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Job Title: Instrumentation Artisan
Closing date: 27 March 2020
Operating entity: SA Ops: Secunda Synfuels Operations
Role category: Operations
ABOUT THE ROLE / PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To provide effective instrumentation maintenance in ensuring plant availability and stability to the Oxygen Plants. To be part of the instrumentation maintenance team with the responsibility of doing instrumentation maintenance. Assistance to the project group with commissioning actions. Responsible for doing fault-finding on instrumentation in the Oxygen environment.
Secunda Synfuels Operations (SSO) operates the world’s largest coal-to-liquids (CTL) facility and produces synthesis gas (syngas) through coal gasification and natural gas reforming, using Sasol’s unique and proprietary Fischer-Tropsch technology to manufacture synthetic fuel components, pipeline gas and chemical feedstock.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- In line with Sasol’s commitment to Employment Equity, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. We actively encourage and welcome persons with disabilities to apply.
- In addition to a pre-employment medical examination, some positions may require a physical fitness assessment as part of the normal pre-employment selection criteria.
- Driver’s license
QUALIFICATIONS
- National Senior Certificate (with English, Mathematics and Physical Science) / N3 (equivalent to Gr 12 / Matric)
- NQF 4
EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 2 Years Instrument maintenance experience
- Exposure to TDC, FSC, Experion, and Anti-surge systems (Moore Systems, Siemens S7, CCC)
- Instrument maintenance experience in a chemical/industrial environment preferred
- Experience on Petro-Chemical equipment would be an added advantage
KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
- Perform maintenance on different types of field equipment
- Knowledge of a variety of instrumentation
- Perform standby duties and work overtime as and when required
- Share and implement best practices
- Be self-driven and take ownership of related plants
- Be committed to job at hand
- Must be able to work at heights and in confined spaces
- Permit to work acceptance (As recipient/executor) where applicable
- Knowledge of measuring instruments and plant instrumentation
- Oxygen Plant experience
Partnership Leadership
- Ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders
- Establish and build relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes
- Build and establish core capabilities through partners and peers
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Required outputs
- Maintenance on instrument equipment
- Fault finding on equipment
- Prepared to work overtime when needed
- Prepared to do standby
- Good housekeeping
- Personal Development in trade
- Conduct instrument modifications / upgrades on existing instrument installations
- Conducting loop checks
- Conduct Technical inspections
- Ensure continuous equipment availability through effective maintenance and calibration of instrumentation equipment
- Ensure safety on area of responsibility
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Closing date: 26 March 2020
Operating entity: SA Ops: Secunda Synfuels Operations
Department: Gas Production Mechanical
Secunda Synfuels Operations (SSO) operates the world’s largest coal-to-liquids (CTL) facility and produces synthesis gas (syngas) through coal gasification and natural gas reforming, using Sasol’s unique and proprietary Fischer-Tropsch technology to manufacture synthetic fuel components, pipeline gas and chemical feedstock.
ABOUT THE ROLE / PURPOSE OF THE JOB
- To cost effectively ensure the availability of safe and reliable assets to production.
- Effective maintenance of the plant to ensure availability and reliability of the plant equipment and facilities by focusing on the safety, integrity, schedule and cost drivers.
- Maintenance responsibilities will be coordinated through preventative and corrective maintenance scheduling.
- Responsible to comply with statutory compliance.
- Ensure compliance and safe production according to legal standards
- Create and maintain an operating unit by building and sustaining teams
- As required, to ensure effective and efficient services and contractor management
- Effective maintenance shutdown scoping, tactical execution and management.
- Execute the Gas Production renewals and improvement plan.
- This will require alignment and integration between Gas Production areas, Technical, Mechanical Engineering and Group Technology.
FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS
Core elements of the role
- Ensure that sustainable business processes and practices are in place to manage Gas Production shutdowns, renewals and small projects.
- Sustain and improve a complex Gas Production shutdown and asset renewal management process by integrating functional contributions in Operations.
- Outputs must be an overall higher availability of critical units to support Gas Production.
- Drive, co-ordinate and monitor shutdown front end loading in Gas Production.
- Ensure front-end loading and full shutdown readiness.
- Execute Gas Production shutdowns as part of an integrated team for each area.
- Attain benchmark adherence to plans.
Manage cost of availability
- Shutdown and renewals achieved within budget.
- Develop and implement appropriate shutdown and small project benchmarks and monitoring tools.
Leadership and Strategic Direction
- Translation and execution of the business strategy; objectives and plan into action for shutdowns, renewals and small projects.
- Co-ordination between Operations, functions and Group Technology.
- Achievement of improved Clean Fuels mission critical plants.
- Co-ordination and support for asset owners.
- Compliance to the long term life cycle management plans.
- Demonstrate One Sasol behaviour. Ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain.
- Manage multi-level interfaces and integrates effectively. Interact with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage operations knowledge by transforming, packaging, transferring and maintaining operations knowledge.
- Lead in establishing and continuously improving shutdown best practices, systems, aligning the right skilled resources to work with the right issues.
- Lead in continuous performance improvements within his/hers areas of responsibilities, including Health Safety and Environment.
- Report to Senior Manager on performance, such as systems availabilities, planned maintenance shutdowns, planning of maintenance need including budget needs.
- Asset availability.
- OEE trend over time.
- Adherence to improvement plan.
- Provide a succession plan for direct reports and strategic positions.
- Direct report competence against desired competence.
- People engagement.
- Absenteeism.
- Vacancies.
- People Turnover.
- FTE productivity.
SHE Performance
- Manage shutdown and small project risks by making sure that all risks are identified, analysed and mitigated to.
- Acceptable levels.
- Managing and auditing of critical controls.
- Statutory compliance per plant.
Asset Management:
- Manage asset life cycle and plan execution.
- Input into 5 year rolling capital plan.
- Manage Shutdown spares and materials.
- Oversee the management of Shutdown and small project planning.
- Adherence to shutdown schedule.
Technology management at functional unit level, that includes:
- Liaison with technology license holder
- Benchmarking optimal solutions and practices.
- Managing implementation.
- Shutdown management.
- Original Equipment Manufacturers adhere to requirements.
- Adherence to licensor agreement.
- Shutdown performance measures.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
In addition to a pre-employment medical examination, some positions may require a physical fitness assessment as part of the normal selection criteria.
Qualifications
- B.Eng. / B.Sc. Eng. / B. Tech (Eng.) (All Mechanical)
Experience
- A Government Certificate of Competency will be highly valued but is not a requirement
- Minimum of 5 years Maintenance Management Experience
- At least 8 years total relevant Petrochemical experience
KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
Leadership
Self-mastery
- Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.
Partnership Leadership
- Influential: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes.
- Collaborative: Builds Teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
People leadership
- Inspirational: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation.
- Builds Talent: Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
Business Leadership
- Business-focused: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement.
- Results-focused: Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
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