Job title: Robot Specialist
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Salary type: Annual
Salary: Negotiable
Location: Rosslyn
Job published: 04 Sep 2026
Job ID: 46156
Contact name: Erwin Maderthaner
Phone number: +27.12.8168738

Job Description

Purpose of the job
Perform general electrical maintenance, preventative maintenance as well as fault finding maintenance on industrial robots, project installations and robotic applications. 
 
Key Performance Areas
  • Repair and maintain robots to ensure customer and company quality standards are met
  • Do fault finding and preventative maintenance as per maintenance schedule and according to job cards and relevant work instruction
  • Compile feedback on time sheets to ensure accurate repair data
  • Ensure that company procedures, works instructions and quality systems are adhered to at all times
  • Participate actively in the departmental M2S as per company requirement
  • Ensure that work practises comply with the company SHEQ procedures and works instructions
Knowledge and Skills required
  • Technical techniques
  • Fault finding and robots repair and maintenance KUKA and ABB
  • Manufacturing processes BMW V8
  • Basic understanding of quality systems
  • Fault finding and maintenance presses
  • Problem solving
  • Communication
  • Read electronic drawings
Minimum Requirements
  • NQF 6
  • Educational qualification: Qualified Electrician/ Millwright/ Mechatronics/Electrical/Electronics/Instrumentation Engineering
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Robot Technician within an Automotive environment
  • Extensive working knowledge of ABB and Kuka Robots