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This position is based in Hulamin Pietermaritzburg.\nDuties & Responsibilities\nRole:\n\nThe role supports maintenance teams in resolving longer-term equipment problems and proactively preventing recurring failures, with a focus on improving machine reliability, performance and throughput. The role provides hands-on technical and reliability support through equipment performance analysis, structured problem solving, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, breakdown support and equipment improvement initiatives.\n\nThe core responsibilities include:\n\nCritical analysis of systems and their performance to eliminate repetitive defects and to enhance overall asset reliability\n\nTo learn and be a key custodian of problem solving and tracking in the department you are assigned to\n\nTo identify, investigate, motivate, and implement changes related to the safe and effective performance of the various machine centres.\n\nTo work closely with the departmental maintenance planner to ensure that equipment reliability tasks are programmed into the CMMS (checks and inspections).\n\nTo provide support to the department’s maintenance team, especially in the event of significant breakdowns\n\nTo have an active management role during outages, assisting the maintenance team in 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