Toolkmaker - Durban, South Africa - Platinum Placements

Description

• Grade 12
• Trade Test (Toolmaker or Tool Jig & Die Maker)
• 5 years working experience in an Automotive Manufacturing environment

Maintenance Process (Scheduled):

• Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work
• Inspect the tooling and determine spares and consumables requirements
• Generate Job Requisitions for scheduled maintenance work (type of repair or maintenance, spares, quantities, time, etc.)
• Transport tools, equipment and spares to the work site
• Isolate equipment, perform lockouts and make the work area safe
• Conduct Preventive Maintenance activities
• Perform change overs in the production environment
• Count stock for a Stock Take integrity check (check spares condition during the count)

Maintenance Process (Breakdown):

• Attend to machine breakdowns of a mechanical/electrical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control
• Update the responsible person on progress of repairs
• Escalate the problem to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully
• Capture all information related to the breakdown to aid in determining the root cause
• File job requisition upon completion of repair

Mechanical Maintenance:

• Perform routine maintenance
• Align machines and equipment
• Diagnose and repair faults on equipment and machinery during production/operation
• Commission and refurbish machines / equipment
• Operate and monitor a drilling machine to produce simple components
• Operate and monitor a lathe to produce simple components
• Operate and monitor a milling machine to produce simple components
• Operate and monitor a surface grinding machine to produce simple components
• Operate the Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) to seal moulds
• Perform basic welding/joining of metals
• Perform MIG/TIG welding of metals Grind tools and drill bits

Tooling Maintenance:

• Maintain and repair production tooling
• Develop new tooling or modify existing tooling when required
• Change and set tooling
• Diagnose and repair faults on tooling during the production run
• Manufacture basic tooling and production tooling to drawing or sample part
• Move, lift, lower and look after tooling

Fabrication:

• Develop and fabricate from complex drawings
• Mechanically cut, drill and punch fabrication materials
• Join metals using the resistance welding process
• Weld work piece (oxy-acetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding)
• Remove metals using oxy-fuel and air-carbon arc gouging processes

Maintenance Process (Post Maintenance):

• Test and commission machinery or equipment prior to handover
• Complete the Planned Maintenance Schedule (Work completed, work not completed, spares used, spares not available, time taken, observations, problems, etc.)
• Identify any other work required (including additional spares)
• Clean up after completion of job and inform the responsible person that the maintenance has been completed to the required standard

Engineering Projects:

• Work as a project team member

Material Handling:

• Sling loads
• Operating cranes/hoists
• Operating forklifts

Continuous Improvement:

• Participate in continuous improvement drives related to tooling

Reporting:

• Complete Maintenance Time Sheets (nature of work, time spent to repair and material/spares used