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  • Posted: Nov 11, 2025
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  • Alstom has been present in South Africa for more than a century. During these years the company provided a wide range of products and technologies which helped develop the country’s infrastructure. Alstom provided equipment for 12 of South Africa’s 13 coal-fired power plants and for the only nuclear power plant, but it also played a historical...

     

    Maintenance Engineer Mechanical (Richards Bay) TSSSA

    PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

    • Plan and maintain equipment according EHS rules, RCM and according to manufacturer’s specifications.
    • Manage sub-contractor on daily maintenance, investigate breakdowns and analyse the root cause.
    • Minimize down time and make sure production is not affected by either planned or unplanned maintenance.
    • Maintain a 95% availability on all equipment, plant and tools.

    KEY NETWORK & LINKS :

    • Support Functions, eg ; Supply-Chain, production, quality
    • Sourcing & Tooling Suppliers
    • Maintenance subcontractors

    MISSION & RESPONSIBILITIES :

    • Plan, supervise, and monitor the execution of planned and unplanned maintenance activities (including calibrations and other interventions)
    • Coordinate forecasts emerging as an output from the Maintenance Management System of customer.
    • Ensure that maintenance schedules are detailed, documented and implemented correctly by Customer.
    • Ensure minimum disruption of maintenance activities through effective planning, communication, and coordination with other stakeholders.
    • Investigate breakdowns and interruptions through the application of root cause analysis and other techniques.
    • Plan for maintenance consumables and spares, and ensure availability of spares through effective stock control
    • Monitor and record Locomotive availability, utilization and other KPI’s (MTBF, MTTR etc)
    • Ensure records such as status labels, certificates, reports, lifting device certificate, firefighting equipment, certificates of compliance are kept in a traceable manner
    • Maintain meticulous records of all maintenance, calibration & inspection interventions.
    • Ensure all maintenance activity complies with quality procedure and safety regulations
    • Ensure that contractors are inducted, supervised, and disciplined to adhere to quality and safety requirements
    • To establish together with the equipment maintenance contractors the planning of the maintenance activities
    • To participate and be involved in APSYS actions (actions like TPM, work instructions for equipment preventive maintenance) to guarantee overall equipment availability and effectiveness
    • To manage and follow up the optimum functioning of equipment installations maintenance team.
    • To report the required data of equipment in conformity with the industrial needs : availability of equipment and follow-up of the linked indicators.
    • To ensure the follow-up of all the equipment documentation (paper and informatics support)
    • To undertake other duties as specified by the Service Engineering Manager
    • To carry out such work in accordance with strict Health & Safety procedures as laid down by legislation and the Company Health & Safety policies.

    MEASUREMENT

    • Achievement of QCD Commitments and EHS
    • Respect of HSE and Quality policies.
    • Respect of OPEX budget on maintenance
    • Saturation of main critical tools and equipment
    • Respect of target task time in compliance with Industrial & Project planning
    • Availability of tools to perform the maintenance &/or repair activities
    • Autonomy, Spirit of “Agile Inclusive Responsible

    CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

    BEHAVIOUR

    • Flexible and Adaptable.  Can adapt to new ideas, new issues
    • Conscientious.  Meets proposed deadlines with ability to work under pressure
    • Team Player.  Supports team members, Spirit of “Agile Inclusive Responsible”
    • Desire to learn and develop
    • Analysis capacity
    • Ability to Coach Others.  Occasionally has to share skills/information to others
    • Self-Motivation.  Is inspired by the job in hand and inspires others to achieve agreed goals
    • Logical and organized
    • Planning and organization skills
    • Communication skills efficient at all levels of organisation
    • Autonomous

    EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

    • Technical University Education – Mechatronics/ Mechanical degree 
    • IT literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
    • English fluency

    EXPERIENCE

    • 3-5 years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering
    • Maintenance background with minimum 5 years’ experience in activities of operation and maintenance preferably in manufacturing
    • Technical background with minimum 5 years’ experience
    • Management experience
    • Experience related to follow-up of subcontracted activity
    • Ability to read and understand schematics, drawings, and software specifications
    • Working knowledge of Quality and Health & Safety standards and systems preferable

