Mainenance Fitter
Abantu Staffing Solutions
- Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Matric/ Grade 12 (minimum)
- Qualified Artisan (N3), Trade Test
- Minimum 5 years experience in a heavy industrial environment
- Must have a sound knowledge of automated manufacturing equipment
- A good understanding of quality requirements in a manufacturing environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Must be prepared to work shifts when required
- Self-starter
- Must be able to work without supervision
- Assertive and resilient
- Internal customer focus
- Flexible and disciplined
- Daily planned maintenance
- Daily preventative maintenance routines
- Routine inspections/ early diagnoses of possible equipment failures, and excessive wear
- Communication with supervisors/ production to arrange preventative maintenance time
- Arranging for parts to be available timeously to carry out preventative maintenance routines
- Diagnose the root cause of equipment failure
- Plan action to remove the cause of failure
- Repair failure to “good as new” as speedily as possible
- Report on action taken and record downtime
- Ensure equipment's correct operation due to the action taken and obtain manufacturing process approval of equipment's operating condition
- Availability at all times to assist with production requests
- Assist production in resolving process-related problems
- Assist with operator training where required
- Communicate with production on planning changes to production runs timeously
- Identify and communicate with production problems not yet apparent to production, advise accordingly and report back in writing to the maintenance super
- “First off” inspection on all process changes
- Periodically inspect products manufactured against quality requirements
- Inspect statistical process charts to evaluate equipment capability and correct where necessary
- Plot engineering-related statistical process charts and use of barometer of equipment performance
- Report in writing on out-of-control conditions to superior
- Daily housekeeping