Senior Instrumentation Engineer

SUMMARY:
Senior Instrumentation Engineer - required by our Client, a global engineering partner in energy, chemicals and resources striving to become a solutions provider leading partners and societies to a more sustainable future.  The position will be based in Limpopo near Musina and requires 8 years' plus instrumentation experience with essential knowledge of mining and EPCM environments.

POSITION INFO:
General Purpose of the Role:

• Works independently at an advanced level completing a wide variety of assignments through the application of advanced engineering theories, techniques, and practices.
• Has substantial knowledge of relevant regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices for the control, development, and application of deliverables.
• May provide discipline supervision for one larger or one or more smaller projects.

• Assists business development activities by maintaining an up-to-date personal profile and resume.
• Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
• Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers.
• May be called upon to lead all or part of the technical proposal.

• Supports the business by communicating team resource loading and skill requirements to a direct supervisor or the Discipline Manager.
• Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences.
• Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training.
• Assists in the employee performance review process.
• Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team.
• Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes.
• Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues.
• Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.

• Ensures team member adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
• Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
• Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.

• May participate in project execution strategy and planning.
• Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, assists the team to meet expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success.
• Implements innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.
• Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability.
• Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives and participates in squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.

• Gathers data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, etc.
• Crafts recommendations and creates final documentation.
• Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
• Creates final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval. May review similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports.

• Incorporates information from multiple sources into equipment/material specifications, data sheets, testing requirements, and material requisitions.
• Participates in bid clarifications, conducts bid evaluations, completes inter-discipline vendor information review and approval, and finalizes other certification activities.
• Reviews similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports.

• Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and ensures that requirements are incorporated into engineering/design.
• Works with site personnel to resolve issues.
• May create plans or documents that supports construction, testing, commissioning, operations, maintenance, or decommissioning.
• May provide or lead on-site support for construction, commissioning, or turn over.

• A 4- or 5-year technical degree in science or engineering.
• Trained leadership and project execution.
• Actively licensed with local engineering governing body (e.g. ECSA).

• 8 years’ plus relevant discipline experience – a strong background in discipline work and competent understanding of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards and industry standard practices.
• Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content.
• Desirable:
  • Experience working in project leadership. Specialised expertise in one or more areas of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards and industry standard practices.

• Systems and Tools (Essential) – MS Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams,
• Systems and Tools (Desirable) – MS Access and PowerPoint as well as proficiency in speciality engineering or design tools, analytics and modelling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.

• Assume hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements.
• Drive Safe and Sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL.
• Role-model a commitment to personal well-being and a pro-active approach to continuously improving health, safety and environmental performance.

• Interpersonal - Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
• Teamwork - Enjoys working in a small high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, able to prioritise workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals.
• Action orientated - Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence and tenacity. Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is "right the first time.”
• Intellectual capacity - Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors.