Factory Plant Maintenance Electrician

SUMMARY:
Are you a certified and skilled safety-conscious Electrician with proven experience maintaining industrial manufacturing equipment and electrical systems?

Our client has a manufacturing plant in Cape Town Northern Suburbs, and requires your ability to minimise downtime of machines through proactive maintenance and swift response to electrical issues.

POSITION INFO:
REQUIREMENTS

• Matric, and Electrician Trade Certificate
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience
• Proficiency in English and Afrikaans
• Computer literate in MS Outlook, Excel and Word
• Health and safety qualifications advantageous

• Maintenance planning on breakdowns and schedule weekly and monthly services
• Plan and update scheduled maintenance dates with maintenance teams
• Identify additional maintenance checks and procedures and improve where required
• Assist with PLC, HMI and VSD programming and backups
• Assist with networking and integration
• Responsible for remote support on breakdowns
• Responsible for installation, diagnostics and repair of all hardware-related components
• Aiding in the design and functioning of new machines and the maintenance thereof
• Assist in the coordination of assigned machinery maintenance activities, including preparation of the technical portions of Procurement documents
• Responsible for all electrical maintenance check sheets of assigned machines
• Ensure outputs continually satisfy design goals, including functionality, reliability, quality, budget, and timeline
• Note changes and updates on electrical schematics, P&ID and SLD for distribution boards and discuss with Management
• Provide reasons for all variances when reporting and recommend corrective measures for implementation where negative variances are indicated
• Attend frequent, formal maintenance meetings with electrical/design/mechanical maintenance teams