Job Purpose
- The job holder will be responsible for maintaining all equipment, optimize availability and reliability of equipment and give assistance with the co-ordination of line activities to meet the production plan.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Area 1: Undertake preventive maintenance
- Perform all mechanical repairs as required to ensure the plant is operating optimally.
- Record and provide feedback on the causes and corrective action for all breakdown including analysing and interpreting the breakdown trends and history.
- Ensure that all specified preventive maintenance tasks are performed, including cleaning, inspections, lubrication and scheduled maintenance.
- Give feedback regarding the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance program in order to improve the effectiveness.
- Conduct regular (scheduled and un-scheduled) inspection of all equipment and initiate work orders if necessary.
- Participate in maintenance planning and provide feedback on maintenance performed in order to drive the development of effective Maintenance systems.
- Assist with upgrading of plant by mechanical parts, drawing machine parts and preparing reference files and documentation of machine manuals.
- Co-ordinate and perform repairs within level of competencies and assist with complex repairs in adherence to the trigger system regarding breakdown maintenance.
- Monitor equipment / process quality performance, availability, reliability and document downtime events, in detailed engineering reports
- Adhere to all relevant policies, procedures, work instruction and SOPs at all times including risk, health and safety procedures and statutory requirements.
Area 2: Health & Safety
- Identify, communicate all risks and implement measures to prevent injuries and ensure the health and safety of employees by conducting hazard analysis on an on-going basis.
Area 3: Job cards Reports
- Responsible for correct completion of job cards and daily shift report
- Machine condition and audit report
- Maintenance reports
Area 4: Inspection of equipment’s
- Conduct regular (scheduled and un-scheduled) inspection of all equipment and initiate work orders if necessary.
Minimum Requirements
- A qualified Technician with Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
- At least two (2) year experience in equipment maintenance within a manufacturing organisation (Bottling preferable).
Competencies/Attributes
- Technical knowledge of equipment maintenance.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Experience in carrying out routine fixes and maintenance.
- Ability to do manual work over a long period of time.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Good planning and organisational skills.
- High level of Integrity.
- Relationships and working contacts
