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Alice Full-day Full-time

Description:

Qualifications
  • Matric
  • Trade Tested (a must)Requirements
    • Minimum 3 years experience in the large industrial machine industry
    • Minimum 3 years experience in the large industrial machine industry
    • Knowledge of Crushing Equipment
    • Must have worked on lubrication equipment
    • Gearboxes and bearings experience
    • Basic rigging and slinging experience
    • Basic welding and gas cutting experienceDuties
      • Always promote safe work leadership during maintenance activities on company equipment, as fitter and team leader.
      • Assemble the various sub-assemblies of an company machine into a working unit.
      • Move any piece of companies equipment into or out of a working position at a mine site, quarry, or other such location.
      • Perform necessary inspections on a newly assembled company machine to make sure that it will operate properly on start-up.
      • Perform specific tests on company equipment, such as stall-test, output feed size gradations, lubrication feed rate measurements, temperature monitoring, take current overload readings etc.
      • Perform troubleshooting and problem solving tasks to identify the root cause of any problems being experienced with equipment.
      • Monitor company equipment operating in the field for the purpose of improving the performance, either in terms of throughput rate, output product size, ability to handle difficult (eg. Hard or sticky) material, or for any other reason. Thereafter the Service Engineer must be able to present his suggestions to the customer, or to the company sales or design company, and also carry out the necessary work to effect the changes required.
      • Remove broken or damaged equipment and replace it with new/repaired equipment.
      • Provide training and/or instruction to the customers workforce on how to perform maintenance tasks in a safe effective manner.
      • Record suggestions for design improvements and feed these back as part of the site reporting, so that they can be passed on to company Design and Consultancy.
      • Skills and knowledge transfer to assistant workforce and trainees(apprentices)
      • Perform all physical activities that are required to fulfil the duties described above in a safe and professional manner, either alone or in conjunction with other persons who may, or may not be familiar with company equipment. This work may involve:
      • Making use of heavy tooling
      • Moving large or bulky parts manually
      • Working at heights and in confined spaces
      • Working in extreme weather conditions
      • Working long shifts
      • Carry out high levels of physical strenuous work
      • Work involving the extensive use of hard power tools
      • Work in conjunction with other engineering disciplines, such as electrical engineering, civil engineering, rigging and haulage, customers production operators etc.
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26 Mar 2025;   from: gumtree.co.za

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