Technical Trainee Recruitment at British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) - 24 Positions

British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is a market leading, global organisation with a long, established history and a bright and dynamic future. Thanks to our people we have continued to deliver growth and exceed expectations in an increasingly complex and challenging marketplace.

Our aim is to become the leading tobacco company in each of our markets by providing excellent products with confidence and responsibility expected of global consumer brands.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Trainee

Job number: 17542BR
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Appointment type: Fixed term
Slot: 24

Job Purpose and Key Deliverables

• British American Tobacco has an exciting opportunity for 24 Technical Trainees(s) to join our team in Ibadan, in the Production department.
• The job purpose is to provide technical support to the Secondary to achieve production targets by ensuring continuous and cost effective operation of machinery through:
  • Minimization of unplanned machine related down time
  • Minimization of raw materials, finished and semi finished product waste
  • Optimization of spare parts and consumables usage
  • Implementation and execution of preventative and curative maintenance plan

Main Responsibilites

• Minimising risk by ensuring compliance with BAT, EH&S and local standards 
• Ensuring that planed volumes and mixes for the shift are  achieved
• Carrying out repairs, settings and adjustments in order to ensure high quality product and optimum machine performance.
• Monitoring and reviewing of machinery performance for safety, out put, down time, quality and waste in order to draw and execute action plans for the correction of deviations.
• Optimise machine performance by proactively executing daily and weekly maintenance according to BAT prescribed policies and procedures.
• Reducing cost by optimizing the usage of machine consumables and spare parts.
• Ensuring that production administration and quality procedures are continuously followed
• Relief Operators and other PTs(APTs) whenever necessary .
• Execution of brand/size/format changeover in the most efficient manner.
• Execute stock taking as prescribed to ensure accurate figures for production planning.
• Execute materials tests in order to ensure that standards will be met in future.

Essential Requirements

• Basic technical knowledge
• Technical diploma
• Intermediate level of English
• Availability to work in shifts

Application Closing Date
29th October, 2017.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online