Instrumentation and Control Technician at Watershed Consulting

Overview: Responsible to maintain and optimise all electrical and C&I systems in responsible area, within budget, by managing breakdowns, processes and equipment, spares, procedures and quality files and documents.

Duties:

• 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 delay’s
• Perform standard and shutdown schedules and tasks
• Test spares that have been repaired
• Maintain store items (spares) and identify and manage LRU’s
• Work in close relation with other Instrumentation Techs, Electricians and Millwrights
• Standby duties
• Implementing optimisation and new capital projects

Qualifications and requirements:

• N6 diploma, ND 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.
• Programming and fault finding on Siemens PLC’s (Siemens S5, S7, or 1500, TIA portal),
• Must have fault finding and programming / commissioning experience on AC and DC variable speed Drives (ABB / Siemens / Nidec)
• 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