E/I Artisan at AECI Limited

Job Description

• Perform scheduled and routine maintenance on all plant machinery, services and equipment.
• Perform engineering inspections, identify problem areas and implement proactive plant maintenance and plant improvement corrective actions.
• Attend to breakdowns as and when required to minimise downtime
• Maintaining all legal files and systems to required standards.
• Minimise plant breakdown and downtimes by identifying root causes of equipment failures and implementing corrective actions to optimise plant availability.
• Provide appropriate and adequate feedback and input to the Reliability Team Manager with respect to plant condition, spares and repairs carried out.
• Assists and identify requirements for Critical spares list on Plant and Equipment.
• Assist in the improvement and implementation of maintenance schedules and special work instructions in designated areas.
• Maintain housekeeping standards in the designated areas.
• The ability to operate the automated and relevant process machinery to produce products for, production purposes as and when required.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform scheduled and routine maintenance on all plant machinery, services and equipment.
• Perform engineering inspections, identify problem areas and implement proactive plant maintenance and plant improvement corrective actions.
• Attend to breakdowns as and when required to minimise downtime
• Maintaining all legal files and systems to required standards.
• Minimise plant breakdown and downtimes by identifying root causes of equipment failures and implementing corrective actions to optimise plant availability.
• Provide appropriate and adequate feedback and input to the Reliability Team Manager with respect to plant condition, spares and repairs carried out.
• Assists and identify requirements for Critical spares list on Plant and Equipment.
• Assist in the improvement and implementation of maintenance schedules and special work instructions in designated areas.
• Maintain housekeeping standards in the designated areas.
• The ability to operate the automated and relevant process machinery to produce products for, production purposes as and when required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified Artisan (Electrician, Instrument or Millwright) with a recognised trade test
• Minimum 2 years’ experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of Proximity sensors, VSD drivers, Control valves and Control loops.
• Good understanding of Pneumatic and Electro-Pneumatic systems.
• Ability to work a continuous shift pattern to support plant requirements if needed
• A good understanding and knowledge of safety standards, quality management and the production processes in a manufacturing environment
• Standby duty and after-hours maintenance as and when required
• Computer literacy.
• Own transport
• Own Tools
• Incumbent should be residing within a 30 km radius of the Modderfontein Factory site and be able to respond to call outs within 40 minutes.

Competencies

• Good communication skills
• Assertiveness
• Ability to function both independently as well as in a team matrix structure
• Critical information seeking
• Conceptual thinking
• Results orientation
• Analytical thinking
• Interpersonal awareness