Field Service Technician - Mookgophong at FLSmidth

Department

• You will be part of the Service Execution Team who provide sustainable solutions for our customers. By joining this team, you will have a chance to work in an international environment involving different cultures and challenges.

Role Purpose:

• Performs advanced technical service including troubleshooting, in complex and complicated matters, of site equipment, machinery, systems and processes to ensure their continuous functionality.

Accountabilities:

• Safety and Risk Management. Ensure the Identification of Hazards and Risks directly relevant to the Site Conditions and Work Activities. Preparation of a Risk Management Plan to control, monitor and review all identified risk and hazards.
• Awareness of financial implications through ensuring site and commissioning costs are within the estimated value by the control of sub suppliers site costs, managing site instructions and extra claims, and controlling actual service hours within the within the estimated hours.
• Effective leadership through ensuring that site activities are carried out according to the required specifications and standards, and within the allowed time frame, maintaining high erection standards, ensuring parts are available on site as required and ensuring construction plant and labour is sufficient.
• Provide adequate supervision and attend site meetings and provide feedback to management on erection problems and progress.
• To ensure equipment is operational as per design and that equipment is installed as per design, specifications and QCP.
• Assist with Commission equipment to ensure operations are within design specifications and safety standards then handover to client with necessary documentation and provide the necessary close out reports.
• Marketing and sales of own expertise.
• Client relationship and liaison.

Requirements:

• Awareness of financial implications through ensuring site costs are within the estimated value by the Control of labour costs, sub suppliers site costs, managing site instructions and extra claims.
• To ensure equipment is maintained as per OEM specification and QCP.
• Assist with Commission equipment after outages to ensure operations are within design specifications and safety standards then handover to client with necessary documentation and provide the necessary close out reports.
• Evaluates machinery, equipment, systems and processes performance to make decisions regarding the need for operational maintenance in a technically highly sophisticated environment.
• Troubleshoots operational maintenance problems of machinery, equipment, systems and processes to secure continuous proper functionality.
• Makes suggestions for upgrades of machinery, equipment, systems and processes to ensure continuous functionality.
• Performs tests of machinery, equipment, systems and processes to ensure their functionality.
• Performs inspections/service assignments of materials/processes to assess the need for maintena
• Be willing to perform work extended working hours.
• Be willing to travel locally and international.
• Implementation and management of CheckProof App.

What you bring

• Trade certificate Mechanical, engineering Diploma/Degree in Mechanical Engineering/Project management.
• Experience in maintenance and operation of mining plant. Thorough knowledge of equipment, products, site operations and maintenance especially mills, crusher, thickeners, pumps, cyclones and floatation cells.
• 10 years’ working experience in the engineering discipline.
• At least five years of supervisory experience and interaction with client.
• Strong commercial and financial understanding.
• Good communication skills and ability to liase with clients and internal stakeholders in different levels.
• Computer literate in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook and MS Projects.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Maintenance operations. Managing ongoing maintenance operations, ensuring optimization of team performance in a dynamic environment.
• Technical expertise. Applies specialized technical knowledge, skills and judgement to improve overall engineering processes.
• Conflict resolution and management.
• Time management and priority setting.
• Process management and facilitation.
• Stakeholder management.
• Risk assessment and management.
• Strong attention to detail