JESA Farm Dairy is a leading dairy brand in Uganda founded in 1989 by the late Mr. James Mulwana. From its small beginnings producing only raw milk, JESA has grown to become a home grown, commercial success story and a flagship East African consumer brand. Today, the JESA brand, with its wide range of fresh, dairy products namely: fresh pasteurized milk, UHT Milk, Yoghurt, Butter, Fresh Cream and Cream Cheese; has come to symbolize great taste, high quality, and innovation.
A number of vacancies have been created due to expansion of company operations. This is therefore to invite applications from suitably qualified candidates who meet the required job specifications, skillset and experience to fill the following positions at JESA Farm Dairy.

JESA/HR/PDN/05: MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN (04 VACANCIES)
Job Summary
To support operations by maintaining, checking, troubleshooting, repairing, and optimizing of equipment and facilities of the plant.

Key Roles and Responsibilities
• Troubleshoot electrical and mechanical plant equipment.
• Carryout preventive, predictive and corrective repairs to ensure longer equipment life cycle.
• Resolve breakdowns in time so as not to affect total production output or product quality.
• Perform and provide accurate information in the root cause analysis process.
• Participate in modifications, installations and decommissioning of equipment.
• Carryout hourly monitoring of process equipment activities e.g., sealing temperatures, cooling, steam temperature so as to ensure that processes are operating as per manufacturers recommendations, safe for product quality, equipment performance and production output.
• Test new materials on equipment through monitoring and adjusting parameters to achieve optimal process realization.
• Inspect and ensure that utilities are available for plant processing i.e., water, steam, compressed air, chilled water etc. repair the necessary utility equipment.
• Testing of equipment after repair/installation/modification etc.
• Carryout repairs while ensuring that final product quality is not affected but rather improved.

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Basic Qualification Diploma in electrical or mechanical Engineering obtained from an internationally recognized institution.

Working Experience
A minimum of 2 years’ relevant working experience.

Skillset, Knowledge and Abilities
• Analytical skills for mechanical units
• Reading and interpreting mechanical drawings
• Use of hand tools.
• RCA on mechanical units, basic electrical.
• Teamwork.
• Communication.
• Problem Solving.