SUMMARY:
Instrumentation Technician
POSITION INFO:
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
To ensure optimum availability and reliability of equipment in support of effective and continuously improved plant operations, which includes but not limited to:
- Instrumentation and technical support services
- Improvement and optimization
- Asset care and performance
- Reporting
- Budget and cost control
- SHERQ adherence and compliance
- Work Ethics
QUALIFICATIONS (Essential unless otherwise indicated)
- Grade 12
- National Diploma: S4 or T3 or N6 with Trade Test in Electrical Engineering or Process Instrumentation
EXPERIENCE (Essential unless otherwise indicated)
- Minimum of five (5) years operational engineering experience as a qualified Instrumentation Technician in an automated plant environment
OTHER REQUIREMENTS (Essential unless otherwise indicated)
- Medically fit
- Driver’s license
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
- Computer Literacy
- Diagnotic
- Functional Knowledge and skills
- Implementation of engineering knowledge to maintain typical instrumentation equipment: Crushers, vibrating Screens, conveyors, stackers, reclaimers, slurry and process water pumps, sample cutters, degrid cyclones, vibrating and apron feeders, hydraulic drives and power packs, Dust suppression and extraction, radio networks, two-way radio’s, networks, Minestar, mining and laboratory equipment, condition monitoring, Loadout stations, weighing equipment, PLC Systems, SCADA systems, optic fibre cables, systems
- Process flow and instrumentation diagrams of the following production processes: Primary and secondary crushers, overland conveyors and ROM stacking, on-grade wash & screening, off-grade wash & screening, beneficiation, high pressure roller crusher, product conveying & stacking, Jigs, Load-Out, process water & slimes handling, sewage plants, asset management; EAMS strategy and business processes
- Management knowledge and skills
- SHEQ Knowledge and skills
- Legal
