Fitter - Cape Town at Nestle

Position Summary

With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé didn’t become the world’s leading food and beverages brand by chance. Perfection is at the heart of what we do, and our people are always looking for the next big idea to cement our status. We are now looking for a Fitter and Turner to be based in East London Factory. 

In this role you will be responsible to installs and maintains engineering equipment in first class working condition. Ensure efficient safe operation of machinery by repairing and adjusting equipment within the allowable tolerances. All work carried out on premises must conform to legal, statutory, and internal standards if more stringent in all areas of engineering, quality, and safety, health & environment. Fault finding and attending to breakdowns. Complete the necessary administrative tasks for AMM, SHE, PMO`s. To be actively involved with new project installations and Total Performance Management (TPM). 

A day in the life of a Fitter & Turner:

• Carry out the planned maintenance required on plant.  
• Incumbent must be pro-active to prevent breakdowns in respective departments. 
• Initiative driven to continuously improve equipment performance and reliability of equipment’s. 
• Install, service, repair and maintain existing and new equipment.  
• Follow up and recommend actions to overcome and improve problems encountered.  
• Attend to mechanical faults and breakdowns in all areas of the factory.  
• Analyzing, investigating, and eliminating recurrent faults.  
• Improve on functional maintenance, cleaning, and reliability of equipment.  
• Manage minor projects and contractors. 
• Plant knowledge and able to operate all industrial services equipment. 
• Repairs must be carried out quickly (first time right) and efficiently.  
• Maintain high standards of work.  
• Ensure machine reliability and availability for production targets to be met.  
• Undertakes to work shifts and overtime as per company requirements. 
• Lockout & permit procedure to be always used when any person could be exposed to danger.  
• Ensure any dangerous conditions must be made safe immediately.  
• To correct errors on drawings and update drawings. 
• Complete the necessary administrative tasks for AMM, SHE, PMO`s. 
• Actively involved in projects and TPM. 
• Interact and collaborate with production teams.  
• Interact with suppliers and contractors. 

What will make you successful? 

• Matric and N3 Trade related qualification essential. 
• Apprenticeship and qualified with a Trade Test Certificate as Fitter & Turner. 
• Minimum of at least 2-3 years’ experience in mechanical field after passing Fitter & Turner trade test. 
• Manufacturing and Industrial services background. 
• Computer literate (Excel, Word, PowerPoint SAP, and AMM). 
• Pneumatic and Hydraulic experience 
• Welding Experience. 
• Pipe fitting experience. 
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills. 
• In depth knowledge of maintenance practices. 
• Preferably from East London and surrounding areas