Maintenance Fitter

About the position

Our client in the Manufacturing industry, based in Port Elizabeth, is currently looking to employ an experienced Maintenance Fitter. 

Minimum 5 years’ experience in a heavy industrial environment AND red seal qualified secures!

An exciting career opportunity awaits you!
PURPOSE OF THE JOB

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

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a heavy industrial environment.
• Must have a sound knowledge of automated manufacturing equipment.
• Matric / Grade 12 (minimum).
• Qualified Artisan (N3), Trade Test.
• Red seal qualified.

Responsibilities, include  :

1. 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.

2.  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.

3. 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.

4. Maintaining machine process: 

• "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.

Kindly be advised that should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful. 

Desired Skills:

• root
• production
• fitter
• red seal
• artisan
• electrical
• mechanical