• 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

Unitrans is seeking to employ a skilled Tyre Bay Strip and Fitter to ensure the smooth operation of our production equipment. The role involves performing maintenance and repairs on mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems to keep equipment running efficiently.

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.

Minimum qualification

• 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