Quality Assurance & Reliability Intern

Tiger Brands; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Brands in Germiston seeks a Quality Assurance & Reliability Engineer with strong maintenance and RCA background. You will lead failure investigations, develop reliability strategies, and drive continuous improvement across rotating equipment.

The role is contract-based in a heavy industry setting, located in Vanderbijlpark–Gauteng area, with focus on quality assurance and non-conformance management. The ideal candidate holds a Mechanical Engineering qualification (National

Qualifications

• National Diploma, B-Tech, or Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 3–5 years in maintenance, reliability or rotating equipment.
• Proven experience implementing maintenance strategies and reliability improvements.
• Experience in failure investigations and root cause analyses.
• Exposure to quality assurance and non-conformance management processes.
• FMEA and FMECA methodologies.
• 5 Why Analysis, Fishbone, and Fault Tree Analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the NCR database.
• Schedule, coordinate, and conduct internal NCR investigations and audits.
• Lead RCA investigations for machine failures and deviations.
• Apply RCA methodologies including 5 Why Analysis and Ishikawa diagrams.
• Record failures, corrective actions, and recommended next steps.
• Collaborate with Maintenance to identify reliability improvements.
• Develop maintenance strategies for equipment lacking formal plans.
• Conduct and facilitate FMEA and FMECA studies.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintenance planning

Root cause analysis

FMEA

FMECA

5 Why Analysis

Ishikawa analysis

Fault Tree Analysis

RCM principles

Education

National Diploma

B-Tech

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

NCR management

RCA investigations

Job description

Tiger Brands in Germiston seeks a Quality Assurance & Reliability Engineer with strong maintenance and RCA background. You will lead failure investigations, develop reliability strategies, and drive continuous improvement across rotating equipment.

The role is contract-based in a heavy industry setting, located in Vanderbijlpark–Gauteng area, with focus on quality assurance and non-conformance management. The ideal candidate holds a Mechanical Engineering qualification (National