Millwright (Production Plant)

You'll keep machines turning and parts in spec at the cement plant in East London. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

Home base is a cement plant on the East London side of Eastern Cape.

• Replace bearings, seals and couplings on pumps, gearboxes and motors
• Help with electrical fault-finding on motors and sensors as a millwright
• Maintain hydraulic and pneumatic systems on production lines
• Machine shafts, bushes and keyways on a lathe and milling machine
• Align shafts with a laser alignment tool after every drive change

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

• Forklift licence for moving heavy parts
• Hydraulic and pneumatic courses
• CNC programming experience

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

• 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.