Electrician - Pretoria West

Company:
RCL Foods

Functions:
Engineering

Job Type Classification:
Permanent

Location - Town / City:
Pretoria West

Job Description:
RCL FOODS is a deeply rooted South African food manufacturer that produces some of the country’s most-loved brands, including Yum Yum peanut butter, Nola mayonnaise, Ouma rusks, and Selati sugar, just to name a few. At the heart of our culture and strategy is our Purpose – WE GROW WHAT MATTERS – which reflects our belief in collectively doing that little more to create a positive impact that truly matters. Visit our website: www.rclfoods.com RCL FOODS is seeking Electrician to join our Baking Division . The role will be based in Pretoria West and reports to the Maintenance Manager. Purpose of the role: Responsible for maintaining or constructing industrial machinery.

Minimum Requirements:
Matric Must have an N3, in Electrical engineering Qualified Electrician

Duties & Responsibilities:
To ensure efficient and cost-effective maintenance to all Electrical equipment. To be pro-active in identifying potential faults/breakdowns before they occur. To ensure that all breakdowns are attended to in a cost-effective/ fastest manner possible To ensure the continued good conditioning of all equipment in the Production Facilities. To ensure that the necessary spare equipment/ instruments are maintained in the maintenance D-store. To ensure and prevent come back or repeated failures and breakdowns. To implement preventative actions and maintenance to reduce breakdowns. Installation, Maintenance, Service and repair of electrical/ Electronic networks and equipment within the production facilities. Advanced Fault finding on electrical circuits. Ensuring machine availability through minimizing of downtime. Attending to breakdowns, fault findings and rectification. Planned and preventative maintenance on all electrical installations/ equipment. To ensure that all MV and LV Substations are maintained and kept in order with SANS standards. To ensure that SANS 10142 wiring regulations are adhered to always. To ensure that SANS 10108 hazardous location regulations are adhered to always. To ensure compliance to the work permit/ lockout system in use at RCL Foods Consumer division. To ensure compliance to all safety policies of the company and safety regulations. To ensure all Safety devices on all equipment to be in place and working 100% always. Knowledge and compliance with SHEQ legislation and regulations. Adhere to food safety, occupational health and safety, environmental and other risk management requirements standards as per OHS Act, COID Act. To ensure efficient and cost-effective maintenance to all instrumentation equipment. To be pro-active in identifying potential faults/ breakdowns before they occur. To ensure that all breakdowns are attended to in a cost-effective/ fastest manner possible. To ensure the continued good condition of all equipment. To ensure that the necessary spare instruments are maintained in the maintenance D-store. HMI’s, PLCs and SCADA Systems: To ensure efficient and cost-effective maintenance to all soft PLC hardware. Must be capable to program small changes and requirements to PLCs and SCADA system. To be pro-active in identifying potential faults/ breakdowns before they occur. To ensure that all breakdowns are attended to in a cost-effective/ fastest manner possible. To ensure the continued good condition of all equipment. To ensure that all new small-scale projects/ changes and modifications are implemented and completed to the requirements of the Plant Engineer/ Engineering Manager. Implement projects in the shortest period without financial loss to the company. Ensure successful implementation of small scale projects, and testing after implementation compulsory. Ensure correct devices, machinery and software applications are installed for the correct processes.