Tyre Fitter at Bridgestone Europe NV/SA in Botswana

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

Tasks

Performance Indicator

1. Tyre fitting and removal

• Correctly lift motor vehicle

• Utilise correct tools for the job

• Correctly fit tyres to rim

• Fit wheels on to motor vehicles correctly

• Match dual wheels correctly

• Report any defects to the Site Supervisor e.g. studs, washers, and wheel nuts.

• Inflate tyres according to manufacturer’s specifications

• Apply safety standards

• Brand tyres

• Clean and paint rims before fitting tyres

• Torque wheel nuts to manufactures specifications

• Appropriate and timely communication with relevant parties

• Undertakes pressure and torque checks

• No I.O.D`s

• Scrap tyre analysis: No bead damage to tyres

• Scrap tyre analysis: No bead damage to tyres

• Mismatch report: No mismatched duals

• Mechanical irregularity reports: Report all mechanical defects

• Pressure analysis: No tyres in accelerated wear and high risk section

• OHSA: No I.O.D`S

• Branding register/cr1/purchases: All tyres must be branded on both sides.

• No rust visible on rims

• Torque sheet: All vehicles must be torqued

• Pressure and torque sheets completed

2. Customer service

• Advise and assist customers

• Receive customers in a friendly manner and with a smile

• Always clean and presentable

• No complaint about poor behaviour

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

• Responsible for ensuring company property is not damaged

• Audit report: All pneumatic tools oiled, torque wrench unwound

• Audit report: Neat and clean

• Audit report: Work area safe, neat and clean

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.

• OHSA: complies with the occupational health and safety regulations. No preventable I.O.D`S

• Audit: using trestles when lifting vehicles, use of the safety cage when inflating, safety clothing worn

5. Documentation

• Correctly complete tyre change slips for wheel changes and hands them in timeously

• Prepares survey reports correctly and hands them in timeously

• Clocks in and out at correct times as per shift by correctly signing the time register

• Vehicles due for inspection: No vehicles not inspected for the selected period without written request.

6. General

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

• Willing to “go the extra mile” inn achieving objectives

Minimum selection criteria

Personal attributes

• Grade 12 or equivalent

• Basic English literacy

• Honesty

• Integrity

• Team player