Background

Choice Products Limited is seeking a General Fitter to join their team in Mzuzu, Malawi. This role is crucial for maintaining the operational efficiency of the production line.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Routine Inspections: Conduct regular mechanical checks on high-wear components
• Extruder Maintenance: Regularly service, align, and repair the high-pressure extruders and die plates.
• Emergency Repairs: Respond quickly to mechanical breakdowns on the production floor to minimize costly plant downtime.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose complex mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic faults across the processing line.
• Sanitary Maintenance: Ensure all maintenance work complies with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and food safety standards.
• Contamination Prevention: Ensure no loose metal shavings, bolts, or tools are left near open food processing streams.
• Strictly follow Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) protocols on dangerous machinery.
• Any other duties as assigned from time to time.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Education: National Trade Certificate (Grade 1/Level 3) in General Fitting or Mechanical Fitting.
• Experience: 2-5 years of post-apprenticeship mechanical experience, ideally within a food, beverage, or grain processing facility.
• Understanding of hydraulics, pneumatics, and steam systems.
• Proficiency in reading engineering blueprints and technical drawings.
• Skill in operating workshop machinery (lathes, milling machines, angle grinders).
• Physical Attributes: Strong manual dexterity, physical stamina, and the ability to work in confined spaces, at heights, or in warm environments near extruders and dryers.

• Routine Inspections: Conduct regular mechanical checks on high-wear components
• Extruder Maintenance: Regularly service, align, and repair the high-pressure extruders and die plates.
• Emergency Repairs: Respond quickly to mechanical breakdowns on the production floor to minimize costly plant downtime.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose complex mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic faults across the processing line.
• Sanitary Maintenance: Ensure all maintenance work complies with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and food safety standards.
• Contamination Prevention: Ensure no loose metal shavings, bolts, or tools are left near open food processing streams.
• Strictly follow Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) protocols on dangerous machinery.
• Any other duties as assigned from time to time.

• Understanding of hydraulics, pneumatics, and steam systems.
• Proficiency in reading engineering blueprints and technical drawings.
• Skill in operating workshop machinery (lathes, milling machines, angle grinders).
• Strong manual dexterity, physical stamina, and the ability to work in confined spaces, at heights, or in warm environments near extruders and dryers.

• National Trade Certificate (Grade 1/Level 3) in General Fitting or Mechanical Fitting.
• 2-5 years of post-apprenticeship mechanical experience, ideally within a food, beverage, or grain processing facility.