Durban: Millwright posted by Profile Personnel

About the Role

Profile Personnel, a well-established automotive company based in Durban, is seeking a qualified and experienced Millwright to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting mechanical and electrical maintenance and repairs on plant and equipment in a safe and efficient manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Receive Maintenance Schedules, plan and execute before they expire.
• Inspect the tooling and determine spares and consumables requirements.
• Generate Job Requisitions for scheduled maintenance work (type of repair or maintenance, spares, quantities, time, etc.).
• Transport tools, equipment and spares to the work site.
• Isolate equipment, perform lockouts, complete the LOTO register and make the work area safe.
• Complete the Contractors Permit to Work prior to contractors commencing with work on site.
• Conduct Preventive Maintenance activities.
• Perform change overs in the production environment.
• Count stock for a Stock Take integrity check (check spares condition during the count).
• Record all Scheduled Maintenance to the Maintenance Connection system IN TIME.
• Maintain 5S standards in Workshop and work area.
• Plan plant start-up well in advance of planned production starting time to ensure the plant is ready for production.
• Track and record personal daily hours to ensure the KPA Artisan Utilization of ? 75% is achieved.
• Attend to machine breakdowns of a mechanical/electrical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control.
• Update the responsible person on progress of repairs.
• Escalate a problem/breakdown to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully.
• Record all Breakdowns to the Maintenance Connection system to aid in determining the root cause and to accurately calculate KPI and artisan utilisation data.

Requirements

• Grade 12 with mathematics and science.
• Section 13 red seal Millwright trade test.
• N4 electro-mechanical certificate.
• 5 years experience in heavy industry.

Qualifications

No formal education or certifications mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Salary information not provided.

Fabrication

• Mechanically cut, drill, punch and assemble fabrication materials using powered machinery.
• Cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process (manual cutting).
• Join metals using the resistance welding process.
• Weld workpiece (oxy-acetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding).
• Remove metals using oxy-fuel and air-carbon arc gouging processes.

Instrumentation Maintenance

• Construct Basic Electronic Circuits.
• Install Instrument impulse lines.
• Maintain instrumentation equipment (Flow; Level; Pressure; Temperature; Intrinsically safe apparatus).
• Carry out soldering and de-soldering procedures.

Mechanical Maintenance

• Perform routine maintenance.
• Align machines and equipment.
• Diagnose and repair faults on equipment and machinery during production/operation.
• Commission and refurbish machines / equipment.
• Operate and monitor a drilling machine to produce simple components.
• Operate and monitor a lathe to produce simple components.
• Operate and monitor a milling machine to produce simple components.
• Operate and monitor a surface grinding machine to produce simple components.
• Operate the Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) to seal moulds.
• Perform basic and MIG/TIG welding of metals.
• Grind tools and drill bits.
• Maintain mechanical equipment (indirect and direct drives, pipe systems, static seals, bearings, brakes and clutches, direct drives, dynamic seals, heat exchangers and pressure vessels, lubricating systems, pumps, conveyor systems, compressors, fluid power/pneumatic/vacuum systems, gearboxes, safety valves).

Electrical Maintenance

• Design and construct Single/Three Phase Circuits.
• Design and Install Electrical Wire Ways.
• Construct, commission and do fault tracing on low voltage reticulation networks (220Vac, 110Vac, 24DC).
• Install or replace and commission electrical equipment (lighting systems; electrical cables and conductors; earth leakage unit in a low voltage circuit; metering units or measuring instruments; low and medium voltage transformers; batteries; electrical wire ways; direct current (DC) machines three phase AC electrical circuits, machines and control gear).
• Wire and commission three phase electrical circuits.
• Inspect and clean (electrical machines; enhanced safety apparatus; electrical motors).
• Test and inspect a three-phase industrial/commercial installation.
• Inspect and maintain electrical equipment (electrical distribution boards, panels and enclosures; intrinsically safe apparatus; lighting systems; high mast lighting structures; batteries and battery rooms (UPS, Generator); low voltage switchgear; unit protection devices on transformers; AC or DC drive units; (DC) machines; electric power tools; three phase AC machines and control gear; AC motor control gear).
• Replace electrical equipment (electrical cables; faulty components in a distribution board; three-phase electrical motor between 5,5 kW and 75 kW).
• Fault find and repair (Single phase alternating current (AC) systems