Tire Technician at Lan-x Africa Limited

Repair and replace tires, do fleet checks, road service calls, after hour’s calls and minor service and repairs on Commercial Customer vehicles.

Reports to Maintenance Technician.

Roles

• Maintain and well document a ‘tire spare’ system to ensure that vehicles within the fleet do not suffer any downtime and disruptions in service delivery due to punctures.
• Use all safety related PPE such as gloves, safety glasses and tire cages while doing any work.
• Raise vehicles using hydraulic jacks.
• Unbolt wheels from vehicles and remove them, using lug wrenches and other hand and power tools.
• Separate tires from wheels, using rubber mallets and metal bars or mechanical tire changers.
• Inspect tire casings for defects, such as holes and tears.
• Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools.
• Reassemble tires onto wheels.
• Identify and inflate tires correctly for the size and ply.
• Remount wheels onto vehicles.
• Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.
• Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
• Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools.
• Assist mechanics and perform other duties as directed.

Necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Autonomy – Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Detail Oriented – Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Organized – Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Problem Solving – Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
• Reliability – The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Safety Awareness – Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.  Employee must be safety conscious, work in a safe manner using all required PPE.
• Schedule Flexibility – Employee must be flexible on scheduled hours realizing that business hours are dictated by fleet needs and can run past scheduled ending times or start before scheduled beginning times.
• Working Under Pressure – Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.

Job Requirements

• Education O’ level
• Prior experience in tire repair necessary
• Experience in operating tire changing machine is MANDATORY
• Must write legibly, be able to read and verify information from work order to vehicle including tire size, vehicle information and other Customer related information.