Boilermaker

About the position

Job Purpose:

• To manufacture and ensure that all fibreglass equipment is maintained in good working order timeously and to a standard that will allow them to be run by production with minimal rejects.
• Attend to machine breakdowns of mechanical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control 

Minimum Requirements:

• Grade 12/ School leaving Certificate.
• Boilermaker Trade Test.
• Welding Qualification from an approved Training Institute.
• Minimum of 4- 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment

Responsibilities:

Maintenance Process (Scheduled):

• Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
• Inspect the tooling and determine spares, materials 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.
• Conduct Preventive Maintenance activities.

Maintenance Process (Breakdown):

• 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.
• File job requisition upon completion of repair.

Tooling Maintenance

• Inspect, maintain and repair production fibreglass tooling.
• Develop new tooling or modify existing fibreglass tooling when required.
• Inspect waterjet nests in the plant and asses and repair accordingly.
• Move, lift, lower and look after tooling

Fabrication

• Develop and fabricate waterjet nests and any other fibreglass tooling from drawings and other methods as required.
• Mechanically cut, drill and punch fabrication materials
• Join metals using the welding process.
• 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.
• Perform fabrication and welding as required on any equipment, structure and other work on projects, plant improvements or breakdowns.

Maintenance Process (Post Maintenance):

• 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 material/spares)
• Clean up after completion of job and inform the responsible person that the maintenance has been completed to the required standard.

Engineering Projects:

• Work as a project team member.

Material Handling:

• Sling loads.

Continuous Improvement:

• Participate in Continuous Improvement drives.

Reporting:

• Complete Maintenance Time Sheets (nature of work, time spent to repair, and material/spares used 

Desired Skills:

• Boilermaking
• Continuous Improvement
• Material Control