Job Description

An Installation Specialist is a position where you are responsible for the installation of customer specific equipment including but not limited to fabricating, fitting, and assembly as well as fault finding and final commissioning to achieve project milestones.

Key Performance Areas:

1.     Read Manufacturing & Assembly Drawings.
2.     Assembling structural components from delivered materials according to drawing.
3.     Continually check that fabricated and assembled components meet the highest quality standards.
4.     Ensure that tools and project materials are available for the tasks ahead.
5.     Fault finding, corrections and feedback to Supervisor.
6.     Housekeeping.
7.     Adhere to Health and Safety.

Requirements for the Position:

Skills & Qualifications:

1.     Grade 10.
2.     Valid Driver’s Licence - Code B (a) or higher.
3.     Completing a relevant apprenticeship program is required (Red Seal Certification).

Expereince:

Minimum of one year of proven experience in project-based installation, preferably international.

Competencies:

Punctual
Honest
Safety Conscious
Attention to detail

Accurate
Problem-solving
Time management skills
Communication skills
Confidence
Excellence
Tidiness
Good personal appearance

Core Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Employee Engagement

1.    Initiate your learning (via line manager, publications, or colleagues).
2.    Provide feedback on your progress against goals.
3.    Skills development.

Read Manufacturing & Assembly Drawings

1.    Obtain drawings from the Site Manager.
2.    Read the measurements to plan the layout and procedure.
3.    Read P&ID symbols from the drawings.
4.    Ensure that all jobs are executed according to the drawings provided promptly and of excellent quality.

Assembling structural components from delivered materials according to drawing

1.     Using given materials to assemble and install the complete mechanical system.
2.     Experience in hydraulics, pneumatics, pumps, gearboxes, chain drives, and alignment, would be advantageous.

Continually check that fabricated and assembled components meet the highest quality standards

1. Ensure that the quality of the work is of the highest standard by using precision and measuring equipment to check for tolerances.

Ensure that tools and project materials are available for the tasks ahead

1.     Talk through and understand the task/s ahead.
2.     Prepare all the tools and equipment required for the job.
3.     Ensure that materials are available and prepared for the task/s ahead.
4.     Communicate with the Site Manager when any uncertainties and challenges arise.

Health and Safety

1.    Ensure all H&S (Health and Safety) procedures are adhered to in all respects on the site.
2.    Comply with Health & Safety requirements in line with training, policies, procedures, risk assessments, method statements, safe systems of work, etc.  Actively seek to improve the safety culture.
3.    Knowledge of relevant safety standards and willingness to wear the required PPE.

Assist with Administration Responsibilities

1.    Ensure that job sheets are filled in timeously and are not to be completed during working hours.
2.    Ensure that vehicle logbooks are completed accurately.

Housekeeping

1. Ensure that your workstation is clean and presentable at all times.

Management, motivation and leadership

1.   Accountable for your work, time, and delivery.
2.   Meet required standards as per operating procedures.
3.   Continuously strive to enhance individual contribution to add to team efforts.
5.   Deliver results as per individual KPIs.
6.   Executes tasks timeously.

Organising and Planning

1.    Planning to include routine and non-routine tasks.
2.   Schedule your tasks and tasks to get work done.
3.   Maintain a diary system or schedule.
4.   Responsible for planning your work to ensure effective time management.

Effectiveness and Delivery

1.    Make recommendations on the quality of your work, and be self-aware.
2.    Identify operational problems and escalate.
3.    Exercise judgment within the technical area of work.
4.    Operate on facts, and ensure all facts are known.
5.    Logical and disciplined.
6.    Applies common sense to problems and problem-solving.

Commitment and Effort

1.   Individual contributor.
2.   Assume responsibility and accountability for all practices and processes within your control.
3.   Critique your performance as a means of improving work standards.
4.   Puts in the effort to get all tasks completed.
5.   Take accountability for the quality of your work.
6.   Considers all relevant details needed to ensure the quality of work.

Initiative and Innovation

1.    Support innovation by making recommendations for improvement of the efficiency of processes.
2.    Recommends new creative ways to improve processes within your expertise and responsibility.
3.    Takes action without being asked to, be proactive.

Appointment/s will include the principles of Employment Equity.

Applicants who have not been contacted after 21 days should accept that their applications have been unsuccessful.