Mechanical Team Lead: Curing & Final Inspection at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job purpose

• To manage and provide technical support as required for delivery of all the mechanical equipment required to achieve organisational goals.

Main responsibilities

•  Maintain and reduce machine downtime
• Planned Maintenance and condition monitoring
• Repair breakdowns & do faultfinding.
• Daily walkthrough inspections.
• Make running adjustments.
•   Note items for repair.

Continuous improvement initiatives

•          Attend CFT activities.

Safety

•         Work according to SOP’s.

Housekeeping

•         Apply 3S principles.

Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:

• Agility – to work in a matrix and complex environment where change happens at a rapid pace
• Courage – to share ideas, think out of the box
• Ownership – to see the bigger picture and take ownership by thinking and acting beyond the role

Bridgestone LEADERSHIP ESSENCE

Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:

• Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision:  Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction
• Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others:  Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence
• Promotes and enhances company culture:  Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs
• Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity
• Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence:  Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits.  Understands emotions and their effects
• Intellectually curious in support of learning agility:  Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application
• Embraces and leads change and innovation:  Encourages different and innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities; facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the organization
• Identifies and develops organizational talent:  Attracts high calibre diverse talent , leads and guides others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives through on-going development and collaboration

Required capabilities

• Dependable quality of work to care for and maintain equipment.
• Ensure minimum downtime.

Education:

• N3 Mechanical Engineering
• Qualified Artisan (trade Test at a recognised institution)

Experience:

• 3 – 5 years’ experience in a similar role (Engineering or Manufacturing environment)