Mechanical Fitter (Shutdowns)

Bearings, gearboxes, pumps and lathes: this cement plant in Fourways needs your hands on them. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

This post is Fourways-based, with most of your time spent at a cement plant. Overtime comes up in peak season and is paid.

• Maintain hydraulic and pneumatic systems on production lines
• Program and run CNC machines from engineering drawings
• Align shafts with a laser alignment tool after every drive change
• Machine shafts, bushes and keyways on a lathe and milling machine
• Replace bearings, seals and couplings on pumps, gearboxes and motors

• Trade test as Fitter and Turner, Fitter, Millwright or Toolmaker
• Willing to work shifts, standby and weekend shutdowns
• N2 or N3 engineering subjects
• You read engineering drawings and measure with micrometers and verniers

• CNC programming experience
• Forklift licence for moving heavy parts
• Millwright trade test, since it covers both mechanical and electrical

• Tool allowance
• Chance to study further toward a technician diploma
• Paid overtime on shutdowns
• Shift and standby allowances

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