Artisan Aide

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**:

- To assist Artisan with servicing, maintenance and overhaul of equipment and machinery.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Grade 10/Standard 8 Technical (Essential/Minimum)
- AET Level 4 (Essential/Minimum)
- Skills Program: AA Fitting inc Machinery (Essential/Minimum or)
- Skills Program: AA Diesel Mechanic (Essential/Minimum or)
- Skills Program: AA Plater Welder (Essential/Minimum or)
- Skills Program: AA Electrical (Essential/Minimum)

**EXPERIENCE**:
1 year Applicable technical support and assistance as Helper/Operator in a heavy industry environment (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Equipment Operations and Control**
- First level inspection and observing all mechanical and electrical equipment to identify deviations
- All mechanical and electrical equipment are continuously maintained to repair identified deviations in time to prevent breakdowns, damaged equipment, injuries and production delays
- Conduct basic fault finding
- Basic analytical ability to interpret information to reach decisions

**Maintenance, Process and Equipment Efficiency**
- Assist artisans in the maintenance of primary and secondary equipment (perform partly independent to the level of competence)
- All production equipment is maintained reactively and on a scheduled basis to ensure equipment availability and reliability
- Breakdowns are attended to immediately to restore availability and reported to the foreman
- Specified components and spares are reconditioned for installation
- Repaired equipment is tested for functionality before handing over

**Safe and Healthy Work Environment**
- Adhere to all health and safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
- Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations, rectify and report to superior
- Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC)/technical requirements
- Responsible to wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times

**Skills Management**
- Weld and cut
- Install refractory work

**Behavioural Alignment**

Demonstrates the following:

- Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
- Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
- Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
- Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
- Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.