Turner / Machinist

Recruiter:

Chainlink SA

Job Ref:

77377906

Date posted:

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Job Purpose:
To manufacture and assemble components, as per drawing or sample

Skills Requirements:
• Grade 12 (Matric)/N3 or equivalent
• Minimum of 4 years manufacturing experience
• Qualified Artisan / Trade Test
• Knowledge of powerpacks, pumps and cylinders
• Fault finding
• Fabrication
• Able to read Hydraulic schematics
• Abel to operate conventional machinery to produce parts at high quality standards.
• Familiar with ISO 9001:2015 standards
• Be able to use a variety of measuring instruments

Job Description
• Assist the Factory and salespersons with assessments for quotation purposes.
• Bending of hydraulic tubing
• General fitting
• Dis-assembly and assembly of pumps requiring adjustment and setting. Including troubleshooting without supervision.

Function.
• To strip and repair cylinders
• Preparation of parts for spray painting and paint parts
• Hand welding by mechanically fed electrodes
• Preliminary welding for positioning of jobs prior to welding, riveting or bolting up
• Machining of different hydraulic components according to drawing specifications, following the job card as procedure for manufacturing
• Assist in the stripping off and assessments of repairs for quotations purposes
• Repetition drill sharpening by machine/hand
• Drilling of holes
• Tapping and re-tapping of holes
• Deburring of all manufactured parts
• Deburring by hand and/or by grinding and/or portable power tools
• Sand blasting
• Metal cleaning by degreasing
• Operating hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine where the operator is not
required to grind to marks and/or gauges and/or sizes and/or templates
• Rethreading and/or re-tapping and/or reclaiming of nuts and/or bolts
• Check, prepare and mark own components
• Assembling of jobs as per drawing / circuit diagram
• Operate conventional milling machine and Lathe machine

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