PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

• To offer technical support to factory operations ensuring that equipment downtime is kept to an absolute minimum. 
• MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY RESULT AREAS:
• 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 supervisor
• 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

Inherent Requirements    
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Educational:

• Matric / Grade 12 (minimum)
• Qualified Artisan (N5), Trade Test
• Diploma Mechanical/ Electrical

Experience:

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in a heavy industrial environment.
• Must have a sound knowledge of automated manufacturing equipment