Utility Operator (Maternity Cover)

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