Overview
Maintenance Technician – Production (Plant and equipment workshop) Jobs in Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya at KQ Health
Title: Maintenance Technician – Production (Plant and equipment workshop)
Company: KQ Health
Location: Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Purpose
- Carry out all inspection, repair, modification, rectification, replacement, overhaul and testing tasks on all Aircraft support equipment specific to entire KQ and third party aircraft fleet.
- Carry out all service bulletins on equipment, machinery and tooling in accordance with OEM specifications.
- Carry out fabrication of required equipment, tools and piece parts in accordance with OEM specifications, and engineering orders.
- Carry out all inspection repair and overhaul of all machinery in technical department workshops and hangars.
Responsibilities
- Carry out maintenance, repair, major overhaul, modification and testing tasks on aircraft support equipment components, aircraft tools for optimal TAT and at minimum resource and material usage to ensure continuous availability of serviceable equipment machinery and tooling to both internal and external customers.
- Inspection of aircraft support equipment, workshops machinery and tooling to asses defects as per the appropriate CMM.
- Ensure proper documentation has been done & signed for in order to maintain correct & up to date component history.
- Nil fault /failure rate on Equipment/or machinery released after maintenance repair or overhaul.
- Adhere to the company safety, health & environment policy to maintain company safety records, report incidents/accident occurrences as per company procedures to maintain our safety standards, carry out 5s audits, first aid & fire marshaling drills.
- Carry out security checks as per engineering security document annex8 to maintain our security standards.
Skills
- Basic Knowledge of Aviation Legislation/Regulations
- Knowledge of Industrial Safety Standards.
- Be able to interpret and use appropriate maintenance data.
- Has used the appropriate equipment, technology and/or IT systems to complete day to day work.
- Has knowledge of material specifications – MSDS
Qualifications
- Completed a recognized apprentice or
- Holds relevant KNEC Engineering Diploma or equivalent from a recognized institution.
- Computer Literacy.
- Competence maintenance.
- Demonstrated competence on at least one craft based skill e.g. welding and fabrication, carpentry or electrical wiring.
- 3 years component maintenance experience or 2 years apprentice program.
Additional Information
- Communicate with internal customers to give and receive information on assigned duties.
- Planning and execution of tasks allocated by the supervisor.
- Has demonstrated an understanding of Health and Safety/ risk assessments and their practical application
- Demonstrated basic capability in Standard practices relevant to the work area (e.g. welding, soldering, crimping, machining…etc.)
- Trouble shooting at a task level in accordance with standard operating procedures, under supervision. Escalate as required.
- Make decisions on the requirements for allocated tasks in line with standard operating procedures.
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