Fitter and Turner

5 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa CME Recruitment Full time

**Fitter & Turner Technician**

**Qualifications required**: Red Seal as qualified Fitter & Turner with an N4 to N6 in Mechanical engineering

**Years working experience required**: 10 plus

**Fitter and Turner Duties**
- Maintains and repairs machinery
- Assembles and fits components for machinery
- Uses blueprints/plans to measure material for production
- Monitors machinery and repairs faults
- Fits parts required to complete the machine
- Manufacture steel components
- Operating and monitoring workshop mahines such as lathes, milling machines, or any other steel fabrication equipment
- Maintenance of all the above-mentioned equipment
- Performing similar tasks when machining plastics and other materials
- Inspecting work pieces for defects, and measuring work pieces to determine accuracy of machine operation, using rulers, templates, or other measuring instruments (i.e. micrometer and vernia callipers)
- Changing worn machine accessories, such as cutting tools and brushes, and using hand tools
- Knowledge of materials available and the uses thereof, including hardening and heat treatment identification
- Oversee and mentor apprentices according to their logbook requirements.
- Evaluate and sign off on completed duties by apprentices.
- Provide guidance and knowledge transfer to junior team members.

**Technician Duties**
- Attend to onsite breakdowns, identify fault and problem solve, with mínimal downtime to production
- Carry out diagnosis of faults, the maintenance and repairs to all types of plant and equipment in a safe, timely and professional manner and return equipment to operational service
- Observing machine operations to detect work piece defects or machine malfunctions, and adjusting machines as necessary, in order to improve the operating efficiency of the equipment
- Ensure that all tools conform to customer standards
- Estimate length of time required to complete a job and likely consequences of failure to complete work within required timescales
- Advising & Consulting with clients on requirements
- Identify and escalate any activity that has the potential to cause harm or damage
- Report breakdown root causes, equipment faults and concerns to Management
- Ensure all work is undertaken to a high quality standard and adheres to all customer quality standard regulations
- Identify spare requirements and generate critical spares lists
- General fitting & assembly of machinery
- Basic electrical understanding and troubleshooting of 3Phase, Single phase and 24 Volt circuits
- Assist with the moving, installation, repositioning of machines and equipment
- Plan and prioritise workload to support production and ensure efficient use of working time
- Fill in/Open job tickets/log completion of work on the computerised or manual maintenance management system accurately and timeously as prescribed by the employer
- Ensure all personal protective equipment is identified, always available, correctly used and all associated problems are reported to management
- Ensure all lost time, minor and trivial accidents are reported
- Promote environmental issues and ensure all company procedures are understood and followed
- Ensure a safe working environment exists for self and colleagues
- Conform to all KPA requirements of the Company
- Able to interpret technical drawings and produce technical drawing where required
- Basic understanding of all power machines
- Keep up with current and developing manufacturing and engineering trends regarding maintenance
- Undertake special projects as required
- Quality control of work by appropriate reviews
- Actively utilise continuous improvement methodology to progress the maintenance function
- Writing up reports and quotations as required
- Assist in other Departments as and when required, dependant on operational requirements of the business
- Train and assist junior staff
- Procurement and sourcing of components
- Customer liaison and advising customers and Management on progress status of jobs daily
- Taking care of allocated housekeeping area
- Responsible for all tools required to complete their job
- Undertake continuous training and development as provided by the Company
- Work with general hand and power tools
- Securing of premises and activating alarm, when leaving
- Fulfilment of all lawful and legal requests from Management

**Self Management and other Skill requirements**
- Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the
- Company Handbook, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures
- Embraces personal challenge
- Confident, rounded thinking
- Is self-aware
- Is resilient, optimistic and open to change
- High levels of motivation and action orientated
- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working together.
- Ability to work within a Team but also function independently.
- Ability to think logically.
- Professional Customer service skills.
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