Job Title: Maintenance Technician
Job Description
A maintenance technician is responsible for repairing, maintaining and testing a variety of machines and equipment. They work with different forms of machinery and all of their functions. Our service technicians/maintenance professionals are considered an integral part of the front line and are the face of our business.
They demonstrate being proactive to achieve the best possible outcome for the organization and the customer.
The responsibilities of a maintenance technician include:
1. Diagnosing, servicing and troubleshooting machines, equipment, instruments and control systems.
2. Repairing and replacing faulty or defective parts and wiring.
3. Reassembling, testing operating and adjusting equipment.
4. Installing, servicing and repairing electronic instruments and control systems.
5. Installing, servicing and repairing GPS instruments and control systems.
6. Diagnosing, overhauling, repairing, tuning maintaining and testing various diesel/petrol & gas-powered vehicles.
7. Detecting mechanical and electrical faults by using instruments that check the following: charging and starting circuitry, batteries, ignition, and ignition timing, fuel injection systems and speed control, cylinder compression, engine condition, braking efficiency, wheel balance and alignment, air conditioning, hydraulic systems and air conditioning systems along with any other functions that are specific to the line of business.
8. Repairing and maintaining the hydraulic components of various diesel/petrol and gas engines that are used to power attachments such as hoists, booms, scrapes, buckets, and augers etc.
9. Using oxy, electric, TIG and MIG welding, hand fitting or machining processes to repair or replace faulty parts.
10. Carrying out field servicing of equipment and machines on a day-to-day basis and also from time to time intra/interstate travel may be required for extended periods of which suitable notice will be given.
11. Carrying out all work in accordance with the organizational policy or as directed by the workshop/service coordinator.
12. Accounting for all spare parts used/not used on jobs by entering them on the job cards that are allocated to each job by the workshop/service coordinator.
13. Completing all paperwork associated with each job, timely (at the conclusion of each job) and accurately and submitting it in accordance with standard procedures.