Durban: Electrician (Plant/Manufacturing) posted by Abantu Staffing Solutions

About the Role

To conduct electrical maintenance and repairs on plant and equipment in a safe and efficient manner, reporting to the Maintenance Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Receive Maintenance Schedules, plan and execute before they expire.
• Interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
• 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).
• All Scheduled Maintenance shall be recorded (Opened and Closed) to the Maintenance Connection system IN TIME to aid in pro-longing equipment life and prevent Unplanned Maintenance.
• Housekeeping: Keep Workshop and work area clean and maintain or improve on 5S standards.
• Perform Plant start-ups. 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.

Requirements

• Grade 12 with mathematics and science.
• Section 13 Red Seal Electrician Trade Test.
• 5+ years experience post Trade Test.
• N4 electrical trade theory, with subjects specific to electrical engineering (advantageous).
• Wiremans license (advantageous).
• Experience in heavy industry (advantageous).

Qualifications

No formal education or certifications mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Salary information not provided.

Basic Mechanical and Fabrication

• Mechanically cut, drill and punch fabrication materials, sharpen drill bits, basic mechanical fault finding with regards to Pneumatics and Hydraulics and basic repairs and installation to such related components.

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.

Material Handling

• Sling loads.
• Operating cranes/hoists.
• Operating forklifts.

Engineering Projects

### Project Initiation:

• Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control and work as a valuable team member.
• Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project and monitor and control actual cost against budget.

### Project Planning:

• Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.
• Monitor, evaluate and communicate project schedules.

### Project Management:

• Contribute to the management of project risk within own field of expertise.
• Supervise a project team of a technical project if and when requested.
• Provide assistance within the project in the field of your expertise.

### Project Administration:

• Support project meetings and workshops when required to do so.

Continuous Improvement

• Participate in continuous improvement drives.

Reporting

• Complete Maintenance Time Sheets (nature of work, time spent to repair, and material/spares used).
• Participate in continuous improvement drives.

Competencies

### Computer:

• MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Operating computer systems

### Engineering Drawings:

• Draw and interpret simple engineering drawings.
• Read, interpret and produce basic engineering drawings.
• Mark off basic regular engineering shapes

### Tools and Measuring Instruments:

• Select, use and care for engineering measuring equipment
• Select, use and care for electrical measuring instruments
• Select, use and care for engineering power tools
• Select, use and care for marking off/out equipment: routine shapes
• IATF requirements

### Electrical:

• Understand fundamentals of electricity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the uses and safety aspect associated with flammable energy sources.
• Understand basic electronic theory and components.
• Understand basic electrical and mechanical engineering principles.

### Instrumentation:

• Demonstrate an understanding of basic programmable logic controllers
• Demonstrate an understanding of fault finding techniques on field instrumentation
• Demonstrate an understanding of process communication systems.