Instrumentation Technician

 

The instrumentation technician 

is responsible for dedicating technical and operational systems support. The role holder will carry a legal appointment applicable to the role. Responsibilities include ensuring the maintenance and optimization of systems to ensure that the capacity of the production process is maximized. Employees in this position perform assignments of some complexity and generally requiring innovative ideas and complex instrumentation. Work involves performing skilled, technical work in the design, installation, testing, calibration, maintenance, and repair of process control, telemetry, and data acquisition systems and subsystems used in the provision of services to the production and engineering facilities of the plant. This will include planning and controlling activities in meeting the above requirements

Roles & Responsibilty

• Conduct and coordinate regular safety meetings.
• Adhere to safety procedures and PPE requirements.
• Comply with organisational and legislation safety requirements by maintaining appropriate practices, standards, and procedures.
• Identify and stop unsafe work practices.
• Report any safety related issues.
• Ensure good safety performance.
• Ensure all legal documents are up to date.
• Assist the foreman with capital and budget utilisation.
• Assign resources to tasks.
• Comply with work orders.
• Attend production, engineering, budget, and project planning meetings.
• Comply with scheduled and planned tasks.
• Ensure achievement of production targets through planning, leading, organising, and controlling tasks.
• Prioritise tasks and functions.
• Perform delegation and allocation of tasks.
• Perform sectional visits and maintenance observations.
• Conduct daily maintenance tasks (scheduled and unscheduled).
• Perform critical task analysis.
• Follow up on tasks and comply with deadlines.
• Identify faults and report it to foreman.
• Report on daily section performance.
• Perform maintenance of the control solution – including the PLC cabinets and network infrastructure.
• Conduct control solution performance management – including the alignment to the control solution standard, alignment to the performance requirement of the Company, and plant availability.
• Conduct fault finding and repairs on breakdowns in the plant.
• Maintain the PLC program, PLC hardware, PLC panels, Scada computer and Scada program.
• Execute small improvement projects – including drawings, installations, labelling and programming.
• Ensure the ISO system is up to date and correct.
• Provide daily feedback to foreman and engineer.
• Complete safety officer’s report.
• Perform all duties instructed/required by supervisor which might not be related to job functions – if it is safe to do so.
• Adhere to health, safety, and security regulations.
• Ensure that good housekeeping is maintained.
• Maintain and operate plant and equipment to eliminate unplanned delays. Respond to delays in a manner that will reduce the duration and impact on the plant.
• Ability to find faults through the system, problem solving with or without drawings.

Experience 

 

• National Diploma in Process instrumentation and Control
• Valid driver’s license and own transport
• Computer literate
• PLC and SCADA training is preferable.
• At least 3+ years’ post qualification experience as an instrumentation technician in a heavy industrial or mining environment.
• Previous experience in maintaining instrumentation and process control equipment suchas level, pressure and flow measurements, scales, density, control loops, valves, and cylinders, etc.
• Experience and ability to program, set up and commission PLC and SCADA systems
• Experience in calibrations of various field instruments.
• Working experience on Schneider PLCs, PL7 Pro and Unity software • Working experience on Adroit
• Working experience in programming and fault finding with related to Profi-bus, Modbus and Device-net enthernet/IP and Asi Systems.
• Experience with networks
• Ability to read drawings and perform fault finding on circuits and control loops.
• Ability to fault find and interface modern electrical control and communication equipment.
• Previous experience with installation, basic set up and fault finding on variable speed drives and soft starters and interfacing electrical equipment with control and instrumentation systems.
• Experience in performing statutory inspections on instrumentation plant and equipment.

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