Key roles and responsibilities:

• All activities will be undertaken in support of the Model Farm Production Manager
• Provide support to the Model Farm production team during all production practices e.g. planting, spraying and harvesting
• Contribute to a safe and efficient working environment on the Model Farm
• Operate workshop and farming equipment
• Take part in maintenance planning meetings, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work in accordance with the planned maintenance and production practices schedule as issued by the Model Farm Production Manager
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities
• Partake in inspection, reporting, upkeep and repairing of identified breakages, damages and leakages
• Carry out routine upkeep of the Model Farm infrastructure and grounds
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
• Complete the administration relating to any maintenance activities e.g. PO’s
• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem
• solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Model Farm Production Manager
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems
• Communicate effectively
• Operate in a safe manner at all times and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate ABInBev policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

Minimum Requirements:

• National Senior Certificate
• 3 -5 Years small grain commercial farming experience
• Experience in operating small grain farming equipment
• Technical, mechanical and construction experience
• Minimum EC 1 Code Driver’s license