Role Purpose:
To perform skilled maintenance, installation, repair and inspection work on complex refrigeration equipment.
Required Qualifications:
- 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
How To Apply?
