Rainbow- Refrigeration Technician

• Grade 12/ Senior Certificate
• Refrigeration Technician Trade Test Certificate              
• Authorized refrigeration practitioner Cat B Ammonia

Required Experience:

• Minimum 3 years post qualification relevant maintenance experience in a production environment

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Sound experience in a food-manufacturing environment.
• Be able to work with minimum supervision.
• Must be willing to work shifts, overtime and do standby duty.
• Must be a team player.
• Must be willing to train other employees

Key Responsibilities:

Installation, Maintenance and Repair-

• Install refrigeration equipment and systems.
• Inspect systems and their components to ensure safety and identify necessary repairs and to provide an ongoing programme of preventive maintenance.
• Diagnose problems and/or failures in refrigeration systems to identify equipment and/or systems repair and replacement needs.
• Perform routine and preventive maintenance as needed and/or assigned to ensure the ongoing functioning of refrigeration systems.
• Test components using electrical and mechanical test equipment.
• Charge and leak test the refrigerant charged systems.
• Perform pre-start up checks on equipment and adjust as necessary.
• Lay-out and install reference points for determining equipment location.
• Prepare documentation (e.g. records of refrigerants, paperwork, logs, time and materials, specifications, etc.) for the purpose of providing written support in compliance with regulations and/or conveying information.
• Repair various items, systems and/or components to ensure that equipment are available and in safe working condition. Electrical and mechanical activities with reference to preventative maintenance and construction work.
• Maintain tools and/or equipment to ensure the availability of equipment in safe operating condition.
• Respond to emergency situations during or after hours to resolve immediate safety concerns.
• Dismantle malfunctioning systems, analyse and test components, using electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic testing equipment 

Implementation of Safety Health Environment, Risk and Quality (SHEQ)-

• Implement and comply with health and safety procedures.
• Ensure that documentation required within the Total Integrated Management System (TIMS), is applied consistently within scope of function.

Team Coordination-

• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning, prioritising and self-development.
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provide appropriate resolution.
• Support and drive the business core values.
• Manage colleagues and clients’ expectations and communicate appropriately.
• Demonstrate willingness to help others and “go the extra mile” to meet team targets and objectives.
• Champion training and development of self and others through utilising available training opportunities or contributing to the development of new training solutions in collaboration with national training specialists.
• Participate in and drive regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable

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