Tyre Fitter

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