Artisan: Mechanical (Facilities Maintenance) at South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

Purpose Statement

• To implement preventative, corrective and breakdown maintenance to the physical assets within scope of responsibility according to the required trade, best engineering practices and other legislative and compliance standards.

Minimum Requirements    
Qualifications 

• National Diploma / Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and  National N Diploma in Fitting and Turning 
• Completed Trade Test Certificate (Mechanical Engineering) is essential.  

Work experiance 

• 3 years’ work experience in Heavy Industry. 

Duties and Responsibilities    
Functional Management

• Assess assigned and new equipment for comprehensiveness of planned and unplanned preventative, corrective and breakdown maintenance aimed at complying to regulations governing engineering equipment, maintaining its condition and functional performance to minimise downtime.
• Execute the chosen preventative corrective and breakdown maintenance approach with its required quality and safety precautions, execution tasks or activities and people and physical resource requirements as an example.  
• Assess assigned tasks for adequacy of problem definition and resolution and initiate further investigative work if required.
• Assess assigned tasks for most efficient and effective method to maintain or restore to functional requirements.
• Assess assigned maintenance and quantify the physical resource requirements regarding tools, equipment, parts and consumables.
• Assess assigned maintenance and quantify people or skill resource requirements necessary and notably where other disciplines are required and escalate any requirements.
• Assess assigned maintenance for safety and health precautions including mechanical equipment isolations, execution method, risk assessment and mitigation as examples.
• Ensure that all allocated tools of trade including but not limited to spanners, screwdrivers, hammers, cell phone, electrical equipment etc, are safe for use and correctly used. Verify that all resource requirements are available for the maintenance execution and if not, redirect to resource providers.
• Verify that all health, safety and environmental precautions have been taken or are in place prior to execution and if not ensure these are implemented.
• Execute required engineering maintenance (i.e. isolate, inspect, overhaul, test, calibrate, acceptance test, repair, install, replace etc.) without supervision to the required trade standards, original equipment manufacturer specifications and other good practices, standards and applicable legislation.
• Continually and comprehensively perform quality control throughout the maintenance procedure and upon completion of trade work.
• Comprehensively record as required the resources consumed, tasks executed and other defined failure and repair data on the facilities management system.

Risk and Compliance Management

• Assist in identifying and adhering to fraud controls, risk prevention principles, sound governance and compliance processes, and tools to identify and manage risks.
• Support and provide evidence to all internal and external audit and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain quality risk management standards in line with ISO and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain and enforce all related Service Level Agreements to minimise business risk and ensure business continuity. 

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships for the purpose of expectations management, knowledge sharing and integration, and to manage the organisation’s reputation.
• Represent and participate in the organisation’s committees and task teams when required.
• Convene and attend meetings and present relevant information to stakeholders when required.
• Ensure efficient communication to all auditors and other finance team members.
• Ensure the provision of excellent customer service.
• Resolve queries and problems within span of control and within agreed time frames.
• Follow up on unresolved queries and complaints where required. 
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders regarding follow-up of information, as required.

Deadline:1st September,2025