Auto Electrician

About the role

Transnet (TPT Ngqura CT) is hiring an Auto Electrician, based in Ngqura. The role reports to the Technical Supervisor. Grade: I2. Provide electrician services to all cargo handling equipment by repairing, maintaining and improving its functionality to ensure that they are safe, reliable and available to operations to eliminate operations downtime.

Responsibilities

• 1. Examine, assess and conduct regular preventative maintenance on all cargo handling equipment
• To ensure its reliability and maintain a high level of availability.
• 2. Examine, evaluate, monitor and report equipment for abuse, deviations and functionality whilst in
• Operation to detect and identify early warning signs of potential damage in order to rectify
• Problems and change behaviour before a major breakdown.
• 3. Plan and prepare apprentices for on-the-job training in order to train and develop them according
• To their development plan, thereby ensuring skills are adequately transferred.
• 4. Respond, establish and repair fault for breakdown in the quickest possible time to minimize
• Operational downtime.
• 5. Assess and ascertain size of repair work and spares specifications required in order to inform
• And follow-up with Supervisor for ordering of parts to plan for repair in the shortest timeframe
• Thereby making equipment available for operations.

Requirements

• Matric/NTC 2
• Trade Tested Auto Electrician
• (Trade Test Certificate)
• Valid Code B driver license
• (Code EC will be advantageous)
• 3 to 5 years relevant working
• Experience.