Senior Instrument Technician at Anglo American

Job Description

As part of this team, you will be expected to successfully manage these duties:

• Management of the equipment within the process control domain
• Best practice for instrumentation developed within relevant legal and safety frameworks
• Audit high risk and safety critical areas
• Analyse and identify problems on the current control solution
• System trouble shooting and hardware problems resolution
• Support on existing instrumentation, networks and hardware
• Calibration and maintenance of all equipment within the control solution

This position is in the Engineering department at a D1 level, reporting into the Instrument Specialist.

Qualifications

To join this team, you will have the following qualification:

• ND: Electrical (LC) or NQF level 5 equivalent

In order to be successful in this role, your experience will include:

• 3 years relevant work experience - including faultfinding on instruments
• Experience with Siemens Step7 programming, Scada systems (IFIX / WinCC)
• Extensive experience on DCS system (PCS7)
• Profibus DP and PA network diagnostics and faultfinding
• ASI networks configuration and programming.
• Experience on historian database e.g. PI.
• You will have experience in Process Instrumentation in a smelter environment.
• This role requires you to be on standby, which will include shift work
• Valid drivers licence with your own transport
• Registered as a Professional Engineering Technician with ECSA would be an advantage
• English literate
• Advanced computer literacy
• Knowledge of applicable laws, standards and specifications

Closing Date:10th October 2020