Maintenance Fitter

About the position

Maintenance Fitter required at the Port Elizabeth plant of a well-established manufacturer.

Minimum Requirements
Grade 12
Trade Test (Fitter)
2+ years relevant experience

Overview of duties

Maintenance

• Daily planned maintenance routines.
• 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.

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.

• 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

Desired Skills:

• fitter
• maintenance