job description - Raw Material Assistant
Overview
Key Dimensions:
Role impacts:
- Plant throughput and Productivity
- Safety
- Employee relations
Key Relationships:
- Management Team
- Support Teams
- Service Teams
- Production
- Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time
Qualifications
- Grade 12 or equivalent
Experience
- 2 year demonstrated experience in handling of packaged raw material and preparation of Oxidiser and fuel batches
- 2 year demonstrated experience in production plant
Advantageous:
- 1 year demonstrated experience in explosives production
Duties
- To offload and accurately prepare raw material for the manufacturing of cartridge explosives safely & timeously.
- To ensure a manufacturing efficiency of 85% of design capacity is reached thus ensuring profitability and business sustainability by accuratedetermination of raw material quantity on receipt, ensuring material availability, storage and quality of received goods.
- To ensure accurate and safe sampling of materials and determination of fudge-point as well as pH when preparing raw materials.
- To ensure accurate interpretation of raw materials acceptance when accepting them into stock for storage and manufacturing.
- To ensure adherence to legal requirements and licencing conditions.
- To ensure accurate and timeous completion of relevant documentation i.e. delivery notes and Safety data sheets.
- To ensure optimal business functioning and business sustainability through adherence to processing and quality parameters.
- Understanding and respond to process and equipment upset or changes when necessary.
- Ensuring that vehicles are only operated when in a good state of repair and pre-trip inspection schedules are completed accurately and responsibly.
- Adhering to safety standard and procedure.
Job Competencies
Job Knowledge:
- Ability to plan and work independently
- Ability to communicate effectively and interact with internal customers
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure
Job Related Skills:
- Computer literate
- Attention to detail
- Accuracy
- Systematic
- Basic Arithmetic skills
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Omnia is known as a diversified chemicals Group that supplies chemicals and specialised services and solutions for agriculture, mining and chemical application.