Plant Maintenance General Fitter

4 days ago


Durban, South Africa RJPersonnel Full time

3years
- Conduct scheduled, planned maintenance of equipment
- Participate in development of a maintenance plan and maintenance schedules
- Conduct routine inspections in accordance with maintenance plan/schedule and maintenance task lists
- Report on routine inspection findings on maintenance schedules, and prioritise follow upwork
- Identify equipment requiring maintenance during walkabouts and operator interactions
- Conduct Unscheduled Repairs of Mechanical Plant Equipment
- Ensure 95% availability of equipment through planned maintenance
- Do fault finding on equipment faults
- Capture all downtime for breakdowns on spreadsheets and/or visual charts
- Perform Modifications and Upgrades of Equipment
- Compile modification/design and specification upgrade schedule
- Examine equipment diagrams to plan upgrades and maintenance
- Modification of old designs to suit available parts
- Ensure all diagrams, specifications and documentation are stored in designated storage area
- Ensure that the contractors perform according to the contract
- Conduct root cause analysis on all breakdowns (5-whys)
- Identify corrective and preventative actions to rectify breakdown and eliminate root cause
- Assist in updating of maintenance plans/schedules as required from root cause analysis
- Participate in higher level problem solving (fishbone analysis) to identify possible root causes in updating of SOPs as required from actions from 5-whys and fishbone analysis

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Minimum requirements are N3 mechanical/millwright Trade tested Fitter and Turner
- General Maintenance
- Fitting and Turning experience
- Welding experience
- 3+ years' post-apprenticeship experience in in mechanical maintenance environment
- Hydraulics and Pneumatics
- Variable speed gearboxes


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