Primary purpose of the job:

Reporting to the Group Leader Maintenance. Ensure equipment availability according to the set maintenance KPI’s. Returning equipment to full functionality when a brake-down occurred within a timely fashion. Ensure preventative maintenance on all equipment is done. Manage and train direct subordinates on all equipment and technologies. Identifying spare requirements for all equipment. Identify possible failure points on the equipment and address them. Optimize equipment to increase the hourly production rate. Manage the subordinates to ensure all KPI’s are met. That all subordinates comply to the company health and safety standards.

Key Performance Areas:

• MTTR (Mean time to repair) less than 20 Minutes for all subordinates.
• Downtime Feedback less than 1 Day and Min 95% completion rate for all subordinates.
• Works Order / PM closeout within 7 Day’s.
• Equipment downtime less than 5%.
• Downtime analysis completed weekly (Root cause analysis).
• MTTF (Mean time to failure) more than 24 hours for all equipment.
• Identifying UA/UC as per company requirement and fixing identified issues within the required time.
• Manage and accurately book overtime for subordinates and ensure weekly overtime does not exceed legal limits.
• All pre-shift and TPM inspections are completed timeously.

Skills Required:

• Problem solving
• Ability to read and understand electrical drawings
• Electrical, hydraulic & PLC fault finding
• Ability to read and understand Hydraulic/Pneumatic drawings
• Able to programme Robotics & PLC
• Cross train subordinates & give support where and when required

Minimum Requirements:                                                         

Diploma Mechatronics, Mechanical or Electrical NQF6

Supervisory management

Siemens S7

ABB Robotics

Uptime

Min. 5 years’ experience as an Instrumentation Technician within an automotive environment                                                                  

Extensive PLC programming experience

Siemens TIA – Min 3 Years experience

Extensive Robotic experience for ABB – Stamp Master – Min 3 Years

Extensive working knowledge of Vision system for Cognex camera’s - Min 3 Years

Maintenance and functional knowledge of Mechanical presses - Min 3 Years.

Performance Management, Leadership & Delegation, Conflict Resolution, Strategic Thinking - Min 3 Years