Millwright - Profile Personnel - ref. k6046423

A very well established client in the Automotive industry, located in Gqeberha, is looking for a Millwright to join their team.

Job Purpose:

• To conduct mechanical and electrical maintenance and repairs on plant and equipment in a safe and efficient manner

Requirements for Applicants:

• Must be in possession of a Grade 12 with Mathematics and Science
• Section 13 Red Seal Millwright trade tested
• N4 electro-mechanical certificate
• 5 Years’ experience in heave industry.
• Siemens PLC
• Experience with moulds, carousels and gears

Key Performance Areas:

• Receive Maintenance Schedules, 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
• 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 the problem to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully
• Capture all information related to the breakdown to aid in determining the root cause.
• 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
• 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)
• Mechanically cut, drill, punch and assemble fabrication materials using powered machinery
• Cut materials using the oxy-fuel gas cutting process (manual cutting)
• Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control and work as a valuable team member

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not receive a response within 14 days please consider your application unsuccessful. We will keep your CV on our database for any other relevant roles that may arise.