Electrician - Gyproc

4 days ago


Cape Town, South Africa Saint-Gobain Full time

To conduct electrical maintenance and support production through plant setup and monitoring, thereby ensuring electrical plant reliability. Electrical reliability contributes to the overall efficiency of the plant, a key performance indicator of the business.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Minimum NTC2 electrical.
- Passed trade test as an Electrician.
- 1-year experience in an automated or partially automated production environment
- Experience with electrical plant maintenance.
- Familiarity with PLC, VFD and SCADA operation.
- Computer literacy essential.
- Able to work autonomously and complete all assigned tasks within deadlines. Willingness to work shifts in support of a 24/7 production schedule.
- Willingness to rotate after-hours standby duties.

**Additional Requirements**:

- Perform planned maintenance (PM01) tasks as assigned by the Electrical Foreman. Perform ad-hoc maintenance (maintenance tags, PM02, breakdowns, calibrations). Maintain a high standard of discipline and adherence to company procedures and required safety standards.
- Minimise plant downtime by ensuring effective and efficient maintenance or repairs are carried out.
- To inspect all sections of the plant and facilities frequently and to raise maintenance tags for poor electrical standards.
- To conduct safety and environmental audits as per departmental targets.
- To do fault finding on machines and use the applicable WCM tool (e.g. EWO, 5WHY, Quick Kaizen)
- To identify improvements in the process that could be made by modifying or replacing of plant and to bring such information to the attention of management.
- To inform plant management of all situations or conditions that could result in downtime and to take all such remedial action as is necessary to minimise downtime as a result thereof.
- Completion of WCM-related tasks and projects in line with the plant annual plan as instructed by the electrical foreman.
- Monitoring of plant machinery during production (on shift rotation as required by production plan) and reporting problems or risks to the relevant foreman.
- Lock-out/ tag-out support for all departments and contractors as per isolation procedures.
- Completion of all paperwork required by Company and site procedures.
- To perform tasks related to departmental performance measures (KPIs) as determined by the Electrical Engineer.