Engineering Internship at Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL)

Job Purpose

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

Responsibilities & 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.
• Assist in upgrading of plant mechanical parts, drawing machine parts and upgrade documentation of machine manuals.
• 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 and Reports

• Responsible for correct completion of job tags & cards, and daily shift report
• Machine conditions and evaluation reports

Area 4: Inspection of equipment’s

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