Mechanical Fitter

Objective Personnel; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 50 000 - 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established engineering firm in South Africa is seeking a qualified technician with experience in working with large industrial machinery, especially in mining environments. The role involves maintenance, assembly of machinery, troubleshooting equipment, and providing training on safe work practices. The ideal candidate must have a trade test and a minimum of three years of relevant experience. Competitive compensation offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in the large industrial machine industry.
• Must have experience working in mining environment.

Responsibilities

• Promote safe work leadership during maintenance.
• Assemble various sub-assemblies of machines.
• Perform inspections on newly assembled machines.
• Troubleshoot and problem solve equipment issues.
• Provide training and instruction on maintenance.

Education

Matric

Trade test

Job description

Qualifications

• Matric
• Must have trade test

Requirements

• Must have experience working with large industrial machinery
• Minimum 3 years experience in the large industrial machine industry
• Must have experience working in mining environment
• Crushing equipment
• Worked on lubrication equipment
• Gearboxes and bearings
• Basic rigging and slinging
• Basic welding and gas cutting

Duties

• Always promote safe work leadership during maintenance activities on the company's equipment, as fitter and team leader.
• Assemble the various sub-assemblies of an company machine into a working unit.
• Move any piece of the company's equipment into or out of a working position at a mine site, quarry, or other such location.
• Perform necessary inspections on a newly assembled company's machine to make sure that it will operate properly on start-up.
• Perform specific tests on the company's equipment, such as stall-test, output feed size gradations, lubrication feed rate measurements, temperature monitoring, take current overload readings etc.
• Perform troubleshooting and problem solving tasks to identify the root cause of any problems being experienced with equipment.
• Monitor company's equipment operating in the field for the purpose of improving the performance, either in terms of throughput rate, output product size, ability to handle difficult (eg. Hard or sticky) material, or for any other reason. Thereafter the Service Engineer must be able to present his suggestions to the customer, or to the company's sales or design company, and also carry out the necessary work to effect the changes required.
• Remove broken or damaged equipment and replace it with new / repaired equipment.
• Provide training and / or instruction to the customers workforce on how to perform maintenance tasks in a safe effective manner.
• Record suggestions for design improvements and feed these back as part of the site reporting, so that they can be passed on to company's Design and Consultancy.
• Skills and knowledge transfer to assistant workforce and trainees(apprentices)
• Perform all physical activities that are required to fulfil the duties described above in a safe and professional manner, either alone or in conjunction with other persons who may, or may not be familiar with the company equipment. This work may involve :
• Making use of heavy tooling
• Moving large or bulky parts manually
• Working at heights and in confined spaces
• Working in extreme weather conditions
• Working long shifts
• Carry out high levels of physical strenuous work
• Work involving the extensive use of hard power tools
• Work in conjunction with other engineering disciplines, such as electrical engineering, civil engineering, rigging and haulage, customers production operators etc.
• Communicate with representatives of the customer, at all levels, on technical and engineering matters relating to the job at hand
• Perform all work in relation to the overhaul of an company's machine, including the removal and replacement of :
• Sizer and feeder shafts
• Wear component
• Bearings
• Fluid Couplings
• Gears and seals
• Electro-mechanical and hydraulic drives