Technician - (C3) at PPC Africa

Job Advert Summary    

• Undertakes planned and unplanned maintenance work on plant equipment, carries out maintenance schedules, carries out standby duties, conducts risk assessments for work to be carried out, ensures the Electrical Engineering K.P.Is are met. Training of Learners [Apprentices & Student on attachment] and Handyman.

Minimum Requirements    
Qualifications

• National Certificate in Instrumentation and Control

Experience

• 2 years in Heavy industry or mining environment

Ideal 

• Ideal time spent in job - 5 years

Knowledge

• Maintenance Fundamentals
• Manufacturing
• Cement industry

Special Requirements

• SAP ERP System
• ONKEY

Duties and Responsibilities    
Business Intelligence

• Complete job-cards correctly and accurately with respect to time, asset classes, sub-classes and failure causes. Submit Asset Care Change suggestions for Continuous Improvement purposes. Liaise with Planning personnel to ensure that workorder feedback is captured correctly.

Functional Strategy and Planning

• Perform proper job and spares planning

Execution of Maintenance

• Conduct electrical work which supports maintenance, diagnostics, repairs and installations of mechanical equipment as per planned and un-planned workorders. Perform planned and un-planned maintenance activities (as per CMMS) in a timeous and cost effective manner to the correct standard. Provide feedback to the Foreman on the execution of work for Continuous Improvement of work methods, tools, standardisation and planning. Perform preliminary failure diagnostics on equipment failures in order to take remedial action. Identify pro-active maintenance opportunities. Create requests for spares and materials and interact with stores issuing personnel. Perform periodic, scheduled Asset Health Checks. Maintain housekeeping standards.

Operational Control

• Ensure that Operational Best Practices (OBP) is adhered to. Complete intangible and tangible time booking accurately. Complete daily checklists for tools and areas of responsibility. Perform capturing of operational data.

Communication and Reporting

• Participate meaningfully in the departmental INVOCOMs. Achieve engineering Key Performance Indicators. Provide input into interdepartmental INVOCOMs. Report factors, incidents and accidents that pose a business risk.

Governance and Risk Management

• Adhere to IMS, legal, statutory and regulatory requirements. Minimise environmental non-conformances. Comply with disciplinary rules, regulations and procedures.

Inventory Management

• Submit requests for non-stock, direct purchases or emergency spares to the Foreman. Minimise working material inventory

Contractor Management

• Interact professionally with external service providers and contractors as required.

Functional  Competencies

• Maintaining and repairing Recorders and Displays
• Maintaining and repairing PLC and SCADA
• Performing data backups on PLC and SCADA systems
• Maintaining and repairing Limit value monitoring
• Constructing and wiring a control panel
• Maintaining and repairing electro mechanical weighing systems
• Maintaining and repairing pneumatically controlled dampers
• Maintaining and repairing electrically controlled dampers
• Maintaining AC frequency invertors
• Maintaining and repairing motion detectors
• Maintaining and repairing pressure monitoring devices
• Maintaining and repairing speed indication systems
• Maintaining and repairing temperature device - Thermocouple
• Maintaining and repairing temperature device - RTD's
• Maintaining and repairing temperature device - Thermowell
• Maintaining and repairing position encoders
• Maintaining and repairing level devices - ultrasonic
• Maintaining and repairing level devices - Electromechanical
• Maintaining and repairing level devices - Capacitance
• Maintaining and repairing level devices - Sound
• Maintaining and repairing flow devices - switches
• Maintaining and repairing flow devices - magflow
• Maintaining and repairing a packer
• Maintaining and repairing CCTV systems
• Read and interpret P&ID drawings
• Maintain and modify PLC programming
• Maintain and diagnose networks

Deadline:15th May,2026