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Rice Mill Operator
BrighterMonday Consulting
Kisumu 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 2 days ago (22 Sep 2026) Updated 2 days ago
Job Description
The Rice Mill Operator is responsible for running and maintaining the rice milling production line, ensuring efficient processing and high‑quality output. Duties include setting up equipment, monitoring operations, performing preventative maintenance, and enforcing safety standards on the shop floor.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Hands‑on experience operating and maintaining rice milling equipment
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Set up, run, and actively monitor commercial rice milling machinery across all stages, including pre‑cleaners, de‑huskers, paddy separators, rice polishers, thickness graders, and color sorters
- • Continuously observe production lines to detect early signs of mechanical failure, abnormal vibrations, noises, belt slippage, overheating, or blockages
- • Perform hands‑on preventative maintenance and minor technical repairs such as lubricating bearings, adjusting tension belts, clearing blockages, and replacing worn screens or rubber rollers
- • Conduct regular physical sampling during production runs to test moisture levels, broken grain percentages, and polish levels, and fine‑tune machine calibrations to maximize head rice recovery
- • Monitor raw paddy input rates and packaged output to maintain an even, continuous processing pace across shifts
- • Enforce strict occupational health, safety, and hygiene standards and maintain a clean, hazard‑free production floor