Hydraulics Artisan at Mondi Group

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An exciting opportunity awaits you at Mondi South Africa. The Central Maintenance team is searching for a Hydraulics Artisan  to join our business located in Richards Bay, KZN.

The Hydraulics artisan role shall provide full support to the hydraulics supervisor, within a team environment, with plant maintenance execution of the short- and medium-term horizons. Further, the role shall support technical decision making on a day-day basis with the intention of ensuring maximum availability and reliability of operating assets for the production teams in the short and mid-term. Finally, the hydraulics artisan shall ensure the execution of work during shutdowns.

Profile Requirements:

• Minimum NQF level 4.
• Preferably a qualified Millwright, other trades will be considered. 
• Code 08 / EB license

Experience:

• A requirement of 3 to 5 years within the maintenance / engineering function in a heavy-industry environment – e.g. pulp and paper, steel processing, mining, etc.
• A requirement of 3 to 5 years in the role of advanced hydraulics maintenance and troubleshooting.

Experience in the application of the following core engineering processes:

• Maintenance quality management.
• Shutdown and task execution.
• Contractor supervision.
• Fault-finding and troubleshooting (application of problem-solving techniques & tools).
• Root Cause Analysis participation

Key Performance Areas:

• Maintaining and Troubleshooting Hydraulic systems. With the objective to provide reliable hydraulic equipment/systems.
• The execution of more complex hydraulics maintenance activities, including the supervision of contractors required for these activities.
• The role shall serve as the first call on break-down events to support the problem diagnosis and execute the appropriate corrective action.
• Troubleshooting – understand, utilize, and use technical drawings, P&ID’s, etc. for fault finding on plant problems.
• Ensure adherence to engineering standards by the team during maintenance execution.
• The role shall provide support to the planning department on routine maintenance and shut-down activities, from a technical perspective.
• Execution of repairable and non-repairable spare parts as per the RACI or responsibility definition of the process procedure, such as quality check activities, etc.
• Analysis of actions arising from equipment troubleshooting (including scoping of work). Collaboration with Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation team from this perspective.
• Highlight to the hydraulics supervisor, any operational risk arising from equipment defects and faults (‘mill equipment risk list’).
• Identify and communicate small-scope improvement projects and initiatives from a technical design perspective with the intention on improving service life.
• Auditing of the quality of service received by the Central Maintenance Services department.
• Maintaining the required condition of plant and equipment.
• Maintain plant technical documentation as per the RACI or responsibility definition of the process procedure.
• Communicate foreseeable spend within the assigned cost centre.
• Support the Hydraulics Supervisor, in ensuring compliance to all mill asset care procedures (with specific reference to Work Order, Technical Change and Shutdown Management processes).
• Support the mill wide departments during appropriate technical processes (for example, RCFA investigations).
• Support the mill wide departments, through the identification of improvement potential and sources of loss.
• Support the mill wide departments, in the development of applicable Engineering Standards for the mill.