Technician - Slurry at PPC Africa

Job Advert Summary    

• Undertakes planned and unplanned maintenance work on plant equipment, carries out maintenance schedules, carries out standby duties, conducts risk assessments for work to be carried out, ensures the  K.P.Is are met. 

Minimum Requirements    

• Relevant Trade Test
• National Certificate in Instrumentation and Control
• 2 years in Heavy industry or mining environment
• Driver’s License.
• EMS, QMS, On key and other System Skills
• High Tension cables, switchgear, transformers, and instrumentation
• AC and DC drives, Precaps’, AC and DC motors.
• PLC (Siemens S5 + S7)
• Maintenance systems.

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Business Intelligence - Complete job-cards correctly and accurately with respect to time, asset classes, sub-classes and failure causes. Submit Asset Care Change suggestions for Continuous Improvement purposes. Liaise with Planning personnel to ensure that workorder feedback is captured correctly.
• Functional Strategy and Planning - Perform proper job and spares planning.
• Execution of Maintenance - Conduct electrical work which supports maintenance, diagnostics, repairs and installations of mechanical equipment as per planned and un-planned workorders. Perform planned and un-planned maintenance activities (as per CMMS) in a timeous and cost effective manner to the correct standard. Provide feedback to the Foreman on the execution of work for Continuous Improvement of work methods, tools, standardisation and planning. Perform preliminary failure diagnostics on equipment failures in order to take remedial action. Identify pro-
• active maintenance opportunities. Create requests for spares and materials and interact with stores issuing personnel. Perform periodic, scheduled Asset Health Checks. Maintain housekeeping standards.
• Operational Control - Ensure that Operational Best Practices (OBP) is adhered to. Complete intangible and tangible time booking accurately. Complete daily checklists for tools and areas of responsibility. Perform capturing of operational data.
• Communication and Reporting - Participate meaningfully in the departmental INVOCOMs. Achieve engineering Key Performance Indicators. Provide input into interdepartmental INVOCOMs. Report factors, incidents and accidents that pose a business risk.
• Governance and Risk Management - Adhere to IMS, legal, statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Minimise environmental non-conformances. Comply with disciplinary rules, regulations and procedures.
• Inventory Management - Submit requests for non-stock, direct purchases or emergency spares to the Foreman. Minimise working material inventory.
• Contractor Management - Interact professionally with external service providers and contractors as required.