A very well established client in the Automotive industry, located in Durban , is looking for a Millwright to join their team.
Job Purpose:
- To conduct mechanical and electrical maintenance and repairs on plant and equipment in a safe and efficient manner
Requirements for Applicants:
- Must be in possession of a Grade 12 with Mathematics and Science
- Section 13 Red Seal Millwright trade tested
- N4 electro-mechanical certificate
- 5 Years’ experience in heave industry.
- Siemens PLC
- Experience with moulds, carousels and gears
Key Performance Areas:
- Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work
- Inspect the tooling and determine spares and consumables requirements
- Generate Job Requisitions for scheduled maintenance work (type of repair or maintenance, spares, quantities, time, etc.)
- Transport tools, equipment and spares to the work site
- Attend to machine breakdowns of a mechanical/electrical 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.
- 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
- Construct, commission and do fault tracing on low voltage reticulation networks (220Vac, 110Vac, 24DC)
- Install or replace and commission electrical equipment (lighting systems; electrical cables and conductors; earth leakage unit in a low voltage circuit; metering units or measuring instruments; low and medium voltage transformers; batteries; electrical wire ways; direct current (DC) machines three phase AC electrical circuits, machines and control gear)
- Wire and commission three phase electrical circuits
- Inspect and clean (electrical machines; enhanced safety apparatus; electrical motors)
- Mechanically cut, drill, punch and assemble fabrication materials using powered machinery
- Cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process (manual cutting)
- Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control and work as a valuable team member
If you feel that you are the right candidate for this position, kindly email your CV to Alana Botha at
