Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance of the OSHACT and other legal requirements.
• Manage and support OPEX and CAPEX projects
• To maintain and repair equipment to ensure operation is safe and reliable manner and is suitable for production requirements.
• Ensure that maintenance is carried out according to OEM guidelines and by finding ways to improve the reliability of equipment and determining risk areas
• Have clear understanding of automation and have good knowledge of logical control systems
• Constantly challenge the status quo and suggest areas for improvement.
• Involved in annual budgets for the engineering department, ensuring the department achieve planned production requirements within agreed budgets.
• Maintain the preventative maintenance system ensuring all recommended manufacture maintenance schedules are adhered to. Review maintenance schedules.
• Maintain regular inspections of equipment to minimize downtime ensure relevant spares are available and controlled
• Control the maintenance budget as per set requirements.
• Ensure that all Electrical and Instrumentation drawing are kept up to date.
• Participate in maintenance shutdown
• Carries out standby duties as per standby procedures

Qualifications and Experience:

• BSc. BEng. BTech Electrical or Electronic Engineering.
• Familiar with SANS and Eskom electrical standards
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in manufacturing
• Experience with ABB DC and AC Drives and ACS drives
• Metso/Valmet DCS and QCS systems
• Electrical Engineering aspects
• Instrumentation engineering aspects
• Electrical design principles