Maintenance Technician at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job purpose

• To assist in ensuring plant availability and uptime by attending to equipment breakdown. Initiate and manage continuous improvement projects. To perform various skilled, journey-level tasks in installation, maintenance, testing, and repair of electronic control systems and electrical systems. Electrical Technicians modify electrical prototypes in order to correct operational deviations under the general direction of an Electrical Engineer.

Responsibilities
Provide technical support and assistance to production and engineering

• Provide support to production by attending to breakdowns
• Troubleshooting and fault finding on electrical equipment of breakdowns
• Complete job cards for every job done in accordance to Bridgestone standards
• Participate and carry out root cause analysis for every breakdown and documenting corrective actions
• Order Spares required to fix equipment breakdowns long term
• Comply to all safety regulations as stipulated in the occupational health and safety act
• Develop the technical skills of the electricians by training and mentoring on execution of basic electrical tasks
• Identify when external contractor/vendor is needed, and work in collaboration with contractor/vendor to complete work
• Identify, Initiate and manage small Continuous Improvement projects (Kaizen) and support engineering projects on site

Carry out Preventive and Predictive Maintenance

• Provide preventive and predictive maintenance of the electrical systems
• Suggesting and implement continuous improvement ideas to improve machine reliability
• Complete daily work orders as assigned and update team with daily work reports outlining progress and new issues

Assemble electrical and electronic systems and prototypes according to engineering data and knowledge of electrical principles, using hand tools and measuring instruments

• Follow electrical practice when doing a job, always keeping safety in mind.
• Use Correct Test Equipment

Install and maintain electrical control systems and solid state equipment

• Programming of PLC (Allen Bradley, Siemens), and Drives
• Fault finding on PLC and Drives
• SCADA & Motion

Modify electrical prototypes, parts, assemblies, and systems to correct functional deviations

• When a new system is implemented, it must work correctly with the existing system.
• Update electrical drawings

Analyse and interpret test information to resolve design-related problems

• Get all information before making decisions or alterations

Required Capabilities

• Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrated strong leadership and advanced coaching skills
• Good knowledge of Programmable logic Controllers (PLC)
• Demonstrates the ability to delegate tasks
• Ability to work with teams and lead decision-making processes in a team environment
• Excellent interpersonal communication and listening ability
• Must have a good knowledge and understanding of production technology and tyre manufacturing

Education

• National Diploma or Degree in Electrical Engineering

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the electrical field on rotation machinery.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in the tyre manufacturing and automotive industry will be an advantage.

Leadership Competencies

• Business Acumen
• Shapes business strategy
• Drives accountability and high performance
• Fosters teamwork and collaboration
• Customer focus and Customer Service orientation/mindset
• Nurtures and coaches
• Builds partnerships
• Develops others
• Health and Safety
• Hazard Awareness
• SHE Law and Regulatory Systems
• Emergency Response