This role will be responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of food production equipment. You will play a key role in ensuring smooth operations, addressing mechanical issues promptly, and adhering to industry-specific sanitation and safety requirements.
Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:
- Adhere to all safety procedures and policies.
- Ensure machines are maintained to best practice standards including safety (machine safe to use).
- Ensure good food safe practices when performing maintenance. GMP
- Ensure that problem-solving is done to best practice standards in of support higher-level problem-solving efforts, as required.
- Prompt reaction time to breakdowns and other requests.
- Assist with shutdown planning as per shutdown best practice.
- Ensure spares are in place for preventive maintenance activities.
- Proactive risk/hazard identification and mitigation).
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to process teams - operating procedures, fault finding, etc.
- Assisting with installation of new equipment, projects, and improvements.
- Ensuring that administration (CMMS) is attended to timeously and as per best practice.
- Perform mechanical and electrical preventative maintenance and repairs, to production machinery, utilities, and facilities, timeously and according to specification. (e.g., lighting, refrigeration, compressors, pumps, electrical motors, control panels, distribution boards, gearboxes, drives, etc.)
- Perform welding and fabrication activities.
The successful candidate must preferably have the following Experience, Qualifications / Skills:
- Minimum N3 must be a trade tested red seal millwright
- Minimum 5 years working experience as an artisan in a FMCG environment.
- Reading and understanding of electrical drawings.
- Good knowledge of electrical reticulation in a plant environment.
- Good knowledge of equipment used in production lines.
- Ability to do in depth problem solving and fault finding (mechanical and electrical).
- Competent in argon and arc welding.
- Perform milling and turning activities will be advantageous
- Must be self-motivated, innovative, and able to work without supervision.
