Technical Assistant II (P12) (Facilities Management: Campus Facilities Management: UJ Island) (Re-advert) at University of Johannesburg

Job Description:

• To assist in the planning and scheduling of the installation, care, and repair of facilities and equipment. Ensures that facilities, layout, and machinery used operate to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes total preventative maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and pneumatic equipment. To alternate on entry into the island, including exit, game drives, and normal day-to-day transportation as and when required at the UJ Island. The incumbent will be required to help with external guests, general maintenance, island logistics, and support work. This is a full-time live-in position at the UJ island.

Responsibilities:
 
Maintenance and Technical Support at the UJ Island:
 

• Assists in planning and scheduling of installation, care, and repair of facilities and equipment.
• Performs routine facility and equipment maintenance.
• Conduct routine inspections and preventative maintenance activities to ensure optimal equipment performance.
• Assist in monitoring and repair of facility systems and technical devices directly supporting test and building operations.
• Assists with general office work related to the work request system.
• Participates in preventative maintenance, troubleshoots, dismantles, repairs, and reassembles complex equipment.
• Maintains appropriate service and repair records.
• Duties also include creating detailed technical specifications and documentation.
• Develop and configure workstations again based on the requirement.
• Performs routine daily inspections of assigned buildings and spaces.
• Follows the Facilities Work Request System.
• Completes all documentation for work performed in a timely manner.
• Oversees and performs the duties associated with events, including executing the set-up plan in a timely manner, breakdowns are completed on schedule with spaces returned to normal state.

General Support tasks at the UJ Island:

• Audit and maintain spare parts inventory and manage documentation around instruments.
• Assist and serve as backup to other Facilities employees.
• Respond to emergency call-ins.
• Serve in the rotation of weekend on-call personnel.
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
• Transport visitors.
• Welcomes guests and carries their luggage to and from their rooms.
• Attending to problems arising at night; if necessary, transferring guests into a different room
• If there is a fire or emergency, make sure that guests are evacuated safely.
• Attend to game management
• Collect grass, rubble, and tree trimmings, which must be disposed of at the disposal area on the UJ island.
• Use safety equipment and protective clothing as prescribed.
• Conduct regular inspections on vehicles as prescribed and immediately report defects.
• Assist with transporting machines or any other equipment to and from the island.
• Assist with any other general duties and work required on the island.
• Maintain basic health, safety, and environmental measures in the workplace.

Customer Service:

• Provide customer service and information on different maintenance activities

Occupational Health & Safety:

• Ensure proper care in the use and maintenance of equipment and supplies.
• Assist in hazardous waste management.
• Ensure compliance with safety regulatory standards and instrumentation work.
• Promote continuous improvement of workplace safety and environmental practices

Minimum requirements

• Grade 12 (NQF 4) qualification
• Three (3) years’ experience in the field of work includes a hospitality environment.
• A valid Code 10 driver’s license with a PDP for people and goods.
• A valid boat driver's license. (Skipper license)
• Certificate in Plumbing, Welding or Mechanical Engineering.

Competencies and Behavioural Attributes:

• Motivated team player with desire to share creative solutions and clinical simulation best practice.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills with the ability to balance multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good technical background.
• Plumbing.
• Ability to continually perform physical work.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Work with initiative and creativity.
• Work cooperatively in a teamwork environment.
• Be reliable, responsible, and punctual.
• Good Planning and organising.
• Ability to work independently and under supervision.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety within the field of work.
• Cleanliness.
• Ability to swim.
• Good vision.
• Physical agility.

Recommendations:

• Knowledge of Health and Safety
• Willingness to undergo further skills training.
• Willingness to work overtime and do standby as and when required.
• Pneumatic experience

Working Conditions:

• The post entails moderate lifting, carrying, and cleaning of equipment.
• Involves sitting and standing for prolonged periods.
• Involves working with technology, including electrical power and compressed gases
• The work requires some physical effort: physical work is walking over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces, bending, crouching, slouching, stretching, getting things, and lifting of moderately heavy items.
• Traveling daily, driving the boat to and from the UJ island.

Deadline:8th August,2025