Fitter vacancy at Anglo American
DEADLINE: 28 January 2025
The purpose of this role is to Perform mechanical maintenance on equipment and machinery safely and cost-effectively to maximise equipment reliability and availability.
Tasks
- Safety, Health, and Environment
- Adhere to all health and safety practices and requirements.
- Promote good housekeeping to ensure compliance and an environment where team members can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
- “Exemplify” all relevant safety standards and procedures as a positive example for learners to follow and prioritise in their work practices.
- Performance and Delivery
- Pipefitting: Select and cut pipes, install pipe supports, and connect pipes to fixtures, valves, and other components during the installation and maintenance of piping systems.
- Structural Fitting: Assemble and install structural components, such as beams, columns, and frameworks.
- Machinery Installation: Assemble and install machinery and mechanical equipment, which includes aligning and securing components to ensure proper functionality.
- Welding: Use welding techniques to join metal components, crucial for creating solid and durable connections in structures, piping systems, or machinery.
- Alignment and Calibration: Use precision tools and instruments to align and calibrate machinery components.
- Handover: Ensure proper communication and handover of outstanding tasks between shifts and day-shift teams.
- Equipment Control:
- Ensure effective equipment and related machinery maintenance to ensure optimal utilisation and availability toward maximising production and throughput schedules.
- The Work: Key Outputs and Accountabilities
- Identify and report defects, equipment failures and time required to repair the Supervisor to enable applicable decision-making, action planning and problem resolution.
- Maintenance Efficiency:
- Support HME/Plant personnel by ensuring that the necessary HME/Plant and equipment maintenance preparations and maintenance tasks follow SMP (Standard Maintenance Practice) to improve work practices and operational targets.
- Ensure installations, commissioning of infrastructure and post-installation work testing for functionality are executed following specifications to meet deadlines and budget requirements.
- Assistance:
- Ensure oil samples are taken and labelled following workshop procedures to enable the Laboratory to conduct the necessary analysis and testing.
- Assist the supervisor and co-workers according to their level/area of competence and follow company policies when instructed or during the absence of the responsible person to ensure the achievement of functional objectives
Qualifications
- Grade 12 Certificate / N3 Technical
- Trade Certificate as Fitter
- SA Drivers License
Technical Knowledge
- 2 Years’ operational maintenance experience as a Fitter.
- Essential skills and techniques used by artisans.
- Safety standards and regulations applicable to the work.
- Equipment used in the specific field of work.
- Various oil sampling methodologies and their applications
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