Fitter - Plant Equipment Specialist

2 months ago

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Abantu Staffing Solutions Full time

About the Role:

To conduct mechanical maintenance and repairs on plant and equipment in a safe and efficient manner. The position reports to the Maintenance Specialist.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Scheduled Preventative Maintenance: Receive Maintenance Schedules, plan and execute before they expire. Interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
  • Inspect and Prepare: Inspect the tooling and determine spares and consumables requirements.
  • Job Requisition and Execution: Generate Job Requisitions for scheduled maintenance work (type of repair or maintenance, spares, quantities, time, etc.) and transport tools, equipment and spares to the work site.
  • Isolation and Safety: Isolate equipment, perform lockouts, complete the LOTO register and make the work area safe.
  • Permits and Record-Keeping: Complete the Contractors Permit to Work prior to contractors commencing with work on site and record all Scheduled Maintenance to the Maintenance Connection system.
  • Housekeeping and Plant Start-Ups: Maintain a clean and organized workshop and work area, and perform plant start-ups with the goal of ensuring the plant is ready for production.
  • Tracking and Record-Keeping: Track and record personal daily hours to ensure the KPA – Artisan Utilization of 75% is achieved.
  • Breakdown and Repair: Attend to machine breakdowns of a mechanical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control, update the responsible person on progress of repairs and escalate a problem/breakdown to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully.
  • Breakdown Record-Keeping: Record all Breakdowns to the Maintenance Connection system to aid in determining the root cause and to accurately calculate KPI and artisan utilisation data.
  • Mechanical Maintenance: Perform routine maintenance, align machines and equipment, diagnose and repair faults on equipment and machinery during production/operation and operate and monitor various machines and equipment for the production of simple components.
  • Fabrication: Mechanically cut, drill, punch and assemble fabrication materials using powered machinery, cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process and join metals using the resistance welding process.
  • Instrumentation Maintenance: Construct Basic Electronic Circuits, install Instrument impulse lines, maintain instrumentation equipment and carry out soldering and de-soldering procedures.
  • Post-Maintenance: Test and commission machinery or equipment prior to handover, complete the Planned Maintenance Schedule-Maintenance Connection (Work completed, work not completed, spares used, spares not available, time taken, observations, problems, etc.) and identify any other work required (including additional spares) and communicate to the Planner/Buyer.
  • Material Handling: Handle sling loads, operate cranes/hoists and operate forklifts.
  • Engineering Projects: Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control and work as a valuable team member, participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project and monitor and control actual cost against budget and contribute to the management of project risk within own field of expertise.

Requirements:

  • Grade 12 with Maths and Science
  • Trade Tested Fitter
  • N4 Mechanical Trade Theory and Mechano Technics (advantageous)
  • 5+ years' experience in heavy industry

About Us:

Abantu Staffing Solutions is a leading recruitment agency providing top talent to various industries and sectors.

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