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Assistant Technician Responsibilities • Cleans elevator cars, motor rooms, pits, escalators, and moving sidewalks, using equipment such as brooms, dust pans, and wipe cloths, in order to keep the machinery free of dust, dirt, trash, and leaking oil. • Verifies that all elevator car controls and lights are functional by depressing each button on the elevator car station panel, such as the floor, stop, door open, and close buttons, and reviewing the lighted position indicator panel, safety edge, and overhead lights, in order to ensure the controls are accessible to the public, all lights and buttons are lit when they should be, and replace any burned out bulbs as needed. • Opens elevator doors, either independently or under the supervision of an Elevator Mechanic, using tools such as an elevator door pick, in order to free passengers rapped in a recalcitrant elevator car or gain access to the elevator pit or shaft when the elevator car is not on the same floor. • Opens the service cabinet door in an elevator car using a mechanical override control key in order to take the car out of service for maintenance or place it back into service when maintenance or repair is completed. • Rides elevator cars to all building floors in order to verify that all doors open smoothly, the floor of the car is level with the building’s floor, the elevator stops at all floors, and the car is running with no issues. • Rides on top of the elevator car during the lubrication of the cables and safety inspections by monitoring counterweight or moving elevators in adjacent shafts in order to ensure that electric motors, cables, chains, sheaves, and gears are well maintained and assist the supervisor or lead worker in a safe manner. • Checks the wearing on the brushes, brake shoes, and the oil level in the gear boxes and motors on elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks in order to ensure that the machinery is functioning appropriately. • Visually and audibly inspects stopped elevators, escalators, or moving sidewalks for issues, including obstructions, broken steps, damaged comb teeth, damaged buttons, and/or jammed handrails, in order to identify the issue, notify a supervisor or lead worker, and restart the equipment if necessary. • Lifts out escalator steps, moving sidewalk deck plates, and metal floor plates covering the pit, using tools such as screwdrivers and wrenches, in order to access the elevator, escalator, or moving sidewalk machinery and perform maintenance and repairs. • Visually inspects the pit and machine room of a hydraulic elevator by looking for leaking hydraulic fluid from the piston(s) and determining that a sufficient amount of fluid is in the reservoir in order to keep the supervisor or lead worker advised when the packing in the pistons is leaking. • Removes and replaces elevator, escalator, and moving sidewalk components, such as drive motors, belts, and pumps, in order to repair out-of-service equipment for inspection by the supervisor or lead worker. • Repairs elevator, escalator, and moving sidewalk components by overhauling gearboxes, replacing bearings and seals, adjusting chains and drive sprockets. Assistant Technician Requirements • Matric or Matric equivalent. • N3 Mechanical/Electrical. • 1 year experience as an assistant technician. • A driver’s license. • Contactable references. • Assistant Technician to have own day-to-day tools. The post Assistant Lift Technician x2 appeared first on freerecruit.co.za . Apply Now

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