Minimum Job Requirements:

Matric with Mathematics and Science.
Section 13 Red Seal Millwright Trade Test.
N4 Electro-Mechanical Certificate, Siemens PLC.
Min 5 yearsâ experience in heavy industry.
Min 5 yearsâ experience in Non-Woven Textile industry.

Key Performance Areas:
Report to the Maintenance Specialist:

Maintenance Process (Schedules Preventative Maintenance):
- Receive maintenance schedules, plan and execute before they expire. Interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
- Inspect the tooling and determine spares requirements.
- Generate job requisitions for scheduled maintenance work.
- Conduct preventive maintenance activities.
- Perform change overs in the production environment.
- Stock take integrity checks.
- All scheduled maintenance shall be recorded.
- Perform plant start-ups, timeously.
- Maintain good housekeeping.
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 a problem/breakdown to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully.
- All breakdowns shall be recorded to aid in determining root causes.
Mechanical Maintenance:
- Perform routine maintenance.
- Align machines and equipment.
- Diagnose and repair faults on equipment and machinery during production.
- Commission and refurbish machines and equipment.
- Operate and monitor:
  - drilling machine to produce simple components
  - lathe to produce simple components
  - milling machine to produce simple components
  - surface grinding machine to produce simple components.
- Operate the Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) to seal moulds.
- Perform basic and MIG/TIG welding of metals.
- Maintain mechanical equipment.
Electrical Maintenance :
- Design and construct Single/Three Phase Circuits.
- Design and install Electrical Wire Ways.
- Construct, commission and do fault tracing on low voltage reticulation networks (220Vac, 110Vac, 24DC).
- Install or replace and commission electrical equipment.
- Wire and commission three phase electrical circuits.
- Test and inspect a three-phase industrial/commercial installation.
- Inspect and maintain electrical equipment.
- Replace electrical equipment (electrical cables; faulty components in a distribution board; three-phase electrical motor between 5,5 kW and 75 kW).
- Fault find and repair (Domestic appliances; single phase alternating current (AC) systems; three phase voltage electrical circuits).
- Disconnect and connect electric motors.
- Handle and care for electrical earthing gear and related equipment.
- Joint low voltage cables.
- Troubleshoot on programmable logic controllers.
Fabrication:
- Mechanically cut, drill, punch and assemble fabrication materials using powered machinery.
- Cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process (manual cutting).
- Join metals using the resistance welding process.
- Weld workpiece (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.
Instrumentation Maintenance:
- Construct basic electronic circuits.
- Install instrument impulse lines.
- Maintain instrumentation equipment (Flow; Level; Pressure; Temperature; Intrinsically safe apparatus).
- Carry out soldering and de-soldering procedures.
Maintenance Process (Post Maintenance):
- Test and commission machinery or equipment prior to handover.
- Complete the Planned Maintenance Schedule-Maintenance Connection.
- Identify any other work required (including additional spares) and communicate to the Planner/Buyer.
- Clean up after completion of job and inform the responsible person that the maintenance has been completed to the required standard.
Material Handling:
- Handle sling loads, operate cranes/hoists, and operate forklifts.
Engineering Projects - Project Initiation:
- Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control and work as a valuable team member.
- Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project and monitor and control actual cost against budget.
Project Planning, Management, Administration:
- Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.
- Monitor, evaluate and communicate project schedules.
- Contribute to the management of project risk within own field of expertise.
- Supervise a Project team of a technical project when requested.
- Provide assistance within the project in the field of expertise.
- Support project meetings and workshops when required.