Electrician

Tharisa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 350 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mining company in Gauteng is seeking an experienced Electrician responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical equipment. The role includes executing maintenance tasks, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and conducting risk assessments to maintain health and safety standards. The ideal candidate should have experience working in a mining environment and the ability to handle electrical faults effectively.

Qualifications

• Must ensure compliance with MHSA regulations and relevant COP’s and SOP’s.
• Ability to diagnose and repair electrical faults using hand and power tools.
• Skills in risk assessment and safety management.

Responsibilities

• Install, maintain, and repair electrical equipment and fixtures.
• Execute maintenance tasks and shutdown activities as per plan.
• Ensure health and safety standards are met during operations.

Job description

Purpose Of Role

The Electrician is responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical equipment and fixtures. Ensures that work is in accordance with MHSA and relevant COP’s and SOP’s

Role Context

• Safely execute critical daily maintenance tasks
• Execute shutdown activities as per plan, according to scheduled time
• Ensure continuous improvement of asset care management
• To give direction to Assistant and contractors under their area of responsibility
• Support asset care and optimisation for ensuring customer needs are met
• Assist engineering foreman to ensure health and safety of employees it is taken care of through safely maintaining equipment
• Maintain good housekeeping standards
• Stop and report any contraventions of the MHSA, regulations, codes of practice, mine standards, and instructions promptly to the engineering foreman
• Obtain job card and permit to work before any task execution
• Conduct pre-work risk assessment for every task
• Assemble, install, test, and maintain electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools
• Diagnose malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and components, using test equipment and hand tools, to locate the cause of a breakdown and correct the problem
• Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, or other components
• Inspect plant equipment components and systems to identify hazards, defects, and the need for adjustment or repair, and to ensure compliance with the relevant standards
• Advise management on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous
• Plan layout and installation of equipment and fixtures, based on job specifications and relevant standards
• Ensure safe execution of the task
• Ensure that the equipment handed back to the operation is in a safe and operable condition