Graduate Maintenance Systems & AI Development Engineer

Introduction

Haggie Steel Wire Rope is seeking a Graduate Maintenance Systems & AI Development Engineer that will  work directly with senior engineering leadership and software developers to design, build, and implement a next-generation maintenance and asset management platform while simultaneously establishing the foundational asset management structures required for world-class maintenance practices.

Duties & Responsibilities

Asset Management Development

• Develop and maintain equipment asset registers.

• Assist in building plant asset hierarchies and master equipment trees.

• Collect and verify equipment technical data from production areas.

• Develop equipment criticality assessments.

• Assist in creating Bills of Materials (BOMs) for maintenance.

• Establish maintenance task libraries and preventive maintenance strategies.

• Support reliability improvement initiatives.

Maintenance Systems Development

• Gather user requirements from maintenance and production personnel.

• Document maintenance workflows and business processes.

• Assist with design and testing of CMMS/EAMS functionality.

• Translate engineering requirements into software development specifications.

• Participate in system configuration, deployment, and user acceptance testing.

• Develop dashboards, reports, and KPI monitoring tools.

AI and Digitalisation

• Identify opportunities where AI can improve maintenance performance.

• Assist in developing AI-supported maintenance workflows.

• Support development of predictive maintenance capabilities.

• Build datasets required for future machine learning applications.

• Assist in implementing mobile inspection and maintenance solutions.

• Evaluate emerging technologies for maintenance optimisation.

Reliability Engineering Support

• Analyse equipment performance and failure data.

• Support root cause failure investigations.

• Assist with maintenance strategy optimisation.

• Monitor maintenance KPIs including:

• MTBF

• MTTR

• Planned Maintenance Percentage

• Schedule Compliance

• Asset Availability

• OEE-related metrics

Data Management

• Capture and clean maintenance data.

• Develop equipment coding standards.

• Create standard operating procedures and work instructions.

• Ensure data integrity within the maintenance system.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Minimum qualification required

• Grade 12/Matric (Essential).

• BEng, BSc Eng, in: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering or any other related field.

Experience and Skills & Knowledge required

• 0 - 5 years working experience.

• Graduate applications encouraged.

• Exposure to maintenance environments will be advantageous.

• Knowledge of:

• Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS/EAMS)

• Reliability Engineering principles

• Asset Management concepts

• Data Analytics

• AI tools and applications

• Microsoft Power Platform

• Excel and Power BI

• C#.net

• Exposure to any of the following would be advantageous:

• Python

• SQL

• SYSPRO

• Database design

• AI-assisted software development

• Machine Learning fundamentals

Package & Remuneration

Market Related.