Shift Miller (Maize)

SUMMARY:
The purpose of the role is to produce high quality grain products while operating and administrating the Maize Mill in an optimum manner.

POSITION INFO:
Grade 12
Trade Test GMF/SAGMA 
3 years' experience in a high-capacity Maize Mill
Certification in fumigation.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintaining target extractions
• Producing final product that conforms to Company's quality specifications.
• Maintaining a target OEE of all plants of 95%
• Utilization of all plants at 95.
• Maintain plant design capacities on throughput.
• Consistency in final product quality parameters in accordance with specifications
• Achieve and maintain food safety/survey score targets.

• Balanced roll feed
• Balanced roll grindings
• Purifiers – sieve decks and aspiration efficiency
• Bran finishers
• Pneumatic and aspiration filters –pulsing, manometer monitoring and product containment
• Scourers
• Combi cleaners – Settings and cleaning effectiveness
• Dampening – Accuracy in water additions and consistency in moisture content of conditioned wheat.

• Ensure conditioning stock levels are maintained at optimum levels.
• Specialty conditioning consistency in moisture and quality as per grist model.
• Ensure good manufacturing practices are applied daily.
• Work orders to be created daily for inefficient machinery.
• Safe working practices and inspections to be conducted and applied on a shift basis.
• Ensure adequate and effective plant sifter maintenance is conducted on the respective sifter sections of the assigned milling plant during planned maintenance stoppages.
• Ensure all scraper blades are in proper working order ( dis engaging and cleaning roll surface)
• Maintenance of all grinding roll surfaces of the assigned milling plants.
• Accurate reporting and recording of all downtime into the production sheets.

• Magnet checklists
• Fortification dosing and batch recording
• Bin change over and bin filling documents
• Hazard inspections
• Conduct break release test on assigned plants once per shift cycle.
• Reporting of any loss time/ plant downtime amounting to 2 hours per shift on assigned milling plants inclusive of the screens room processing plant.
• 100% completing of all safe working permits.
• Highlight any short falls of operational targets, food safety and product quality conformance to mill management within an effective and efficient period.
• Monitoring and balancing of final product bin stock levels.
• Conduct a complete fault-finding procedure with all production related inefficiencies and non-conformances and apply the appropriate corrective actions.