IRRIGATION CONTROLLER

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The Key Purpose of this role is to control the irrigation process according to agreed standards and carry out various hop farming activities, as well as maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Health, Safety and Environment

• Comply with safe, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
• Maintain safety and 5S implementation, execution and ownership of area
• Identification of unsafe practices through SIO's.
• Safety inspections conducted.
• Safe maintenance practices audited.
• Adherence to PPE policies.
• SAM and LOTOTO procedures practised.
• Adhering and Leading according to AB Inbev Policy in terms of Safety, Health and Environmental issues
• Implementation, execution and audits of VPO

2. Maintain and Repair Plant and Associated Devices

• Locate equipment, spares and relevant documentation and or systems.
• Plan and prepare the job.
• Carry out basic and routine repairs and maintenance. Escalate major repairs and maintenance accordingly.
• Ensure correct usage, maintenance and storage of tools and equipment.

3. General Hop Farm Tasks

• All tasks related to the growing of hops
• Perform all activities related to hop harvesting.
• Carry out any other reasonable tasks as instructed by the Farm Manager.

4. Problem-Solving

• Apply problem solving and decision making techniques and principles. (i.e. Implementation, execution and documentation of 5 Why).
• Effective PI and KPI reporting.
• SIC management and applicable problem solving techniques applied.

5. Co-ordinate Seasonal Workers

• Oversee seasonal workers throughout the year to ensure the irrigation system runs efficiently in the field and that they adhere to the AB Inbev Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Ensure that seasonal workers adhere to the AB Inbev Safety Policies and Procedures

6. Irrigation

• To attend to the day-to-day irrigation of the hop fields as per instructions to ensure that water is efficiently managed
• Responsible for the entire irrigation process which occurs from the extracting of water from the dam to the imitters in the hop fields
• Operate irrigation controllers as per instructions
• Select or irrigate plots as per instruction and according to irrigation probe readings.
• Ensure efficiency of irrigation during cycles.
• Repair below and above ground pipes and valves.
• Operate and utilise fertigation systems on drip irrigation camps.
• Any other reasonable task related to the irrigation of hop fields.

Minimum Requirements

• Numeracy and literacy - Grade 12 will be ideal
• License to drive a tractor
• 1 - 2 years' farming work experience.
• 1 - 2 years in operating farm machinery.
• 2 years' operating irrigation systems

Behavioural Competencies

• Supervision skills.
• Mental alertness and problem solving skills.
• Conceptual skills.
• Subject matter expert.

Additional Information:

• Band: XII

Ab InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with Ab InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short listing.