E/i Artisan

Perform scheduled and routine maintenance on all plant machinery, services and equipment.
- Perform engineering inspections, identify problem areas and implement proactive plant maintenance and plant improvement corrective actions.
- Attend to breakdowns as and when required to minimise downtime
- Maintaining all legal files and systems to required standards.
- Minimise plant breakdown and downtimes by identifying root causes of equipment failures and implementing corrective actions to optimise plant availability.
- Provide appropriate and adequate feedback and input to the Reliability Team Manager with respect to plant condition, spares and repairs carried out.
- Assists and identify requirements for Critical spares list on Plant and Equipment.
- Assist in the improvement and implementation of maintenance schedules and special work instructions in designated areas.
- Maintain housekeeping standards in the designated areas.
- The ability to operate the automated and relevant process machinery to produce products for, production purposes as and when required.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Perform scheduled and routine maintenance on all plant machinery, services and equipment.
- Perform engineering inspections, identify problem areas and implement proactive plant maintenance and plant improvement corrective actions.
- Attend to breakdowns as and when required to minimise downtime
- Maintaining all legal files and systems to required standards.
- Minimise plant breakdown and downtimes by identifying root causes of equipment failures and implementing corrective actions to optimise plant availability.
- Provide appropriate and adequate feedback and input to the Reliability Team Manager with respect to plant condition, spares and repairs carried out.
- Assists and identify requirements for Critical spares list on Plant and Equipment.
- Assist in the improvement and implementation of maintenance schedules and special work instructions in designated areas.
- Maintain housekeeping standards in the designated areas.
- The ability to operate the automated and relevant process machinery to produce products for, production purposes as and when required.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Qualified Artisan (Electrician, Instrument or Millwright) with a recognised trade test
- Minimum 2 years’ experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of Proximity sensors, VSD drivers, Control valves and Control loops.
- Good understanding of Pneumatic and Electro-Pneumatic systems.
- Ability to work a continuous shift pattern to support plant requirements if needed
- A good understanding and knowledge of safety standards, quality management and the production processes in a manufacturing environment
- Standby duty and after-hours maintenance as and when required
- Computer literacy.
- Own transport
- Own Tools
- Incumbent should be residing within a 30 km radius of the Modderfontein Factory site and be able to respond to call outs within 40 minutes.

**Competencies**:

- Good communication skills
- Assertiveness
- Ability to function both independently as well as in a team matrix structure
- Critical information seeking
- Conceptual thinking
- Results orientation
- Analytical thinking
- Interpersonal awareness