INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN (Grabouw area)

Duties And Responsibilities

As part of the Engineering team, you will monitor various technical and mechanical systems, ensuring operation within specified parameters, regular maintenance schedules, and fast identification of non-operation or malfunction. You will accurately log all maintenance performed on equipment and work with operations and production teams to ensure the availability of critical systems, maintaining a well-inventoried reservoir of parts and spares as necessary.

• Conduct instrumentation evaluation and troubleshooting for electrical, pneumatic, electronic as well as programmable logic control (PLC) systems.

• Perform routine maintenance according to planned maintenance schedule and control and do instrument calibrations. • Ensure to commission instrumentation effective following with repair and replacement.

• Involve in evaluation of instrument performance to identify optimization and enhancement opportunities.

• Write programs and draw up electrical drawings for new installations and maintain electrical drawings of plant equipment.

• Compiling service reports and ensuring instrumentation history data is up to date.

• Liaising with Production regarding any critical instrumentation issues and ensuring that the problems are resolved.

• Conduct new installations and implement procedures.

• Assist with training of Production staff on new PLC controlled equipment.

• Ensure cost effective procurement of equipment/electronic spares.

• Ensure that all relevant literature, including guarantees are available.

• Any other legitimate activity as required by the company.

Applicants should meet the following requirements:

• Qualified Instrument Technician with Tertiary qualification in Industrial Electronics.

• Good knowledge of PLC’s preferably Siemens & SCADA knowledge.

• 5 years relevant experience within a manufacturing environment.

• Attention to detail.

• Must have very strong knowledge of instrumentation.

• Electronic drawing knowledge.

• Understand Technical Procedures.

• Excellent written and verbal communication as well as interpersonal skills is essential.

• Computer literacy with general experience and knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.

• Driver’s license with own transport.