Control Instrumentation Technician

Job Description: Provide first line maintenance support to ensure 24 hours coverage in order to enhance plant availability, product quality and costPerform combination of Electrical and Instrumentation tasksProvide a service to production to minimize delay times and solve reoccurring delaysPerform standard and shutdown schedules and tasksTest spares that have been repairedMaintain store items (spares) and identify and manage LRUsWork in close relation with other Instrumentation Techs, Electricians and Millwrights.Standby duties.Implementing optimisation and new capital projects.Job Requirements: Minimum qualification of N6 diploma, S4 or BTech in Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering with at least 5 years of experience in a metals manufacturing industry: furnaces, hot and cold rolling and or other heavy engineering industries.The ideal candidate would have done programming and fault finding on Siemens PLCs (Siemens S5, S7, or 1500, TIA portal),The ideal candidate must have fault finding and programming / commissioning experience on AC and DC variable speed Drives (ABB / Siemens / Nidec)The ideal candidate would also be able to do programming and fault finding on SCADA Systems (Intouch &WinCC).
Experience on Electrical distribution i.e motor testing and electrical fault finding (525V)Sound knowledge of process instrumentation and PID control loopsKnowledge of radiation detection systems will be advantageKnowledge of gas installations as well as ladle and vessel burners will be advantagesAbility to do report writing and data trending or analysis for reliability engineering will be advantagesAbility to work under pressure and meet work deadlines with attention to detail