Team Leader Instrumentation- Hay 14 (Internal & External) NTP Maintenance (North West) needed at NECSA

Job Purpose             

• Provide leadership to the NTP Instrumentation artisans and service providers ensuring plant safety, reliability and compliance.

Key Performance Areas

Position Description

• Set performance expectations, overseeing day to day Operations and Leading Team by ensuring Compliance, managing partnerships and driving growth.
• Delivering on Plant availability for Productivity for all Facilities
• Optimization of the NTP Plant by ensuring that the plant is maintained sufficiently, efficiently with good quality and on safely manner and ensuring that compliance certifications are well of document.
• Set performance expectations, overseeing day to day Operations and Leading Team by ensuring Compliance, managing partnerships and driving growth.
• Delivering on Plant availability for Productivity for all Facilities
• Optimization of the NTP Plant by ensuring that the plant is maintained sufficiently, efficiently with good quality and on safely manner and ensuring that compliance certifications are well of document.
• Plan and schedule projects, estimate time and materials, supervise subordinates, maintain records and files and prepare reports.
• Plan and supervise the work of Instrumentation technicians and statutory officer.
• Maintain records of material in warehouse.
• Advise Section head of possible Instrumentation/Statutory problems/breakdowns.
• Inspect work to ensure compliance with standard procedures and instrumentation/statutory assignments.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet schedules.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Assigns daily work to Instrumentation/Statutory Artisans .
• Stand-in/Support Section Head  when required

Preventative Maintenance

• Supervise daily, weekly, monthly, 3 monthly, 6 monthly and annual inspections in terms of the plan of the plant/equipment.
• Ensure documentation completed in terms of inspection lists.
• Request shutdowns from the Production department (customer) as necessary to do inspections.
• Check through statistics the preventative maintenance schedule to be correct and rectify where necessary.

Corrective Maintenance

• Attend to maintenance issues prior to start-up of production.
• Undertake urgent maintenance immediately and other corrective maintenance per job request.
• Ensure availability for standby duty of self and other personnel.

New Installations

• Supervises and coordinates activities of artisans engaged in construction
• Obtain drawings from the Drawing office and issue calibration certificates.
• Liaise with the drawing office to ensure that the drawings are updated to standard
• Liaise with the main inspector for signing off or project leader

Plant upgrades

• Suggestions on how to prevent breakdowns.
• Minimize downtime through new technology.
• Ensure plant reliability through continuous improvement initiatives

Job Requirements

Key Knowledge & Skills

• Technical instrumentation knowledge gained through qualifying as an Instrumentation technician
• Knowledge gained through the Radiation Workers course
• A consistent awareness of the requirements that will ensure a safe working environment
• Knowledge and understanding of quality management and the systems and processes involved
• The ability to analyse situations and to arrive at the best possible solution to guide artisans/Technicians.

Competencies (Job Specific and Behavioral)

• Technical strong background on Electrical /Instrumentation
• Radiation/Nuclear awareness
• Safety Conscious
• Quality Management
• Analytical

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum Qualifications:

• N6/ Diploma as Instrumentation Technician
• Supervisor Qualification Certification
• Mentorship / Certification advantage

Minimum Experience:

• 7 years’ experience as an Instrumentation Technician/Mechanician in an Industrial Plant
• Team leader /Supervisor Experience Advantageous