Chemical Engineer

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POSITION INFO:

Position: Chemical Engineer

Location: Pretoria

Salary: Market-related depending on qualifications and experience

Closing date: End Feb 2024

Our client is seeking a chemical engineer to assist with design, troubleshooting, as well as technical sales assistance. The position will require a dynamic problem solver, with good time and people management skills.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design wastewater and potable water treatment plants. This includes:

  • Motivating design changes made.
  • Preparing design documentation, e.g., Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams, Functional Design Specifications, Equipment Lists, etc.
  • Building models and simulations to aid with design.
  • Generating accurate bill of quantity lists to aid in procurement.
  • Ensuring the latest and most applicable equipment is used in standard designs.

• Provide technical assistance to the maintenance team. This will entail:

  • Reviewing maintenance schedules.
  • Ensuring that plant data is collected efficiently and effectively.
  • Curating, or overseeing the curation of, the plant data.
  • Ensuring that wastewater and potable water treatment plants are performing against set general guidelines. This will involve the analysis of onsite data and providing operational changes to be implemented.
  • Writing monthly maintenance reports analyzing the performance of a wastewater or potable water treatment plant.

• Conduct key performance tests on water and wastewater treatment systems.

• Provide technical assistance to the sales team. This will include attending design clarification meetings, aiding in tender document preparation, and solving problems for provisional clients.

• Set up and carry out detailed commissioning procedures, ensuring that installed equipment adheres to the design specifications.

• Continuously improve the systems by introducing new technologies or equipment.

• Build supply chain relationships with equipment suppliers.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in engineering (BEng in Chemical Engineering).
• 2 years of industry experience.
• Clear understanding and competency with the design procedure.
• Good problem-solving skills under pressure.
• Experience with using Microsoft Word and Excel (including Visual Basic).
• Experience with using CAD software (for Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams).
• Experience with an additional programming language (Python, C, etc.) will be favored.
• Experience in the water and wastewater industry will be favored.

By submitting your information and application you hereby confirm:
1. That you have no objection to us retaining your personal information in our database for
future matching/ POPI Policy.
2. Due to the nature of the position, that we can do an ITC check if our client is interested in your CV.
3. That the information you have provided to us is true, correct, and up to date.

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