Maintenance Fitter (Food Factory)

You'll keep machines turning and parts in spec at the beverage bottling plant in Gqeberha. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is Gqeberha-based, with most of your time spent at a beverage bottling plant. Weekend work is on a roster, so you won't be on every weekend.

• Build and repair press tools, jigs and moulds
• Inspect and adjust conveyors, chains and sprockets
• Program and run CNC machines from engineering drawings
• Record work and spares used on the job card or CMMS
• Help with electrical fault-finding on motors and sensors as a millwright

• Trade test as Fitter and Turner, Fitter, Millwright or Toolmaker
• N2 or N3 engineering subjects
• Willing to work shifts, standby and weekend shutdowns
• At least 2 years as a qualified artisan in a factory or workshop

• Millwright trade test, since it covers both mechanical and electrical
• Hydraulic and pneumatic courses
• Forklift licence for moving heavy parts

• Shift and standby allowances
• Chance to study further toward a technician diploma
• Tool allowance

• Expect a practical test. Measure twice and work cleanly, because the assessor watches your habits as much as the result.
• Write your trade and trade test year first, then the machines you know, like "Filling lines, pumps, gearboxes".