Fitter

Tharisa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 50 000 - 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A mining company in South Africa is seeking a skilled Fitter responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing mechanical equipment. The successful candidate will ensure compliance with safety standards and execute daily maintenance tasks, while directing assistants and contractors. The ideal candidate must be knowledgeable about OHSA regulations and have the ability to handle various mechanical tasks effectively. This role presents an opportunity to enhance asset care management in a challenging work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in installing and maintaining mechanical equipment.
• Knowledge of OHSA regulations and relevant codes of practice.
• Ability to conduct pre-work risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Safely execute critical daily maintenance tasks.
• Conduct pre-work risk assessment for every task.
• Diagnose malfunctioning systems and correct problems.
• Maintain good housekeeping standards.
• Inspect plant equipment components and systems.

Job description

Purpose Of Role

The Fitter will be responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing mechanical equipment and fixtures. Ensures that work is in accordance with OHSA 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 the 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 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 mechanical 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
• 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