Technician- Packaging

Location : Rajpura

City : Rajpura

State : Punjab (IN-PB)

Country : India (IN)

Requisition Number : 36891

**Business Title**: Technician - Packing
**Location**: Rajpura
**Department**: Packing

**Overall purpose of job**:
Working to strict safety and quality requirements, help to achieve daily production requirements in terms of quality and quantity, optimizing efficiency and maintaining operational excellence. Able to work on many/all areas of the production process.

**Main Accountabilities**:

- Set up machines (calibration, cleaning etc.) to start a production cycle.
- Control and adjust machine settings (e.g., speed).
- Fix issues that might occur during the shift.
- Knowledge of equipment operating through PLC.
- Check output to spot any machine-related mistakes or flaws.
- Keep records of approved and defective units or final products.
- Operate production line equipment such as knowledge of handling Homogenizer, pasteurizer & PHE operations, Online Printers and Metal detectors.
- Able to maintain all records and documents having basic knowledge of computer.
- Weigh and label packaged goods ready for dispatch.
- Knowledge of handling homogenizer, pasteurizer & PHE operations, printers and metal detectors.

**Health, Safety and Environment**:

- Identify and report health or safety hazards & dangerous situations and put appropriate control measures in place.
- Ensure LOTO is followed by all, training others as required.
- Be a Company Contact in their area.
- Encourages ALL to behave in a safe manner and challenges unsafe behavior.
- Carry out cleaning with knowledge of handling the chemicals in the line (Caustic, Nitric etc.) to operate the CIP and basic maintenance of work areas and the machines.

**Quality**:

- Ensure equipment is capable to manufacture products in accordance with quality procedures and standards, using process control techniques where applicable.
- Perform agreed Quality improvement activities monitoring and controlling key process parameters to measure success where applicable.
- Storage of ingredients as per FSSC standard, issue, use and consumption of ingredients as per FIFO/FEFO.
- Daily reconciliation of RM/PM in log sheet to ensure the right quantity uses of ingredients in manufactured batches.
- Kean knowledge of batch traceability, capsuling, record keeping etc.
- Knowledge of Food Safety Management system (HACCP, PRP, OPRP, CCP and other food fraud controls)
- Measure, grade and feed batches of raw materials into production machinery/process.
- Monitor the production processes and carry out basic testing and quality checks.
- Ensure all external and internal auditory standards and improvement requirements are met.

**Customer Service includes**:

- Priorities and complete improvement activities to improve equipment efficiencies with a view to increase overall department through-put.
- Perform improvement activities on changeover times to reduce losses per changeover.
- Identify and implement agreed improvement opportunities to increase the production plant flexibility.

**Cost**:

- Lead improvement activities to improve efficiency and reduce costs, supporting operators to complete kaizens as required.
- Implement cost optimization activities eliminating losses that may not impact on OEE (e.g., yield, energy, and spare parts)

**5S**:

- Ensure 5S standards are clearly defined and followed in work area
- Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to.
- Contribute to continuous improvement activities.

**Autonomous Maintenance**:

- Support the AM activities (e.g., cell meetings, step audits, board updating).

**Preventative Maintenance**:

- Ensure breakdown analysis for all component failures using the EWO process and the implementation of countermeasures to eliminate root causes has been completed.
- Ensure the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are reviewed, and the gap analysis is carried out on a regular basis to understand and input into the improvement plan.

**Focused Improvement**:

- Ensure the losses are being recorded and classified accurately challenging and supporting others to correct errors.
- Regularly monitor and analyses unit loss trees to identify loss pattern and take action to eliminate gap.
- Identify and lead improvements from top loss re-occurring breakdowns.

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Sound knowledge of Processing, Production & Packing Technologies (Whip toppings, cooking cream, dairy analogues, bakery mixes, confectionery, and decorations, culinary, Proprietary Foods etc.
- Hands on experience in Manufacturing & Trouble Shooting of whip topping, fat emulsions etc.
- Good knowledge on Food Safety, Process & Quality Assurance aspects, Food Safety, GMP of Food Products.

**Other requirements**:

- Shall be flexible and mobile.

**Educational Qualifications**:

- Diploma in Food / Dairy Technology from a Premier Institution.

**Experience**:

- 2 to 5 Years of Ice cream/Dairy/Juice/Nondairy whip topping