Utility Operator (Maternity Cover)
Location: Kilinto
Company: Heineken Ethiopia
Deadline: Mar 28, 2026
Job Description
Position Title: Utilities Operator
Contract Type: Contractual (Maternity Cover)
Job Purpose:
Reliable operations and supply of utilities section. when necessary, execute tasks deemed important for the business as requested by the immediate supervisor
Key Responsibilities
- Executes/operates utilities in a Safeway.
- Reports unsafe behaviors, unsafe conditions, near misses and high potential near misses and take the lead to investigate the high potential near misses initiate analysis for high position safety tags.
- Takes part in the ORR team to reduce operational risk.
- Follow all local, national and internation safety regulations and standards.
- Participate in ongoing safety training to stay updated on best practices and emergency procedures.
- Promote a culture of safety by encouraging safe work practices among team members.
- Maintain high standards of sanitation and hygiene in all utility operations, especially those related to water, steam generation, CO2 recovery and compressed air.
- Implement and execute regular cleaning and maintenance schedules to prevent contamination.
- Adhere to food safety standards such as HACCP (Hazard analysis and critical control point).
- Makes equipment safe to work on and guards’ safety during work.
- Executes/operates Utilities work according to required quality specifications.
- Adhere to all local, national and internation quality standards.
- Cleans, verifies, and calibrates inline measuring instruments.
- Operates and controls various utilities equipment and machineries, including pumps, fans, and compressors to provide uninterrupted supply to production at optimum level of performance.
- Runs technical support checks and operations anomalies, i.e. vibration monitoring, pressure checks, blow downs, lubrication checks, etc.
- Works closely with other team members and departments to ensure efficient and effective operations.
- Make sure readiness of stand by equipment’s, clean parts and -tools.
- Identifies anomalies and tags.
- Manages work permit / installation handover for utilities.
- Collects and register energy, water, and other utilities consumptions.
- Initiate BDA and reports red alarms that help in MTBA deployment.
- Performs routine checks, repairs and minor maintenance on equipment and systems.
- Works together with the Utilities Zone Technician and reports to the Utilities Manager.
- Supports all Utilities maintenance jobs.
- Recovers equipment from fault conditions into standard condition.
- Champions SFE.
- Participate and engage well on APM role out.
- Validates solution for breakdowns.
- Initiate and Participate BDA and RCFA (5 why)
- Validates repairs in Utilities section and take over from maintenance team
- Creates Utilities breakdown WO’s with the required quality, hence ensuring proper BDA and -follow-up for future improvement.
- Registration of alarms and Touches.
- Records energy and water data.
- Registration and trending of triggering points
- Uses one-2-Improve to raise tag and initiate BDA
- Keep record of parameter in new installation that help in performance guarantee.
Job Requirements
Experience and Skills
- >2 years of working experience within utilities.
- General knowledge of maintenance and good knowledge of operations.
Education
- Bachelor’s in chemical engineering or related
Required Skills
- Food Science, or Chemical Engineering
How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their motivation letter along with their recent CV via the address: talentacquieth@heineken.com.
Application Deadline: March 28, 2026
Applicants should state “Utility Operator – Kilinto” in the subject line of the email.
Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.




