Senior Grain Grader

Senwes Ltd.; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Senwes Grainlink is recruiting for a Senior Grain Grader. The role focuses on receiving incoming grain from producers, grading it, and dispatching it while ensuring general storage hygiene and accurate equipment calibration for client needs and silo optimization.

Responsibilities include sampling and grading grain, maintaining product quality during storage, ensuring safe fumigation when needed, keeping the silo area tidy, and supervising maintenance, training, and health & safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Grain grading knowledge is demonstrated through sampling and grading processes.
• Understanding of storage hygiene and equipment calibration basics.

Responsibilities

• Sample and grade grain accurately under supervision.
• Monitor storage conditions to maintain product quality.
• Arrange and ensure timely dispatch of grain.
• Perform safe fumigation when required.
• Keep silo premises clean, orderly and insect-free.
• Coordinate maintenance requests for equipment and machinery.
• Contribute to loss control through supervision and follow-up.
• Discuss work standards with staff and assist with improvements.
• Assess competence and provide on-the-job training when needed.
• Ensure health and safety regulations are followed.
• Assist with general office administration.

Job description

Job description

Senwes Grainlink is recruiting for a Senior Grain Grader. The main responsibilities include receiving incoming grain from producers, grading it, and dispatching it. Additionally, the role involves ensuring general storage hygiene and accurately calibrating equipment to meet client needs and optimize silo operations.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that grain materials are correctly and accurately sampled and graded through close supervision, follow-up, and control.
• Ensures that product quality is maintained throughout storage timeframe of grain through close monitoring, analysing information/reports, and by making timeous decisions.
• Ensures the accurate and timely dispatching of grain through close supervision.
• Ensure correct and safe fumigation of grain when necessary.
• Ensures that the silo premises are clean, neat, tidy and without insect infestation through timeous allocation of tasks, follow-up and close supervision.
• Ensures that all mechanical equipment is regularly serviced and maintained on a consistent basis by initiating maintenance/service requests via line supervisor.
• Ensures that loss control is implemented and adhered to effectively and accurately through hands-on supervision and follow-up.
• Engages in informal discussions with general working staff to bring about improvements in work standards and attitude.
• Evaluates levels of competence and assists with on-the-job training when and as necessary.
• Ensure Compliance to Health & Safety Regulations.
• Assists with general office administration.