Production Assistants - 3 Posts at Agro-Chemical and Food Company

Ref: ACFC/12/2024/004

 Terms of Employment (Permanent and Pensionable)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Operating dryers to dry yeast.
• Monitoring closely the drying and control parameters.
• Monitoring the performance of the shaking device.
• Keeping a close watch on steam control and product temperature.
• Cleaning and washing dryer carts.
• Operating the hoisting device for ADY sieving unit.
• Operating the moisture meter.
• Taking dried ADY samples to the Laboratory for final moisture and activity testing.
• Assisting the filtration operator is salting and starch recoating.
• Cleaning the dryers as required.
• Cleaning and changing the product filters as required.
• Assisting the operators in running the dryers.
• Ensuring process work instructions are followed.
• Keeping all the machines in the section clean.
• Taking and handing over at your workstation.

Acid Offloading

• Collecting and distributing raw materials, chemicals and other plant requirements.
• Cleaning nutrient bags.
• Reporting to the supervisor any breakdown, malfunctions or accidents.
• Offloading acid into egg and pump to storage tank.
• Cleaning the jerrycans after emptying and returning to store.
• Carrying out daily general plant cleaning.
• Ensuring that proper acid offloading gears are put on operations.
• Keeping records of daily material issues from stores.
• Handling and taking over at the station.

Separators

• Carrying out alcohol separation at the correct rates.
• Operating the chilling water pumps to filtration, distillation and acidification tank.
• Assisting in taking temperatures of chilled water every hour.
• Changing over alcohol separators as required.
• Carrying out CIP cleaning of both alcohol and ADY separators after 8 to16 hours of running for the former and just before the seed for the latter.
• Carrying out CIP cleaning for ADY, separators before and after each separation.
• Monitoring the operations of pumps at OCC – 04.
• Maintaining constant Supply of mash to distillery.
• Monitoring closely the operations of separators.
• Keeping an hourly record of yeast cream brix, the current and flow rates.
• Reporting any breakdowns or abnormally to the process operator I separators for the correct action.
• Coordinating with ADY fermentation, driers, distillery fodder yeast and alcohol fermentation operations.
• Ensuring process work instructions are followed.
• Takes yeast cream samples to the Laboratory for analysis.
• Carrying out manual cleaning of separators dishes.
• Helping in preparing nutrients and chemicals at molasses preparation.
• Cleaning yeast cream tanks.
• Carrying out manual cleaning of yeast cream PHE.
• Keeping all the machines in the section clean.
• Taking and handling over at your workstation

Active Dry Yeast Packing

• Packing Active Dry Yeast (ADY) and Active Wet Yeast into jerrycans, cartons or sachets.
• Checking for activity and moisture of yeast to be packed from the lab before packing and ensure that the yeast packed is of high quality.
• Operating vacuum packing machine.
• Flashing all jerrycans with nitrogen before sealing.
• Sealing the jerrycans, cartons and sachets properly.
• Labelling and stamp all the packed ADY jerrycans, cartons and sachets with the correct codes and expiry dates.
• Counting and reconciling jerrycans issued with packages on a daily basis.
• Operating vacuum packaging machine.
• Carrying out manual sieving when necessary.
• Carrying out cleaning at the workstation.
• Reporting machinery breakdowns to station to the packing in charge.
• Ensuring that packing operations are caried out according to the laid down process work instruction.
• Handling and taking over work at the station

Carbon Dioxide

• Cleaning working area/floor every morning.
• Operating Carbon dioxide plant as per process work instructions (PWIs) issued and recording parameters observed in log sheets at set time intervals.
• Informing senior process operator CO2 plant on in-puts/material required for work daily at 0800am.
• Reporting to senior operator CO2 plant on any machine/equipment breakdown or malfunction for quick repair/correction/corrective action.
• Executing work in safe way to human, equipment and products at the time.
• Liaising with other staff to ensure desired work goals are achieved.
• Writing shift work report at end of shift.
• Taking/handing over work at start/end of shift at the workstation.

Person Specification

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have;

• Diploma in any of the following fields: Food Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry or a qualification from a recognized institution.
• Proficiency in computer applications
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution.

Key Competencies and Skills

• Strong analytical skills
• Strategic and innovative thinking
• Effective ccommunication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills