Toolmaker (Press Tools & Moulds)

Planned maintenance and breakdown work on shift at the sugar mill in Stellenbosch. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is in Stellenbosch (Western Cape). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Inspect and adjust conveyors, chains and sprockets
• Program and run CNC machines from engineering drawings
• Align shafts with a laser alignment tool after every drive change
• Build and repair press tools, jigs and moulds
• Replace bearings, seals and couplings on pumps, gearboxes and motors

• At least 2 years as a qualified artisan in a factory or workshop
• Own basic hand tools, or willing to build up a set
• You read engineering drawings and measure with micrometers and verniers
• N2 or N3 engineering subjects

• Tool allowance
• Paid overtime on shutdowns
• Shift and standby allowances

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