Toolmaker (Plant) - Durban, South Africa - Abantu Staffing Solutions

Description

Job Purpose:

• To ensure that all moulds and tools are processed through the tool room timeously and to a standard that will allow them to be run by production with minimal rejects.

Reporting To:

Maintenance Specialist

Educational Requirements:

• 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