- Bellville
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Construction Mining Automotive
- Benefits: Medical Aid
- Reference: 7793
- Employment Equity Position
Vacancy Details
Employer: Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
Job Specification Summary:
- Remains up to date with health and safety procedures.
- Conducts hazard identification and risk assessment.
- Implement the Komatsu Way 5S sorting, organizing, cleaning, ordering, and training.
- Adheres to SHE policies and procedures.
- Complies with and instructs colleagues and subordinate staff in the wearing of protective gear and clothing.
- Participates in workplace safety events.
- Operates any vehicles (trucks, cars, forklifts) within safety standards and procedures, even when not supervised.
- Reports hazardous situations, incidents, or accidents.
- Reports on vehicle usage and incidents.
- Plans for health checks and inspection of equipment.
- Informs the leadership of the work steps and technical issues.
- Conducts visual machine/equipment inspection – health condition, breakdowns.
- Conduct general inspection in terms of appearance, damage, or missing components.
- Inspect for leakages, check machine operations, check rust, check for wrong or missing parts, download machine data, identify cracks visually, and take samples (oil, coolants, etc.)
- Test and adjust faulty components/parts/systems.
- Monitors the functionality of the component/equipment and progress made.
- Reports inspection results, as well as any abnormalities or damage.
- Reports problems and issues to the manager.
- Complete daily activity and service reports.
- Provide feedback regarding continuous improvement/suggestions to the manager.
- components essays items/parts/tools from the warehouse via approved procedures.
- Apply judgment in the replacement or re-use of parts.
- Gain technical advice or approval to replace a part/component.
- Execute mechanical/electrical repairs. Clean equipment/parts/components.
Required Skills
- Maintenance: 3 to 4 years
- Risk Analysis: 4 to 5 years
- Troubleshooting: 3 to 4 years
- Repairing: 3 to 4 years
- Repair Analysis: 3 to 4 years
Candidate Requirements
Qualification:
- Grade 12/N3
- Trade certificate (Heavy Equipment Mechanic)
Experience:
- 3 years post Trade experience as a Heavy Equipment Mechanic
Specific knowledge requirements:
- Exposure to earth-moving machinery.
- Have good trouble shooting knowledge on equipment & familiar with standard tool requirements
- Computer literate (MS Office)
- Good understanding of maintenance policies and procedures
- Good communication and inter-personal skills
- Knowledge of and experience working with Komatsu equipment is an added advantage.
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About Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
We build machines to answer the needs of society. For more than a century, our brand has been synonymous with connection to community. It guides everything we do, from the ways we think about innovation, to how we hire and train new employees around the world, and how we build relationships with our customers.
In 1921, Meitaro Takeuchi founded our company in the town that shares our name. He did so to provide work for the local community after the closure of a nearby copper mine.
Today, we have come a long way from where we started. We have evolved into a truly global company with a diverse workforce comprised of different nationalities and beliefs. And it’s by harnessing the potential of all our different talents and unique perspectives that we push ourselves further.
We explore and help advance the boundaries of technology, developing smart construction equipment and autonomous mining trucks, creating underwater electric bulldozers and even conceptualizing an excavator capable of operating on the moon. Our products and solutions directly support industries essential to the ongoing development of modern societies and everyday life.
For our core customers in forestry, construction and mining, we make big machines that take on even bigger challenges, gentle giants answering the needs of society.
We believe that when people are united by a common goal, the truly remarkable happens. In communities across the globe, we find purpose in creating value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, business, and our planet thrive together.
Harnessing our collective expertise to go further, we stay true to our brand promise: Creating value together.
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