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Bridgestone South Africa: Electrical Technician
Bridgestone South Africa: Electrical Technician job opportunity has become available in North West for applicants in possession of the below qualifications and experience. If interested, kindly check the below requirements. STREAK OF LUCK!
Bridgestone South Africa invites applicants to apply for Experienced-Hire Job Opportunity.
Company: Bridgestone South Africa
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Brits, North West, South Africa
Closing Date: Not Specified
Job Purpose:
- To assist in ensuring plant availability and uptime by attending to equipment breakdown. Initiate and manage continuous improvement projects.
- To perform various skilled, journey-level tasks in installation, maintenance, testing, and repair of electronic control systems and electrical systems. Electrical Technicians modify electrical prototypes in order to correct operational deviations under the general direction of an Electrical Engineer.
Main Responsibilities:
- Provide support to production by attending to breakdowns
- Troubleshooting and faultfinding on electrical equipment of breakdowns
- Complete job cards for every job done in accordance to Bridgestone standards
- Participate and carry out root cause analysis for every breakdown and documenting corrective actions
- Order Spares required to fix equipment breakdowns long term
- Comply to all safety regulations as stipulated in the occupational health and safety act
- Develop the technical skills of the electricians by training and mentoring on execution of basic electrical tasks
- Identify when external contractor/vendor is needed, and work in collaboration with contractor/vendor to complete work
- Identify, Initiate and manage small Continuous Improvement projects (Kaizen) and support engineering projects on site
Carry out Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
- Provide preventive and predictive maintenance of the electrical systems
- Suggesting and implement continuous improvement ideas to improve machine reliability
- Complete daily work orders as assigned and update team with daily work reports outlining progress and new issues
Assemble electrical and electronic systems and prototypes according to engineering data and knowledge of electrical principles, using hand tools and measuring instruments
- Follow electrical practice when doing a job, always keeping safety in mind.
- Use Correct Test Equipment
Install and maintain electrical control systems and solid state equipment
- Programming of PLC, and Drives
- Fault finding on PLC and Drives
- SCADA & Motion
Modify electrical prototypes, parts, assemblies, and systems to correct functional deviations
- When a new system is implemented, it must work correctly with the existing system.
- Update electrical drawings
Analyse and interpret test information to resolve design-related problems
- Get all information before making decisions or alterations
Education:
- National Diploma or Degree in Electrical Engineering
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the electrical field on rotation machinery.
- Minimum of 3 years experience in the tyre manufacturing and automotive industry will be an advantage.
Leadership Competencies:
- Business Acumen
- Shapes business strategy
- Drives accountability and high performance
- Fosters teamwork and collaboration
- Customer focus and Customer Service orientation/mindset
- Nurtures and coaches
- Builds partnerships
- Develops others
- Health and Safety
- Hazard Awareness
- SHE Law and Regulatory Systems
- Emergency Response
How to Apply for Bridgestone South Africa: Electrical Technician
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