Control Instrumentation Technician

Staff Solutions Recruitment • Other • Middelburg, South Africa • 7h ago

Job Description:

Provide first line maintenance support to ensure 24 hours coverage in order to enhance plant availability, product quality and cost
Perform combination of Electrical and Instrumentation tasks
Provide a service to production to minimize delay times and solve reoccurring delays
Perform standard and shutdown schedules and tasks
Test spares that have been repaired
Maintain store items (spares) and identify and manage LRUs
Work in close relation with other Instrumentation Techs, Electricians and Millwrights.
Standby duties.
Implementing optimisation and new capital projects.

Job Requirements:

Minimum qualification of N6 diploma, S4 or BTech in Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering with at least 5 years of experience in a metals manufacturing industry: furnaces, hot and cold rolling and or other heavy engineering industries.
The ideal candidate would have done programming and fault finding on Siemens PLCs (Siemens S5, S7, or 1500, TIA portal),
The ideal candidate must have fault finding and programming / commissioning experience on AC and DC variable speed Drives (ABB / Siemens / Nidec)
The ideal candidate would also be able to do programming and fault finding on SCADA Systems (Intouch &WinCC).
Experience on Electrical distribution i.e motor testing and electrical fault finding (525V)
Sound knowledge of process instrumentation and PID control loops
Knowledge of radiation detection systems will be advantage
Knowledge of gas installations as well as ladle and vessel burners will be advantages
Ability to do report writing and data trending or analysis for reliability engineering will be advantages
Ability to work under pressure and meet work deadlines with attention to detail