• Control the use of resources and operational activities
• Responsible for ensuring that tires used by vehicles, trucks or tractors, and heavy equipment are in good condition for the road and will ensure the safety of vehicle users
• Responsible for the appropriate and more ecological disposal of scrap metal and must repair and replace vehicle components related to tires, whether inner tubes, rims, wheels or others.
• ensure that tires are inflated as specified by their manufacturers, you will stock tires weekly,
• Carrying out road repairs.
• Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles using hand tools.
• Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into drilling, with hand tools.
• Separate tube tires from wheels using rubber hammers and metal bars or mechanical tire changers.
• Unscrew the vehicle’s wheels and remove them, using tire irons and other hand and power tools.
• Assist mechanics and perform other duties as directed.
• Clean the sides of whitewall tires.
• Service trucks to industrial sites to provide services and respond to emergency calls.
• Identify and inflate tires correctly for size and ply.Order tire and tube replacements.
• Apply rubber cement to polished tire casings before the vulcanization process.
• Buff the defective areas of the inner tubes using scrapers.
• Glue boots (tire patches) over ruptures in tire casings using rubber cement.
• Fill the inner tubes and soak them in water to locate leaks.
• Inspect tire casings for defects such as punctures and tears.
• Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and watching for air bubbles.
• Patch pipes with adhesive rubber patches or seal rubber patches on pipes using hot vulcanization plates.
• Prepare wheel rims and drums for reassembly by scraping, grinding or sandblasting.
• Raise vehicles with hydraulic jacks.
• Remount the tires on the wheels.
• Reinstall the wheels on the vehicles.
• Assess tire damage and wear
• Advise the workshop foreman about tires
• Drive vehicles on winches or jacks in preparation for tire removal and repair (driver’s license required)
• Change, repair or install tires, as well as balancing and pressure testing tires
• Test vehicles to diagnose problems and make sure they are fixed
• Check and safely store new tires and remove tires
• Deflate tires, change them using a jack, hand tools and machines, and inflate replacement tires
• Perform repairs outdoors on broken down vehicles
• Use pneumatic wrenches, vices, jacks, winches, and computerized testing equipment
• Using the tire change slide when changing tires

You will prepare, service, adjust, and operate machinery, ensuring quality and production targets are consistently met. In this hands-on position, you’ll troubleshoot production equipment, resolve material and equipment issues to minimise downtime, and handle the mechanical setup and stripping processes. Compliance with safety standards and proactive problem-solving are critical to success in this role.

• Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4
• Transport maintenance/ professional technical training inmechanics

Experience in a similar role

• 3 years or more

Skills

• At least 3 years in the same or similar position
• Knowledge of mandatory health and safety standards at work
• Proactive, confident, and assertive
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver within working hours
• You may have to work on roadside breakdowns in all weathers.
• You will have to lift heavy parts, perhaps alone or using lifting equipment