Fitter at Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL)

Job Purpose

• The job holder will be responsible for maintaining all equipment, optimize availability and reliability of equipment and give assistance with the co-ordination of line activities to meet the production plan.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Area 1: Undertake preventive maintenance

•  Perform all mechanical repairs as required to ensure the plant is operating optimally.
•  Record and provide feedback on the causes and corrective action for all breakdown including analysing and interpreting the breakdown trends and history.
•  Ensure that all specified preventive maintenance tasks are performed, including cleaning, inspections, lubrication and scheduled maintenance.
•  Give feedback regarding the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance program in order to improve the effectiveness.
•  Conduct regular (scheduled and un-scheduled) inspection of all equipment and initiate work orders if necessary.
•  Participate in maintenance planning and provide feedback on maintenance performed in order to drive the development of effective Maintenance systems.
•  Assist with upgrading of plant by mechanical parts, drawing machine parts and preparing reference files and documentation of machine manuals.
•  Co-ordinate and perform repairs within level of competencies and assist with complex repairs in adherence to the trigger system regarding breakdown maintenance.
•  Monitor equipment / process quality performance, availability, reliability and document downtime events, in detailed engineering reports
•  Adhere to all relevant policies, procedures, work instruction and SOPs at all times including risk, health and safety procedures and statutory requirements.

Area 2: Health & Safety

•  Identify, communicate all risks and implement measures to prevent injuries and ensure the health and safety of employees by conducting hazard analysis on an on-going basis.

Area 3: Job cards Reports

•  Responsible for correct completion of job cards and daily shift report
•  Machine condition and audit report
•  Maintenance reports

Area 4: Inspection of equipment’s

•  Conduct regular (scheduled and un-scheduled) inspection of all equipment and initiate work orders if necessary.

Minimum Requirements

•  A qualified Technician with Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
•  At least two (2) year experience in equipment maintenance within a manufacturing organisation (Bottling preferable).

Competencies/Attributes

•  Technical knowledge of equipment maintenance.
•  Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
•  Experience in carrying out routine fixes and maintenance.
•  Ability to do manual work over a long period of time.
•  Good communication and interpersonal skills.
•  Ability to work with minimal supervision.
•  Good planning and organisational skills.
•  High level of Integrity.
•  Relationships and working contacts