Electrician - Pretoria West at RCL Foods

• RCL FOODS is seeking Electrician to join our Baking  Division. The role will be based in Pretoria West   and reports to the Maintenance Manager.  

Purpose of the role: 

• Responsible for maintaining or constructing industrial machinery.

Minimum Requirements    

• Matric
• Must have an N3, in Electrical engineering
• Qualified Electrician

Duties & Responsibilities    

• To ensure efficient and cost-effective maintenance to all Electrical equipment.
• To be pro-active in identifying potential faults/breakdowns before they occur.
• To ensure that all breakdowns are attended to in a cost-effective/ fastest manner possible
• To ensure the continued good conditioning of all equipment in the Production Facilities.
• To ensure that the necessary spare equipment/ instruments are maintained in the maintenance D-store.
• To ensure and prevent come back or repeated failures and breakdowns.
• To implement preventative actions and maintenance to reduce breakdowns.
• Installation, Maintenance, Service and repair of electrical/ Electronic networks and equipment within the production facilities.
• Advanced Fault finding on electrical circuits.
• Ensuring machine availability through minimizing of downtime.
• Attending to breakdowns, fault findings and rectification.
• Planned and preventative maintenance on all electrical installations/ equipment.
• To ensure that all MV and LV Substations are maintained and kept in order with SANS standards.
• To ensure that SANS 10142 wiring regulations are adhered to always.
• To ensure that SANS 10108 hazardous location regulations are adhered to always.
• To ensure compliance to the work permit/ lockout system in use at RCL Foods Consumer division.
• To ensure compliance to all safety policies of the company and safety regulations.
• To ensure all Safety devices on all equipment to be in place and working 100% always.
• Knowledge and compliance with SHEQ legislation and regulations.
• Adhere to food safety, occupational health and safety, environmental and other risk management requirements standards as per OHS Act, COID Act.
• To ensure efficient and cost-effective maintenance to all instrumentation equipment.
• To be pro-active in identifying potential faults/ breakdowns before they occur.
• To ensure that all breakdowns are attended to in a cost-effective/ fastest manner possible.
• To ensure the continued good condition of all equipment.
• To ensure that the necessary spare instruments are maintained in the maintenance D-store.
• HMI’s, PLCs and SCADA Systems:
• To ensure efficient and cost-effective maintenance to all soft PLC hardware.
• Must be capable to program small changes and requirements to PLCs and SCADA system.
• To be pro-active in identifying potential faults/ breakdowns before they occur.
• To ensure that all breakdowns are attended to in a cost-effective/ fastest manner possible.
• To ensure the continued good condition of all equipment.
• To ensure that all new small-scale projects/ changes and modifications are implemented and completed to the requirements of the Plant Engineer/ Engineering Manager.
• Implement projects in the shortest period without financial loss to the company.
• Ensure successful implementation of small scale projects, and testing after implementation compulsory.
• Ensure correct devices, machinery and software applications are installed for the correct processes.

Deadline:9th October,2026