Miller - Wheat

Recruiter:

Limpopo Personnel

Job Ref:

MB000226/TG

Date posted:

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

Salary:

Monthly

SUMMARY:

The primary goal of the position is to ensure efficient and cost-effective operation of all mills. This includes adhering to specific quality criteria for all finished products and achieving all stipulated daily targets and measurements.

POSITION INFO:
Minimum requirements:

Qualified Miller - trade tested in maize and/or wheat milling technologies
Minimum 3 years milling experience in a high-capacity plant (+ 30 tons/hour)
Fumigation and Grading certification
Advanced milling qualifications will be advantageous
City and Guilds /NABIM qualifications will be advantageous .

Role and responsibilities:
Operational Tasks Roller Mills:

Ensure break releases on Wheat Mills are carried out on a weekly basis as per instruction.
Ensure all scrapers and roll brushes are checked per shift and changed if necessary.
Ensure roll hopper exhausts are fully operational per shift.
Ensure a balanced and consistent feed rate is maintained throughout the milling process.

Plansifter:

Ensure all sifter maintenance is carried out as per requirements and schedules
Ensure any burst covers are replaced on shift
Ensure all inlet/outlet sleeves on sifter and purifiers are intact
Ensure screens of all turbo sieves on Germ system is intact, clean and machine inside cleaned out regularly

Purifiers:

Ensure all purifier brushes are fully operational and in good condition at all times Air tunnel on top of machines are clean and purifiers set.
Ensure covers are taut and not blinded at all times
Ensure correct separation on all concentrators and maize mill aspirators

Aspiration and Exhausts:

Ensure manometer reading on all filters is on acceptable levels
Ensure pneumatic hammer and pulsing unit on filter is working at all times
Ensure heater banks always run at the correct temperature parameters.
General Routine checks on efficient running of milling machines determined by the Head Miller
Ensure correct flour stocks are available in the correct location as required by the production plan.
Correct and effective setting and balancing of Milling machines including equipment in the screensroom.

Quality:

Ensure that all final products are always maintained within internal specifications.
Ensure gristing models are accurately monitored and that WIP levels are always maintained as determined by the Head Miller.
Efficient cleaning and preparation of WIP materials.
Ensure all finished products are tested, recorded, and actioned if required in the prescribed periods.
Ensure reduction in waste on all milling plants.

Plant Performance:

Maintain and achieve prescribed extraction rates on the respective milling plants.
Maintain an OEE rating of 95% minimum on all milling plants.
Accurate recording and reporting of production logs
Reconciliation of the mass balance detail on each milling plant.
Manage and maintain evaporative loss of each milling plant within the prescribed parameters.
Proactively identify potential loss time incidents and appropriately action the corrective work required.

Risk and Safety:

Compliance to all set safety policies and procedures
Adherence to respective safety working practices of the plant.
Drive the safety culture through practice and participate in hazard risk assessments.

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