You will play a crucial role in ensuring the availability and performance of our production machinery. Your responsibilities will include installing, maintaining, upgrading, and fabricating equipment to improve uptime and to meet production targets.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Install, maintain and repair production machinery and equipment.
- Inspect drives, motors, gearboxes, conveyor belts, and bearings for wear and damages.
- Ensure good housekeeping standards and maintenance.
- Identify spares requirements.
- Collaborate with engineers, production managers, and other team members to ensure projects are completed on time and within budgets.
- Apply a first time-right approach and follow proper fault-finding procedures, documenting them correctly.
- Comply with food safety standards; experience in the FMCG sector is advantageous.
- Diagnose, correct, and improve mechanical issues on plant machinery.
- Be able to size bearings, gearboxes, motors, and drive systems.
Education and Qualifications
- Must have a grade 12 senior certificate or N3 from South Africa.
- Must have a trade test as either a Millwright or Mechanical Fitter.
- Must have 3-5 years mechanical fitting experience.
- Experience with conveying systems, ovens, blowers, boilers, compressors, flaking mills, hammermills, and packaging machinery is advantageous.
- Valid Driver’s license with a willingness to work overtime, public holidays, weekends, shifts, and standby duties.
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