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.
