Maintenance Technician (Electro-Mechanical)

Bearings, gearboxes, pumps and lathes: this cement plant in Vereeniging needs your hands on them. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

This post is in Vereeniging (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Follow the lockout procedure before any work on machinery
• Respond to breakdowns and get the line running again safely
• Record work and spares used on the job card or CMMS
• Replace bearings, seals and couplings on pumps, gearboxes and motors
• Build and repair press tools, jigs and moulds
• Machine shafts, bushes and keyways on a lathe and milling machine

• Basic understanding of the General Machinery Regulations
• Willing to work shifts, standby and weekend shutdowns
• N2 or N3 engineering subjects
• Own basic hand tools, or willing to build up a set
• You read engineering drawings and measure with micrometers and verniers
• Trade test as Fitter and Turner, Fitter, Millwright or Toolmaker

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

• Write your trade and trade test year first, then the machines you know, like "Filling lines, pumps, gearboxes".
• If you can machine parts as well as fit them, say so clearly. Many factories want both skills in one person.