Job Overview:

To conduct mechanical maintenance and repairs on plant and equipment in a safe and efficient manner. This position reports into the Maintenance Specialist. 

Minimum requirements: 

– Trade Tested Fitter and Turner (non-negotiable) 

– 4+ years’ post qualification experience

Scheduled Maintenance:

– Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work
– Inspect machines and determine spares and consumables requirements
– Generate Job Requisitions for scheduled maintenance work PPM (type of repair or maintenance, spares, quantities, time, etc.)
– Transport tools, equipment and spares to the work site
– Isolate equipment, perform lockouts and make the work area safe
– Conduct Preventive Maintenance activities
– Assist with change overs in the production environment as required
– Count stock for a Stock Take integrity check (check spares condition during the count)
– Maintain 5S Standards

Breakdown Maintenance:

– Attend to machine breakdowns of a mechanical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control
– Update the responsible person on progress of repairs
– Escalate the problem to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully
– Capture all information related to the breakdown to aid in determining the root cause
– File job requisition upon completion of repair
– Maintain equipment to the original OEM supplied state

Mechanical Maintenance:

– Perform routine maintenance
– Align machines and equipment
– Diagnose and repair faults on equipment and machinery during production/operation
– Commission and refurbish machines / equipment
– Operate and monitor a drilling machine to produce simple components
– Operate and monitor a lathe to produce simple components
– Operate and monitor a milling machine to produce simple components
– Operate and monitor a surface grinding machine to produce simple components
– Operate the Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) to seal moulds
– Perform basic and MIG/TIG welding of metals
– Grind tools and drill bits
– Maintain mechanical equipment (indirect and direct drives, pipe systems, static seals, bearings, brakes and clutches, direct drives, dynamic seals, heat exchangers and pressure vessels, lubricating systems, pumps, conveyor systems, compressors, fluid power / pneumatic / vacuum systems, gearboxes, safety valves)

– Change and set tooling

Fabrication:

– Form and shape sheet metal using hand or power operated machines
– Cut, drill and punch, assemble and mechanically join structural steel work
– Cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process (manual cutting)
– Join metals using the resistance welding process
– Assemble and mechanically join sheet, plate, tube, pipe and steel sections
– Weld work piece (oxy-acetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding)
– Remove metals using oxy-fuel and air-carbon arc gouging processes

Maintenance Process:

– Test and commission machinery or equipment prior to handover
– Complete the Planned Maintenance Schedule (Work completed, work not completed, spares used, spares not available, time taken, observations, problems, etc.)
– Identify any other work required (including additional spares)
– Clean up after completion of job and inform the responsible person that the maintenance has been completed to the required standard