Maintenance Electromechanical Technician
Manufacturing
Cape Town – Western Cape – South Africa
Join a well-established manufacturing business where you will take ownership of maintaining and improving the reliability of specialised production equipment. Reporting to the General Manager, you will play a hands-on role in diagnosing faults, completing repairs and ensuring machinery operates safely and efficiently.
Minimum Requirements
- Trade Test / Journeyman qualification in Printers’ Mechanic, Flexographic Printing or General Machine Maintenance.
- Minimum 5 years’ hands-on maintenance experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong mechanical aptitude with basic electrical and PLC fault-finding experience.
- Welding, milling and lathe experience.
- Proven ability to diagnose electromechanical faults and repair production equipment.
- Print or converting industry experience will be highly advantageous.
Key Result Areas:
- Diagnosing and repairing older mechanical production equipment with PLC-controlled systems.
- Performing preventative and breakdown maintenance.
- Completing in-house repairs using the workshop facilities.
- Identifying and managing suitable specialist service providers when outsourced repairs are required.
- Maintaining generators, compressors and other support equipment.
- Driving high housekeeping and engineering standards across the factory while supporting production teams to maximise equipment uptime.