TFC Maintenance Artisan Millwright - East Plant

Samancor Chrome Ltd.; Steelpoort; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Samancor Chrome Ltd. in Limpopo, South Africa, seeks a qualified Millwright to maintain, diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair mechanical and electrical plant equipment for safe, reliable operations.

You will manage maintenance tasks, isolation, and lockout procedures, while ensuring accurate reporting and adherence to SHEQ and IMS standards. The role requires Grade 12/N3, a Millwright Trade Test, and around 3 years’ relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 / N3 or equivalent
• Completed Millwright Trade Test
• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience in industrial maintenance

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance, diagnosis, and repair of mechanical and electrical plant equipment to ensure safe, reliable operations.
• Record history and complete notifications to required standards.
• Verify Work Orders with correct time and complete details.
• Provide feedback on discrepancies between instructions and job requirements.
• Communicate if spares or equipment are unavailable and inform Maintenance Supervisor.
• Generate Notifications from inspections and follow-up actions.
• Perform isolation and lockout procedures.
• Attend to breakdowns quickly and safely to minimize downtime.
• Capture data related to stoppages to help determine root causes.
• Suggest improvements in how breakdowns are handled to Maintenance Specialist.
• Change out faulty items and create PM orders for stock draws.
• Create reservations for rotable items on PM orders and subsequent notifications.
• Complete all fields on the Damage tag for rotable returns.
• Transport damaged rotables to lay-down area and handle loads using overhead crane and forklift.
• Maintain and repair low and high voltage electrical equipment; perform electrical isolation.
• Planned maintenance on conveyors, pumps, gearboxes, drives; alignment and motor changeovers.
• Assess risk exposures and apply mitigations; comply with SHEQ and IMS reporting requirements.

Skills

3 years’ relevant experience

Education

Grade 12 / N3

Millwright Trade Test

Tools

IMS

EBMS

Chromedoc

SAP

MES

Job description

2026/10/22

Reference Number

TFC8490

Description

Purpose of the job

To maintain, diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair mechanical and electrical plant equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Perform the job as outlined in the Work Order and as per the detailed Task List.
• Capture history & complete the notification to the required standard.
• Confirm Work Order with the correct time and all details to the required standard.
• Provide feedback to the Maintenance Specialist on any task where there is a difference between the task instruction and the job requirements.
• Communicate if spares, equipment or other factors were not available for job on the work order and to the Maintenance Supervisor.
• Generate Notifications from inspections and subsequent Notifications.
• Perform isolation and issue lockout documents.
• Attend to breakdown quickly and safely.
• Capture all data related to the stoppage to aid in determining the root cause.
• Communicate ways of improving how the breakdown was handled to the Maintenance Specialist.
• Change out item.
• Create PM order detailing item to be drawn from stock.
• Create reservation for rotable on PM Order.
• Create subsequent notification.
• Complete all fields on the "Damage" tag on the return item to rotable store.
• Physically transport damaged rotable to lay down area.
• Handle loads by means of an overhead crane.
• Lift and move loads by means of a forklift.
• Maintaining and/or repairing low and high voltage electrical equipment.
• Mechanical and electrical isolation.
• Planned maintenance on conveyors/pumps/gearboxes/drives, precision alignment, motor changeovers, breakdown response, PM scheduling, rotable management.
• Identify and assess level of continuous risk exposures in area of responsibility by considering exposures to people, equipment, material, environment, processes, etc.
• Consider the level of risk, apply mitigation and implement control measures for residual risk.
• Participate and comply with SHEQ requirements (SHEQ Toolbox).
• Utilise the Integrated Management System (IMS) to initiate and report SHEQ status.

Requirements

• Grade 12 / N3
• Completed Millwright Trade Test
• 3 years’ relevant experience

Systems

• Microsoft Programs
• Samancor Chrome Systems (IMS, EBMS, Chromedoc, SAP, MES)

Knowledge

Demonstrate an understanding of

• Conveyor belt experience (Safety devices),
• Knowledge of general electrical distribution in plants and buildings,
• Transformer maintenance experience,
• Knowledge of air compressor,
• Knowledge of VSD’s and soft starters (Danfoss),
• Knowledge of MA relays (NEW-ELEC),
• Knowledge of PLC’s (Allen Bradley),
• Fault finding on electrical circuits 220v, 380v and 6.6Kv, 33KV

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Safety Awareness
• Initiative
• Managing Work
• Results Orientation
• Work Standards
• Interpersonal Skills
• Communication
• Contributing to team Success

Selection Procedure

• Assessments

Closing Date

29 October 2026

Samancor Chrome shall apply the Employment Equity Principles as set out in the company’s Employment Equity Policy.