Job Title: Packaging Artisan (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: Nile Breweries
Duty Station: Mbarara, 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 perform the optimisation /modifications of process control systems. Supports the installations of process control & relevant electrical systems. Maintain, calibrate, repair equipment, optimise plant and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a safe and healthy working environment
- Ensure safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation complied with.
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
- Report unsafe acts and conditions
- Ensure correct handling and disposal of hazardous chemicals in your working area
- Maintain, calibrate, repair and optimize plant and associated devices
- Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation/ systems
- Plan, and prepare the job
- Carry out repairs/ maintenance
- Continuously improve (optimize) plant, process equipment and systems
- Operate plant and process equipment
- Calibrate instruments and sensors
- Optimize spare usage
- Participate in planning and execution of normal maintenance and overhauls
- Provide specialist technical support and enhance machines, system and process capabilities
- Monitor machine performance
- Resolve and eliminate problems
- Support in breakdown maintenance and call out
- Perform ad hoc maintenance when required
- Support in quality and hygiene improvement.
- Develop initiatives for improving machine capability (efficiency, reliability, quality, usages and safety)
- Conduct machine audit s and feedback to the team
- Manage inventory
- Optimize engineering spare and consumables usage
- ABC analysis
- Manage satellite spare availability and usage
- Ensure the rotable spares are available for use
- Work in teams
- Communicate effectively in teams
- Contribute to self and team development
- Apply the VPO principles and practices
- Apply 5S standards and practices in the workplace
- Operate and control the process according to the SOPs
- Support in situational problem solving Problem identification, Problem definition, QFR development, 5why, Loop closure & Escalation. Adherence to triggers
- Support systematic problem solving initiatives ABR and PIPs
- Participate in conditioned based maintenance and quality based maintenance.
- Improve personal competence and skills flexibility
- Support set up time reduction initiatives
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Trade Tested Millwright or Electromechanical Artisan
- 3 – 6 months on the job training plus Vendor Maintenance
- Routine electrical and instrumentation maintenance on similar. Brewing and utilities plants
- Comprehensive Packaging, Brewing and E&F plants equipment and process knowledge
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Analytical ability and attention to detail
- Display initiative and ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organisation, within a team environment and with suppliers
- Motivated self-starter with high energy levels
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Team player
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 4th July 2025