Junior Instrumentation Engineer - Johannesburg

Requirements:

• • Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering or any other related field.
• • Minimum 2 years' experience in a related field, preferably Cement plant experience.

Skills and Competencies:

• • Good knowledge in the use and maintenance of instrumentation equipment.
• • Strong leadership and people management skills.
• • Commitment to implemented safety and environment regulations.
• • Good data gathering and analysis skills.
• • Baseline problem analysis and solving skills.
• • Creativity and an ability to think out of the box.

Responsibilities:

• • Installation, Testing, Operation & Maintenance, Troubleshooting of Instrumentation equipment.
• • Responsible for trouble-free operation of assigned area to achieve optimum reliability and availability of equipment.
• • Job planning and execution.
• • Maintains the maintenance records of equipment.
• • Implementation of safety measures and compliance of safety guidelines.
• • Material management of assigned area for smooth plant operation.
• • Provides adequate maintenance support to reduce downtime.
• • Implements preventive maintenance schedule.
• • Perform all work order maintenance, troubleshooting, and calibration of plant equipment as directed.
• • Troubleshoot, Inspect, test, maintain, repair, clean, and calibrate instrumentation and solid-state and microprocessor-based control equipment including plant communications, equipment, programmable controllers, distributive control systems, generator excitation equipment, battery chargers, and semiconductor devices.
• • Repair or replace control devices such as switches, photo eyes, proximity sensors, pushbuttons, contractors, motor starters, transmitters, etc. as needed.
• • Install control and measurement instruments on existing or new plant equipment.
• • Use a wide range of test equipment, including recorders, computers, control and tuning modules, PC-based software analyzer programs, oscilloscopes, data analyzers, logistic test equipment, analog and digital multimeters, meggers and other test equipment, while performing tests to identify problems and to maintain and calibrate equipment to performance standards.
• • Make regular inspection rounds of plant instrumentation and control equipment.
• • Assist in developing detailed preventive and predictive maintenance procedures for plant instrumentations and control equipment.
• • Install, build, or modify plant instrument and control equipment as directed by the Instrumentation Engineer or section Head.
• • Troubleshooting, repair and minor programming of various PLC control systems, frequently drives, and other electrical equipment.
• • Participate in plant safety, health and environmental programs and observe safety in accordance with government and company standards.
• • Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Section Head/ Engineers from time to time.