Automation Technician – Electrical needed at Mondi Group

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Job title : Automation Technician – Electrical

Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal, Richards Bay

Deadline : November 29, 2024

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Your mission:

  • Overall responsibility for electrical automation technology asset care (maintenance and troubleshooting)
  • Execute defined maintenance strategies/routines, related to industrial electronic equipment
  • Continuous improvement of mill reliability KPI’s related to electrical automation 
  • Keep up to date with, & support the implementation of new technologies
  • Perform Mill wide electrical automation technician standby as required 
  • Coordinate & support plant electrical team with problem problem-solving 
  • Provide input into database of BU electronic failures to facilitate system reliability reviews, skills improvement and quick reference guides for typical technical problems  
  • Engineering Maintenance Execution (including shutdown and Asset Care management).
  • Excellent maintenance execution for large industrial sites.
  • Good understanding of all fields of engineering (mechanical(basic), electrical(expert), instrumentation and automation (expert)) and how to mentor and coach others 
  • Robust technical background in the electrical automation 
  • Prioritise and manage time to achieve consistent results (consistent value adding).
  • Solve complex electrical automation problems (from program debugging to expert knowledge of electrical starters, relays, variable frequency drives, UPS, battery-management-systems etc.)

Your profiles:

  • S4 or National Diploma in Electrical Engineering (Heavy current)
  • BTech would be advantageous
  • 3 to 5 years of solid experience in heavy engineering and production experience in Electrical Automation related to the heavy engineering pulp & paper industry 
  • 1 to 2 years technician-in-training programme would be very advantageous
  • Experienced in Pulp & Paper or equivalent technologies.
  • Excellent understanding of electrical automaton technology including but not limited to VSDs, PLCs, DCS, Motor Control technology, electrical system protection relays, recti-formers, engineering PCs and Servers and basic IT. 
  • Good understanding of industrial communication protocols (Profibus, Profinet, Serial bus communication etc) 
  • Good understanding of Siemens Simatic Manager, TIA system, ABB800 XA, In-Touch SCADA etc
  • Functional Safety Systems, Advanced Process Control & Distributed Control Systems (Valmet DNA DCS, would be advantageous) 
  • Proven experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of electrical automation systems

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