Maintenance Fitter
South Africa
Responsible for conducting daily plant checks, carrying out overall plant maintenance and repairs, and reporting directly to the mechanical foreman and maintenance planner.• Assembled and maintained gearboxes• Carried out pipe fitting tasks• Performed welding functions• Carried out various machining duties• Installed, tensioned, maintained, and replaced sprockets on chain drives• Installed, maintained, performed fault-finding, and replaced wear plates on scraper tanks• Performed fault-finding, bag replacements, and stack emission monitoring on wet and dry filtration systems• Installed, aligned, maintained, and repaired couplings• Installed, performed troubleshooting, repaired, and replaced hydraulic and pneumatic components• Valve installation, troubleshooting, and actuators• Interpreted hydraulic and pneumatic circuit drawings• Installed, performed troubleshooting, repaired, assembled, and conducted impeller inspections on bearing assemblies and fans• Installed, aligned, performed fault-finding, maintained, and repaired drives and V-belts• Managed shutdowns• Performed pump installations, maintenance, fault-finding, alignment, priming, and repairs• Fulfilled stand-by duties as required• Liaised with other departments and the production crew• Procured suitable spares• Mentored and trained learners and apprentices• Liaised with contractors• Fulfilled the role of designated fire fighter in our sectionIn-house training:• Overhead pendant crane (2022)• Confined space entry (2021)• Forklift licence (2020)• Scaffold Erector (2020)• Safety risk management programme (2017)• Confined space (2014) • Machine guarding (2009)• Task risk assessment (2008)• Gas safety level 1 (2008)• Confined space entry (2008)• Risk assessment training (2007)
