Staff Solutions Recruitment | Maintenance Fitter

Qualifications and Requirements: Matric / Grade 12 (minimum)Qualified Artisan (N5),Trade TestDiploma Mechanical/ ElectricalMinimum 5 years experience in a heavy industrial environment.Must have a sound knowledge of automated manufacturing equipment.Duties:Maintenance: Daily planned maintenance routines.Daily preventative maintenance routines:Routine inspections/early diagnoses of possible equipment failures, excessive wear.Communication with supervisors/production to arrange preventative maintenance time.Arranging for parts to be available timeously to carry out preventative maintenance routines.Fault diagnosis/repairs to equipment :Diagnose root cause of equipment failure.Plan action to remove cause of failure.Repair failure to "good as new" as speedily as possible.Report on action taken and record downtime.Ensure equipments correct operation due to the action taken and obtain manufacturing process approval of equipments operating condition.Service to production requirements : 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 with production, and advise accordingly and report back in writing to maintenance super. Maintaining machine process capabilities: "First off" inspection on all process changes.Periodically inspect product 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