Operation jobs in South Africa

Our client is looking for a Maintenance Fitter to join their company

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To offer mechanical support to factory operations ensuring that equipment downtime is kept to an absolute minimum

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS :

Educational :

• Matric / Grade 12 (minimum)

Experience :

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a heavy industrial environment.
• Must have a sound knowledge of automated manufacturing equipment.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY RESULT AREAS

Maintenance

• Daily planned maintenance
• Daily preventative maintenance routines
• Routine inspections / early diagnoses of possible equipment failures, excessive wear
• Communication with supervisors / production to arrange preventative maintenance time
• Arranging for parts to be available timeously to carry out preventative maintenance routines

Fault diagnosis / repairs to equipment

• Diagnose root cause of equipment failure
• Plan action to remove cause of failure
• Repair failure to “good as new” as speedily as possible
• Report on action taken and record downtime
• Ensure equipment’s correct operation due to the action taken and obtain manufacturing process approval of equipment’s operating condition

Service to production requirements

• Availability at all times to assist with production requests
• Assist production in resolving process related problems
• Assist with operator training where required
• Communicate with production on planning changes to production runs timeously
• Identify and communicate with production problems not yet apparent with production, and advise accordingly and report back in writing to maintenance super

Maintaining machine process capabilities

• First off” inspection on all process changes
• Periodically inspect product manufactured against quality requirements
• Inspect statistical process charts to evaluate equipment capability and correct where necessary
• Plot engineering related statistical process charts and use of barometer of equipment performance
• Report in writing on out-of-control conditions to superior
• Daily Housekeeping

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEGDE AND REQUIRED SKILLS :

• A good understanding of Quality requirements in a Manufacturing environment
• Excellent Problem-solving

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Maintenance Fitter • Port Elizabeth, South Africa