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.
