Supervisor Instrumentation - Richards Bay at South32

ABOUT THE ROLE:
This role is a permanent full-time position.

•  As a Supervisor Instrumentation, you will be responsible to lead a team of instrument artisans and be responsible for the execution of Work Management and supervise work execution, inspections, and observations in a safe and sustainable manner. This position will report to the Technical Support Superintendent Process Control & Automation within the maintenance department.

Other key responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to:

•  Supervise activities of the Instrument team according to company procedures and schedules and ensure that all work objectives are safely achieved;
•  Critical to this role is achieving the agreed KPI’s for instrumentation equipment in the plant;
•  The OHSACT and the company’s HSEQ and quality standards to be adhered to with no compromise;
•  A key focus area is to ensure maximum plant availability and operational stability through pro-active management interventions to improve equipment performance;
•  Have a clear understanding of maintenance and calibration schedules that will contribute towards safe and successful work execution;
•  Ensuring effective execution of all maintenance activities during outages and handing over the equipment to production timeously for plant start-ups;
•  Management and development of the instrument team in such a way to ensure a positive IR climate;
•  Continuous engagement with plant stakeholders to ensure instrument maintenance and calibration schedules are valid and adhered to.

ABOUT YOU:
You will have experience and demonstrate capability in the following:

•  A minimum of 5 years instrumentation or automation experience is essential of which at least 1 year must have been in a supervisory capacity;
•  Experience in Allen Bradley PLC systems and programming, ABB Robotics and Wonderware SCADA systems development is critical to this position;
•  Knowledge on CCTV systems would be advantageous;
•  Be prepared to work shifts if needed and perform standby duties from time to time as required by the organization;
•  Computer literacy (MS Office).

Qualifications for this role are:

•   N6 National Diploma with a recognized instrument trade test OR a T3/S4 in an Engineering field.