Shift Mechanical Technician - Enstra at Kimberly-Clark

Main Responsibilities 

Safety:

• Comply with all Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) rules and regulations at all times. (e.g.10 critical safety rules and three obligations)
• Ensure safety job cards are completed in a timely manner.
• Daily plant safety assessments
• Completion of task risk assessments prior to performing any work.

Quality:

• Report and correct defective equipment
• Carry out daily checks and completion of check-sheets
• Ensure no reworks or repeat failures
• Exhibit good fault finding skills –standard approach e.g. 4SPS
• Ensure all job cards are completed and inputted timeously.
• Ensure full SAP utilization.

Housekeeping:

• Maintain world class levels of housekeeping according to the 5’s housekeeping standards
• Productivity:
• Repairs, replacements, adjustments, installations, removals and overhauls, etc. on all forms of mechanical equipment and related equipment.
• Maintains a wide range of mechanical equipment such as pumps, fans, rolls, bearings, belts, chains, etc.
• Ensures adequate quality assurance and quality control on all work.
• Non-conformance reporting.
• Works with Team Leaders and Engineers to resolve reliability issues.
• Provides support to planned maintenance shuts and machine start-ups/shut-downs.
• Plant shut-down input and planning
• Ensures critical equipment spare parts are checked and available
• Support operating teams to achieve set KPI’s

About You

• As a person, you’re a balanced thinker, a motivated fixer – someone who is always taking initiative to solve problems, make things better and respectfully engage others along the journey with you. As a Mechanical Technician, you have a strong technical track record, work best under pressure and deliver high value to your team by owning issues through resolution, exercising strong situational judgment and favoring a proactive vs. reactive approach to equipment maintenance.  You also…
• Trade Tested Mechanical with N4 or equivalent tertiary qualification. (Red Seal)
• Minimum of at least 4 years post trade test experience in a Manufacturing or FMCG environment.
• Knowledge of pulp & paper will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of pneumatic, hydraulic, gearboxes, mechanical rollers, belt drives, chain drives and general knowledge of mechanical systems associated with manufacturing environments.
• Technical and Process knowledge of the Pulp & Paper environment.
• An incumbent that can work standby on a rotational basis
• An incumbent with a Mill wide mechanical engineering fault find skills.
• Logical problem-solving skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• An incumbent that can work independently.
• Safety awareness