.

Main Purpose Of The Role

As Shift Maintenance Technician, you will be responsible for overall maintenance of plant, machinery, facilities and utilities.

You will attend to machinery breakdowns, implement the maintenance schedule, troubleshoot electrical and basic mechanical failures, hence contribute towards the reduction of maintenance costs. You will also assist the stores clerk to order and keep stock of the right spares. This role reports to the Production and Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to all Upfield safety, health and environment procedures and standards.
  • Maintaining GMP standards in ensuring product quality is not compromised.
  • Carry out preventive and corrective maintenance on all plant and equipment as allocated by the engineering and production manager/ engineering leadership to guarantee plant safety, people safety, product quality and plant uptime.
  • Carry out troubleshooting, diagnosis and resolution of mechanical and electrical breakdowns that may occur in the plant and ensure losses due to plant downtime are within target.
  • Carry out root cause/breakdown analysis using problem solving tools such as 5 why’s, fishbone diagrams to prevent recurrence of equipment breakdowns.
  • Drive implementation of autonomous maintenance in the production floor by coaching the machine operators on CILT activities on each machine.
  • Carry out inspections and record keeping on all electrical systems e.g. UPS and generator.
  • Adhere to the upfield engineering stores inventory procedures i.e. issuance and spare parts management.

About you!

You’ll have to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and it will take hard work and determination; we will give you the ownership you need to make an impact.

You’ll have to deliver on the commitments you make. And we’ll give you the freedom and flexibility to do your job and build your own career.

At Upfield we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Key Skills

  • Working knowledge and skills in installing and maintenance of electrical/electronic system components such as Programable Logic Controllers (PLCs), sensors, relays, variable speed drives (VSDs), induction motors, servo motors etc.
  • Working knowledge in installation and maintenance of safety circuit systems such as interlock switches, emergency stops and safety relays
  • Ability to read and interpret wiring diagrams
  • Working knowledge and skills in installing and maintenance of production and processing equipment such as conveyors, geared motors, filling equipment etc
  • Working knowledge and skills in installing and maintenance of utility equipment such as HVAC, compressed air systems
  • Experience with control systems e.g. Siemens plc, temperature controllers, level controllers etc.

Experience

  • Higher diploma or diploma in mechatronic engineering or electrical and electronics engineering
  • 3 years minimum plant maintenance experience in a FMCG manufacturing environment.

What’s next?

If you recognise yourself in this profile, please hit the apply button now and submit your application. We prefer to receive your application before 2nd September 2024.

About Upfield!

We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing what’s right for our people, our customers and the planet.

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

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