Graduate Trainee - Engineering

Job Summary

The training programme is designed to give trainees hands-on experience with the key electrical, mechanical, and production systems within a beverage manufacturing environment. It will help the Trainee build practical skills in equipment maintenance, fault diagnosis, preventive maintenance, plant utilities, reliability, and safe engineering practices.

Job Details

Key Training Areas

1. Production Equipment & Machinery 
   • Understanding how beverage production machines work. 
   • Practical exposure to fillers, conveyors, labelling machines, mixers, pumps, compressors, and packaging equipment. 
   • Learning machine operation and common equipment faults. 
2. Electrical Systems & Controls 
   • Industrial electrical systems, motors, sensors, switches, and control panels. 
   • Introduction to PLCs, automation, and machine control systems. 
   • Electrical fault finding and troubleshooting. 
   • Automation and autonomous equipment performance.
3. Mechanical Maintenance 
   • Maintenance of pumps, valves, bearings, gearboxes, belts, chains, and other mechanical components. 
   • Lubrication, alignment, adjustment, and replacement of worn parts. 
   • Understanding and addressing the causes of mechanical failure. 
4. Preventive Maintenance & Asset Reliability 
   • Understanding preventive, autonomous and planned maintenance. 
   • Equipment inspections and condition monitoring. 
   • Learning how to reduce breakdowns, downtime, and production losses. 
   • Introduction to OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and reliability practices. 
5. Utilities, Safety & Engineering Standards 
   • Exposure to plant utilities such as compressed air systems, refrigeration and air conditioning, water treatment, boilers, steam generation, and steam supply systems. 
   • Understanding CIP (Clean-in-Place) systems and their engineering requirements. 
   • Workplace safety, lockout/tagout, PPE, electrical safety, and safe maintenance practices.

Requirements

Skills and Attributes Required:

• Basic knowledge of Food Safety & Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001, ISO 22000, FSSC22000, HACCP)
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to effectively perform multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail
• Data analytics skills
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities.
• Enjoy a hands-on work environment
• Computer literacy-Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• A Safety Champion

Qualification:

• HND/BTech/Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• One (1) year post NSS experience, preferably in food, beverage or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for Trainee
• Monthly Stipend
• Free Lunch 

About Company

Kasapreko PLC

https://kasapreko.seamlesshiring.com

The visionary Dr Kwabena Adjei started this journey from garage as he saw a vision that now stands as the only Ghanaian owned in Ghana that produces herbal based alcoholic and non-alcoholic products Moved by the increasing demand of quality alcoholic products, Kasapreko Company Ltd was founded in 1989 with the niche in producing herbal based alcoholic produced sourced locally. The company that started from a small garage of Dr Kwabena Adjei has developed into a state-of-the-art production facility with over 100 sku’s and exporting to 16 countries globally under various brands in the bitters, whisky, gin, liqueur, brandy, carbonated soft drinks and wine categories. Our brands are celebrated in Africa and across the world and was the first of the local manufacturers in Ghana to have established a modern quality control and product development laboratory and introduce its own proprietary bespoke bottles and caps. Kasapreko was also responsible for the conceptualization, research, design and development of the first scientifically formulated, herbal-based alcoholic beverage in Ghana – Alomo Bitters which is now the company’s flagship product. Our unique selling preposition of producing herbal based products is derived from our rich Ghanaian heritage, differentiating Kasapreko from others. We continuously make use of research and development as well as the latest technology with local/traditional recipes in our production process.