Job Purpose

As a tire fitter, you play a crucial role in ensuring vehicles roll smoothly and securely on the roads. Your expertise lies in the careful selection, fitting, and maintenance of tires, catering to a diverse range of vehicles, from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks. You ensure that every tire meets the highest standards of performance and safety.

Responsibilities:

Key Performance Areas

1. Tyre Fitting & Removal

· Mount new tires onto vehicle rims using appropriate machinery and tools.

· Clean and paint rims before fitting tyres.

· Fit wheels on to motor vehicles correctly.

· Match dual wheels correctly.

· Inflate tyres according to manufacturer’s specifications.

· Report any defects to the site supervisor e.g., studs, washers, and wheel nuts.

· Undertakes pressure and torque checks.

· Torque wheel nuts to manufactures specifications.

· Brand tyres

· Apply safety standards.

2. Customer Service

· Advise site supervisor on appropriate action, who subsequently assists the customers.

· Receive customers in a friendly manner and with a smile.

· Always clean and presentable

3. Housekeeping and Asset Management

· Handles tools with care and correctly.

· Ensures work area and yard are always clean.

· Ensures machines & tools are always clean and stored correctly and safely.

· Ensures dressing rooms are always presentable and neat.

· Ensure company property is not damaged.

4. Health and Safety

· Adheres to Health & Safety standards in the workplace and does not endanger other parties.

· Complies with the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act

· Ensure Personal Safety Equipment and facilities provided by the company are in good and clean condition.

5. Documentation

· Correctly complete tyre changes slip for wheel changes and hands them in timely · Prepares survey reports correctly and hands them in timely. · Clocks in and out at correct times as per shift by correctly signing the time register.

6. General · Undertake all reasonable requests and instructions, given verbally or in writing that falls within the parameters of own line of duty.

Qualifications & Experience Required Education, Master, other certification

• Grade 12 Certificate

Skills 

• Basic knowledge of tyre types, sizes, and handling techniques.

• Physical stamina and the ability to lift heavy objects.

• Attention to detail and safety consciousness.

• Forklift or machinery operation certification is a plus.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, physically demanding environment. Experience (years): · Computer literacy

• Experience in the tyre industry will be an advantage. Languages Skills: 

Languages Skills:

• English

• Any local spoken languages