Plant Millwright

SUMMARY:
This national Automotive manufacturing concern, currently seeks a qualified Millwright to conduct mechanical and electrical maintenance and repairs on plant and equipment in a safe and efficient manner.

POSITION INFO:
Minimum Job Requirements:

• Matric with Mathematics and Science.
• Section 13 Red Seal Millwright Trade Test.
• N4 Electro-Mechanical Certificate, Siemens PLC.
• Min 5 years’ experience in heavy industry.
• Min 5 years’ experience in Non-Woven Textile industry.

• Maintenance Process (Schedules Preventative Maintenance):
  • Receive maintenance schedules, plan and execute before they expire. Interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
  • Inspect the tooling and determine spares requirements.
  • Generate job requisitions for scheduled maintenance work.
  • Conduct preventive maintenance activities.
  • Perform change overs in the production environment.
  • Stock take integrity checks.
  • All scheduled maintenance shall be recorded.
  • Perform plant start-ups, timeously.
  • Maintain good housekeeping.
• Maintenance Process (Breakdown):
  • Attend to machine breakdowns of a mechanical/electrical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control.
  • Update the responsible person on progress of repairs.
  • Escalate a problem/breakdown to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully.
  • All breakdowns shall be recorded to aid in determining root causes.
• Mechanical Maintenance:
  • Perform routine maintenance.
  • Align machines and equipment.
  • Diagnose and repair faults on equipment and machinery during production.
  • Commission and refurbish machines and equipment.
  • Operate and monitor:
    • drilling machine to produce simple components
    • lathe to produce simple components
    • milling machine to produce simple components
    • surface grinding machine to produce simple components.
  • Operate the Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) to seal moulds.
  • Perform basic and MIG/TIG welding of metals.
  • Maintain mechanical equipment.
• Electrical Maintenance :
  • Design and construct Single/Three Phase Circuits.
  • Design and install Electrical Wire Ways.
  • Construct, commission and do fault tracing on low voltage reticulation networks (220Vac, 110Vac, 24DC).
  • Install or replace and commission electrical equipment.
  • Wire and commission three phase electrical circuits.
  • Test and inspect a three-phase industrial/commercial installation.
  • Inspect and maintain electrical equipment.
  • Replace electrical equipment (electrical cables; faulty components in a distribution board; three-phase electrical motor between 5,5 kW and 75 kW).
  • Fault find and repair (Domestic appliances; single phase alternating current (AC) systems; three phase voltage electrical circuits).
  • Disconnect and connect electric motors.
  • Handle and care for electrical earthing gear and related equipment.
  • Joint low voltage cables.
  • Troubleshoot on programmable logic controllers.
• Fabrication:
  • Mechanically cut, drill, punch and assemble fabrication materials using powered machinery.
  • Cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process (manual cutting).
  • Join metals using the resistance welding process.
  • Weld workpiece (oxy-acetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding).
  • Remove metals using oxy-fuel and air-carbon arc gouging processes.
• Instrumentation Maintenance:
  • Construct basic electronic circuits.
  • Install instrument impulse lines.
  • Maintain instrumentation equipment (Flow; Level; Pressure; Temperature; Intrinsically safe apparatus).
  • Carry out soldering and de-soldering procedures.
• Maintenance Process (Post Maintenance):
  • Test and commission machinery or equipment prior to handover.
  • Complete the Planned Maintenance Schedule-Maintenance Connection.
  • Identify any other work required (including additional spares) and communicate to the Planner/Buyer.
  • Clean up after completion of job and inform the responsible person that the maintenance has been completed to the required standard.
• Material Handling:
  • Handle sling loads, operate cranes/hoists, and operate forklifts.
• Engineering Projects - Project Initiation:
  • Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control and work as a valuable team member.
  • Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project and monitor and control actual cost against budget.
• Project Planning, Management, Administration:
  • Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.
  • Monitor, evaluate and communicate project schedules.
  • Contribute to the management of project risk within own field of expertise.
  • Supervise a Project team of a technical project when requested.
  • Provide assistance within the project in the field of expertise.
  • Support project meetings and workshops when required.