Job Purpose:
- To manufacture and ensure that all fibreglass equipment is maintained in good working order timeously and to a standard that will allow them to be run by production with minimal rejects.
- Attend to machine breakdowns of mechanical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control
Minimum Requirements:
- Grade 12/ School leaving Certificate.
- Boilermaker Trade Test.
- Welding Qualification from an approved Training Institute.
- Minimum of 4- 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
Responsibilities:
Maintenance Process (Scheduled):
- Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
- Inspect the tooling and determine spares, materials and consumables requirements.
- Generate Job Requisitions for scheduled maintenance work (type of repair or maintenance, spares, quantities, time, etc.)
- Transport tools, equipment and spares to the work site.
- Conduct Preventive Maintenance activities.
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 the problem to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully.
- Capture all information related to the breakdown to aid in determining the root cause.
- File job requisition upon completion of repair.
Tooling Maintenance
- Inspect, maintain and repair production fibreglass tooling.
- Develop new tooling or modify existing fibreglass tooling when required.
- Inspect waterjet nests in the plant and asses and repair accordingly.
- Move, lift, lower and look after tooling
Fabrication
- Develop and fabricate waterjet nests and any other fibreglass tooling from drawings and other methods as required.
- Mechanically cut, drill and punch fabrication materials
- Join metals using the welding process.
- Weld work piece (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.
- Perform fabrication and welding as required on any equipment, structure and other work on projects, plant improvements or breakdowns.
Maintenance Process (Post Maintenance):
- Complete the Planned Maintenance Schedule (Work completed, work not completed, spares used, spares not available, time taken, observations, problems, etc.)
- Identify any other work required (including additional material/spares)
- Clean up after completion of job and inform the responsible person that the maintenance has been completed to the required standard.
Engineering Projects:
- Work as a project team member.
Material Handling:
Continuous Improvement:
- Participate in Continuous Improvement drives.
Reporting:
- Complete Maintenance Time Sheets (nature of work, time spent to repair, and material/spares used
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