Job Description
The purpose of the role is to provide leadership in implementation of maintenance best practices, ensuring that subordinates understand and carry out given instructions, perform their task safely and effectively, maintaining discipline to timeously deliver the right level of service to customers
Qualifications:
- N3 - N4 Mechanical Engineering Certificate, Fitting & Machining and Mechanotechnology
- Engineering Trade Certificate – Fitter Machinist/Turner (Section 13 or Section 26(D)(4)
- Record of completion of apprenticeship/learnership
- Minimum 5 years’ work experience post completion of apprenticeship/learnership training
- Minimum 3 consecutive years of experience in a supervisory/ management position in a production plant or mechanical engineering workshop
- Valid motor vehicle driver license, minimum Code 08 (EB)
- Occupational health fitness
Technical Skills & Experience:
- Computer literacy
- Job planning and reporting in writing
- Good verbal and written communication skills, in English
- Ability to read and interpret mechanical engineering drawings, manuals, and instructions
- Proficient in using precision measuring instruments
- Ability to assess and report on condition of machine components & plant equipment
- Proficiency in operating a wide range of machineshop equipment, lathe, milling machine, surface grinder, radial-arm drilling machine
- Experience in implementing Health, Safety and Environmental standards and procedures
Person Specification:
- Self-directed individual that can work with minimum supervision
- Time management and ability to meet deadlines
- Willingness to adopt organisational values and promote a healthy organisational culture
- High level of personal integrity and ethical conduct
- Ability to function within a multi-cultural environment of a multi-national organisation
- Willing to travel nationally and internationally for job assignments
- Willing and available to attend to job call-outs outside normal working times
- Ability to represent the organization in job related communications through verbal and written form