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    Maintenance Engineer (Electrical) (Richards Bay) TSSSA

    THE PURPOSE OF THE MAINTENANCE ENGINEER (ELECTRICAL)  ROLE IS TO:

    • Plan and maintain equipment according EHS rules, RCM and according to manufacturer’s specifications.
    • Manage sub-contractor on daily maintenance, investigate breakdowns and analyse the root cause.
    • Minimize down time and make sure production is not affected by either planned or unplanned maintenance.
    • Maintain a 95% availability on all equipment, plant and tools.
    • Provide support to maintain contractual 12 FPMK

    THE MAIN RESPONSIBILITY WILL BE:

    • Plan, supervise, and monitor the execution of planned and unplanned maintenance activities (including calibrations and other interventions)
    • Coordinate forecasts emerging as an output from the Maintenance Management System of customer.
    • Ensure that maintenance schedules are detailed, documented and implemented correctly by Customer.
    • Ensure minimum disruption of maintenance activities through effective planning, communication, and coordination with other stakeholders.
    • Investigate breakdowns and interruptions through the application of root cause analysis and other techniques.
    • Plan for maintenance consumables and spares, and ensure availability of spares through effective stock control
    • Monitor and record Locomotive availability, utilization and other KPI’s (MTBF, MTTR etc)
    • Ensure records such as status labels, certificates, reports, lifting device certificate, firefighting equipment, certificates of compliance are kept in a traceable manner
    • Maintain meticulous records of all maintenance, calibration & inspection interventions.
    • Ensure all maintenance activity complies with quality procedure and safety regulations
    • Ensure that contractors are inducted, supervised, and disciplined to adhere to quality and safety requirements
    • To establish together with the equipment maintenance contractors the planning of the maintenance activities
    • To participate and be involved in APSYS actions (actions like TPM, work instructions for equipment preventive maintenance) to guarantee overall equipment availability and effectiveness
    • To manage and follow up the optimum functioning of equipment installations maintenance team.
    • To report the required data of equipment in conformity with the industrial needs : availability of equipment and follow-up of the linked indicators.
    • To ensure the follow-up of all the equipment documentation (paper and informatics support)
    • To undertake other duties as specified by the Service Engineering Manager
    • To carry out such work in accordance with strict Health & Safety procedures as laid down by legislation and the Company Health & Safety policies.

    MEASUREMENT

    • Achievement of QCD Commitments and EHS
    • Respect of HSE and Quality policies.
    • Respect of OPEX budget on maintenance
    • Saturation of main critical tools and equipment
    • Respect of target task time in compliance with Industrial & Project planning
    • Availability of tools to perform the maintenance &/or repair activities
    • Autonomy, Spirit of “Agile Inclusive Responsible
    • Availability and Reliability targets are met

    CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

    BEHAVIOUR

    • Flexible and Adaptable.  Can adapt to new ideas, new issues
    • Conscientious.  Meets proposed deadlines with ability to work under pressure
    • Team Player.  Supports team members, Spirit of “Agile Inclusive Responsible”
    • Desire to learn and develop
    • Analysis capacity
    • Ability to Coach Others.  Occasionally has to share skills/information to others
    • Self-Motivation.  Is inspired by the job in hand and inspires others to achieve agreed goals
    • Logical and organized
    • Planning and organization skills
    • Communication skills efficient at all levels of organisation
    • Autonomous
    • Ability to problem solve

    EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS 

    • Technical University Education –  Electrical - Bachelor of Engineering,  Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree or equivalent
    • IT literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
    • English fluency

    EXPERIENCE

    • 3-5 years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering
    • Maintenance background with minimum 5 years’ experience in activities of operation and maintenance preferably in manufacturing
    • Technical background with minimum 5 years’ experience
    • Management experience
    • Experience related to follow-up of subcontracted activity
    • Ability to read and understand schematics, drawings, and software specifications
    • Working knowledge of Quality and Health & Safety standards and systems preferable

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