Electrical and Instrumentation Technician

SUMMARY:
Our client, an electrical and automation engineering company, based in the Northern Suburbs is looking for an Electrical and Instrumentation Technician to join their team.

POSITION INFO:
REQUIREMENTS

• Instrumentation and Electrical Qualification – could be red seal only
• Electrical and Instrumentation Technician – 3-5 years
• Fibre Optic Splicing - 2 yrs experience
• EC&I industry knowledge / experience
• Basic Project Management skills (advantageous)

• Managing projects, liaising with clients, vendors, contractors, suppliers for quotes, procurement, ordering and collecting of spares, onsite job completion.
• Calibrating, installation, maintenance, commission, fault finding and addressing day to day technical issues on a variety of field instrumentation and lab instrumentation equipment namely flow, pressure, differential pressure transmitters, differential.
• Pressure (flow meters), temperature, level (Radar, Ultrasonic, pressure, DP cell), wireless, radio, valves.
• Servicing ABB breakers from 1600A to 5000A, Drives, soft starters, HV switchgear, change-over switches, Allen Bradley Smart relays, Allen Bradley smart overloads, single and 3 phase generators, motors, plugs, dosing pumps (Grundfos & Sera), submersible pumps, Lights, switches, joints.
• Planned and unplanned electrical maintenance.
• Commissioning and upgrades of multiple plants namely, FMCG, alcohol, juice, solar farms, data centres, quarries, Tiger brands, dairy and Wastewater treatment works.
• Programming of Siemens S700 PLC’s using TIA Portal, IFM PLC’s, Deep Sea controllers, HMI’s.
• Testing equipment used namely Megger, multimeter, Fluke Data loggers, milliamp source, Fibre optics splicing machine, OTDR, VFL, Light, source, 4-20mA source / tester, fluke thermowell Solar (Sunsynk, Huawei).
• Programming of Deep-Sea controllers, HMI’s, PLC’s.
• Minor programming with TIA.
• Profibus, profinet, ethernet, ASI interface, IO Link.
• Commission, troubleshoot and calibrate control and instrumentations systems.
• Use software to download programmes and to perform IO testing.
• Perform loop and alarm testing.
• Use electrical systems for fault finding to find a resolution.
• Perform safety system testing in line with FAT testing.
• Complete all relevant documentation of testing and commissioning records.
• Support and perform witnessed testing for clients/third parties.
• Feedback issues or opportunities in order to facilitate continuous improvement.
• Record test results and failure accurately, identifying faults and correct as required.
• Ensure faults are to be logged and recorded. All changes will need to be tracked and auditable.
• Feedback concerns and failures to the relevant teams.
• Follow all quality control plans with an excellent level of understanding throughout.
• Use and work with logic flow diagrams, P & ID and any other information required.
• Communicate when required with key stakeholders as well as any other departments.
• Prioritise workloads dependent on project and business needs.
• Visit sites when required to complete testing and fault finding.
• Champion all things relating to Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery. This will include process improvements and the elimination of waste/inefficiencies.