We act for a leading manufacturing company in the Pietermaritzburg area, currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Service Mechanical Charge Hand to ensure planned maintenance schedules are carried out as instructed, and where necessary assistance given to the artisan or artisans responsible for carrying out the tasks.
Key Requirements:
- Minimum N2 in a mechanical field.
- Recognized trade test in Fitting/Fitting & Turning.
- 5 years fitting experience in heavy machinery. Coal fired boilers, 500Cfm to 1000Cfm compressors, Centrifugal and piston type water pumps.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the Boiler Attendants and Boiler Fireman in their duties in the running of the boiler
house. - Carry out respective plant checks to ensure artisans are complying with schedules as
instructed. - Attend to breakdowns and carry out necessary repairs in the shortest possible time.
- Manage the services and repairs to all mechanical equipment in the services department.
- Accurately record all work done on job cards or on planned maintenance schedules.
- Report all serious defects and/or defects which could not be repaired, to the Section
Foreman or the Engineering Manager. - Carry out safety inspections on equipment and plant as instructed.
- Undertake installation and modification of equipment and plant as instructed.
- Undertake any reasonable request of the Section Foreman or Engineering Manager.
- Standby cover.
- Overtime when necessary.
We welcome all applications from candidates that meet the above set requirements. Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful should you not hear from us within 14 days from the date of application
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