R17,000 - R27,000 per month
Permanent Intermediate position
Port Elizabeth

About the position

Maintenance Fitter required at the Port Elizabeth plant of a well-established manufacturer.

Minimum Requirements
Grade 12
Trade Test (Fitter)
2+ years relevant experience

Overview of 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 equipment's correct operation due to the action taken and obtain manufacturing process approval of equipment's 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
Desired Skills:

fitter
maintenance