Technical Assistant

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Internal Job Title**:Technical Assistant**

Reports to**:Operations Manager**

Location**:Honeydew, Roodepoort, South Africa**

Job Reference No**:4164**

**Job Purpose**:
To achieve the Operations Targets and high levels of efficiency, productivity, quality and on time delivery by performing projects task as assigned to the operations team.

**Key Accountabilities**:
**Operations Assembly**
- To meet daily final assembly target as per the daily operations planning.
- Be accountable with daily assembly work
- Ensuring that tools, fixtures that are used are periodically in work condition.
- Use necessary tools and equipment to assemble products
- Locate all parts necessary for assembly in an efficient manner to achieve highest quality and lead times.
- Perform tasks on products according to drawings, instructions, or schematics.
- Performs other duties as assigned or required.
- Efficiency measures within the Final Assembly area is to maintain performance levels higher than 85% consistently.

**Health and Safety**
- Responsible for overall housekeeping being a 6S champion for assembly shop floor.
- Follow and adhere to all safety, quality and procedures.
- Identifying and reporting all potential risks associated with the key operations of the Warehouse

**Quality**
- Follow and adhere to all safety, quality and procedures.
- Reporting incidents, faulty operations, or product defects on the assembly line to management.
- Perform quality inspection and specifications on goods received
- Inspecting assembled products for any faults or defects.

**Warehouse**
- Perform some material handling functions.
- Identify quality problems or improvement opportunities

**Technical**

Technical knowledge and abilities to read electrical and mechanical diagrams.

The ability to interpret and use electrical schematics drawings.

**Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience**
- N4 or National Diploma in Electrical Engineering.
- The ability to interpret and use electrical schematics drawings.
- Electrical background and/or experience in electrical assembly, preferably switchgear industry will be added as advantage.
- Knowledge of all hand tools including wrenches, sockets, hammers, tape measures, crimpers, cutters, steel banding, and power tools such as impact guns, and pneumatic rivet guns.
- Ability to read and comprehend documents such as safety rules, operating maintenance instructions, drawings, etc.
- Self-starter and takes initiative for additional responsibilities and challenges.
- Work independently with mínimal supervision.
- Understanding the impact of poor quality and poor health and safety in a manufacturing environment.

**Behavioural Competencies**
- Interpersonal skills in handling inter-department day to day issues.
- Positive attitude and emotional intelligence skills.
- Competent time management and multi-tasking abilities.
- Ability to work with people from different background.
- Self-starter and takes initiative for additional responsibilities and challenges.
- Willingness to change, flex and learn
- Self-motivated
- Teamwork