Maintenance Technician South Africa

Nexture Group is a global holding company based in Milan (Italy), specialized in the development and manufacture of high-quality food ingredients and value-added solutions for the global food industry with operations across Europe, Africa and the Americas. Since the beginning of 2026 that Frulact belongs to Nexture Group.

Frulact is an international business group, founded in Oporto, Portugal in 1987. Currently, we are positioned as a top-ranked innovative player in the supply of added-value ingredients for the food and beverage industry, focusing on fruit preparations, plant-based dairy alternatives, liquid flavors, and other specialty ingredients.

We are a team of almost 900 people in full growth with factories located in Europe (Portugal, France, Germany and Switzerland), North America (Canada and USA) and Africa (Morocco and South Africa).

 We are looking for a Maintenance Technician to join our team in Silverton, Pretoria, South Africa. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development of all preventive maintenance activities defined in the Annual Preventive Maintenance Plan (APMP);
• Carry out maintenance activities curative requested by other departments, ensuring the proper functioning of equipment and facilities; 
• Make the correct changes of format cutting, filtering and screening machines for the preparation of fruits; 
• Carry out periodic lubrication defined in the Annual Preventive Maintenance Plan; 
• Ensure proper cleaning and sanitation of equipment and facilities after any intervention; 
• Carry out start-ups and ensure proper working of equipment and facilities;
• Monitoring of all activities from outside companies for requested services; 
• Fulfill the Job Cards of each preventive or curative maintenance intervention; 
• Completion of records changes made to the preparation of fruit machines; 
• Report to the superiors any anomaly detected in equipment and facilities; 
• General housekeeping and cleaning maintenance workshop and working tools; 
• General cleaning of boiler room, compressor room, generator, compressor cages and paraffin bund and recording of above mentioned in cleaning schedule;
• Carry out daily checklist and ensure issues are reported to your superiors and repaired;
• Carry out weekly scare verification and calibration;
• Carry out inspections on lifting equipment and ensuring battery levels are sufficient;
• Ensuring stock is accounted for on Job card and stock levels are reported regularly to your superior;
• Performing stock takes as requested by Maintenance Manager;
• Record daily consumption of water, gas and energy;
• Responsible for managing the waste generated in the activities associated with maintenance;
• Performing standby as per shift schedule.

PROFILE

• Minimum N6 Qualified Millwright;
• 3-5 years of professional experience in similar functions;
• Good level of communication in English (mandatory);
• Good MS Office tools knowledge.