Job Purpose

The job holder will be responsible for maintaining all mechanical parts of machines and equipment, optimize availability and reliability of equipment and give assistance with the co-ordination of line activities to meet the production plan.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Area 1:  Undertake preventive maintenance.

• Perform all mechanical repairs as required to ensure the plant is operating optimally.
• Record and provide feedback on the causes and corrective action for all breakdown including analysing and interpreting the breakdown trends and history.
• Ensure that all specified preventive maintenance tasks are performed, including cleaning, inspections, lubrication and scheduled maintenance.
• Give feedback regarding the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance program in order to improve the effectiveness.
• Conduct regular (scheduled and un-scheduled) inspection of all equipment and initiate work orders if necessary.
• Assist in upgrading of plant mechanical parts, drawing machine parts and upgrade documentation of machine manuals.
• Adhere to all relevant policies, procedures, work instruction and SOPs at all times including risk, health and safety procedures and statutory requirements.

Area 2:  Health & Safety

• Identify, communicate all risks and implement measures to prevent injuries and ensure the health and safety of employees by conducting hazard analysis on an on-going basis.

Area 3:  Job cards and Reports

• Responsible for correct completion of job tags & cards, and daily shift report
• Machine conditions and evaluation reports

Area 4: Inspection of equipment’s 

• Conduct regular (scheduled and un-scheduled) inspection of all equipment and initiate workorders if necessary.