Open Roles at MECS (Pty) Ltd

• Are you an experienced sales leader with a deep understanding of PLC, SCADA, and automation systems? We’re seeking a dynamic Regional Sales Manager with an Electrical / Instrumentation Engineering degree to drive business growth, expand our market presence, and join a team in delivering cutting-edge automation solutions to a diverse range of clients.
• This is your opportunity to join a leading company at the forefront of the automation industry, where your expertise will make a significant impact.

Qualifications:

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering (preferably in Electrical, Automation, or related fields).
• Proven experience in sales management, with at least 3 years of experience in the PLC, SCADA, or automation industry.
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with a track record of achieving sales targets.
• In-depth knowledge of automation solutions, including PLC and SCADA systems.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• A results-driven approach with a focus on exceeding sales objectives and client satisfaction.

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Requirements:

• Must have at least three years’ experience as a licensed Continuous Miner Operator (Eickhoff H36 & H45 CM and Joy HM31 & HM37 CM) in a production section.
• Must supply proof of previous Operator License.
• A valid Competent B Certificate must be provided.
• A valid Operator Gas Testing must be provided.

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• This role is ideal for a Junior Internal Auditor with the intention to progress in the internal audit profession.
• The position is based in Pretoria.
• You will provide independent, objective assurance and consulting activity, designed to add value and improve the organization's operations.
• The role may focus primarily on the performance of professional internal auditing services that involves, but not limited to conducting performance, operational, financial and compliance audit assignments.

Qualification and experience required:

• A Bachelors degree in Internal Auditing with at least 2 years’ experience in audit;
• Basic knowledge of internal controls;
• Familiarity with accounting and auditing concepts and theory;
• Technical competency in Microsoft Office

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• Responsible for the requirements, design, development, testing and documentation of new and legacy data ingestion, integration, processing, and storage software to meet the requirements of the company's IoT Platform Solution.
• This IoT solution is a big data analytics platform for the mining industry which requires a focus on collecting, processing, contextualising, and managing data assets thus turning it into information, and finally leveraging this information to address the 4 pillars of analytics - descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive.

Responsibilities:

• Data ingestion
• Data integration
• Data processing
• Data storage
• Digital twin management
• Data management and governance

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer/software engineering, computer science
• Masters or doctoral level degree (advantageous)
• 2-5 years’ experience in computer science, software, or computer engineering, applied math, physics, statistics, or related fields.
• Experience with wireless and network communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, GSM, LoRaWAN, Bluetooth, TCP/IP.
• 2-5 years’ experience with data lake and warehousing solutions.
• 2-5 years’ experience with either Python, Java, C++, C#, Sparql , SQL databases.
• 2-5 years’ experience with either Apache Kafka (producers/consumers/connectors), Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, Apache ActiveMQ, MQTT, Modbus, REST API.
• Experience with developing, building and releasing of containerised services and microservice architectures using Docker.
• Experience within big data platforms, structured, unstructured and semi-structure data management.
• Experience with data analytics, machine learning and AI (advantageous)
• Experience with workflow management tools and BPMN eg. Camunda (advantageous)
• Experience with distributed systems and cluseter orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.

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• Conduct lab tests and field trails and work with systems engineers and developers to resolve discrepancies.
• Perform functional, integration and regression testing and defect tracking form discovery to resolution.
• Conduct manual and automation testing.
• Manage field trial phase of products.
• Finalize documentation for release.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or relevant technical qualification
• 3+ years of QA/Testing
• Experience with all aspects of testing including test planning, test design, test execution, and test evaluation.
• Experience with Development (Alpha testing) and Operational (Beta testing) testing and evaluation, in staging and production environments.
• Experience with software development life cycles (Agile & V-Model) and system testing methodologies (Unit Testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Integration Testing, Interface Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, UAT, OAT).
• Experience with developing test procedures and scenarios using manual methods or automated test tools (such as TestLink, Jenkins, Postman).
• Experience with creating and maintaining requirements traceability matrixes.
• Experience with using defect tracking tools such as Jira.
• Experience with Gitlab.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerised software applications (Docker).
• Experience using Windows operating systems such as Windows 7, 8 and 10.
• Experience using Linux and Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
• Experience using VMWare or Workstation or Player.
• Experience with creating and maintaining requirements traceability matrixes.
• In depth understanding of network infrastructure and different network configurations.
• Experience in the set up of network infrastructure.