Position: TYRE TECHNICIAN - Re advertised.
Deadline: 10 Jun 2020.
Date posted: 02 Jun 2020.
Location:Dar es Salaam.
Description:
Position Purpose
We are looking for Tyre Technician to provide maintenance duties in support of company mechanics to ensure vehicles are serviced and maintained in a proper manner.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Perform Duties in a safe and responsible manner
- Change wheels using jacks, lug wrenches, and other hand and power tools
- Inspect Tire casings for defects, such as holes and tears
- Inflate inner tubes and immerse them in water to locate leaks
- Seal punctures in tires using rubber cement to buffed tire casings prior to vulcanization process
- Reassemble tires into wheels
- Balance wheels using required counterweights onto rim
- Identify and inflate tires correctly for the size and ply
- Order replacements for tires and tubes
- Complete paperwork and records for repairs
- Making sure that your working place is always clean
- Branding of tires
- Maintain and make minor repairs to tire handling equipment
- Carry out any other related duties that may be assigned
Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Minimum Technical Trade Certificate, Diploma or Degree
- Minimum 3 years' experience in trucks/heavy equipment workshop as Tyre Technician (replacing all types of tires) and balancing of tires and wheels
- Knowledge of standard practices, methods, tools and materials of tire changing
- Knowledge of the properties of tire types and uses
- Knowledge of the occupational hazards and safety precautions of the trade
- Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions
- Ability to understand heavy manual labor
- Ability to work for extended periods, often under adverse climatic conditions
- Language skills in both English and Swahili preferred