Electrical Technician

Electrical Technician

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.  At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

The Electrical Technician together with other technicians provides process and technical support to the machine crews in order to maintain and optimize asset process stability and develop crew’s process knowledge to achieve safety, quality and productivity targets.

Key Responsibilities:

Safety

• Ensure compliance to all departmental and plant safety rules and regulations. 
• All non-conformances should be dealt with immediately all unresolved issues must be raised with Asset Leader. 
• Follow the correct WSWP and Process Instruction for all tasks performed. Carry out continual development of process optimization to ensure safety.

Productivity

• To support production within the operation by providing electrical technical support to the production teams.
• To carry out action plans as directed in order to solve problems thereby minimizing electrical delay.
• Assist with change over’s on the asset in order to minimise change over delay
• To continuously work on improvement plans to upgrade/improve the asset performance and capability.
• Ensure all documentation, including drive and PLC data is recorded properly and systematically to provide optimum reliability of the asset.

Maintenance

• To assist with maintenance activities on all electrical equipment and installation.
• To ensure that electrical spares are available and ready for use when required.
• To provide assistance with standardisation, recommendation of changes in maintenance policies, fault finding and problem solving.
• Recommend spares requirements to the Electrical Engineer.
• Provide technical information to maintenance teams detailing work requests for planned and reactive maintenance

Housekeeping

• Maintain 5S housekeeping principles in the department at all times, including all equipment and surrounds. 
• Ensure all unused items are removed from the operating area and stored correctly. 

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• N6 or a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 5 years' experience on high-speed production equipment or FMCG
• Prior high-speed production machine maintenance experience
• Computer Literate
• High level technical and problem-solving skills

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position. 

Employment is subject to verification of local policies.

Primary Location

Cape Town Epping Plant

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time