Job description
INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN (2 VACANCIES)
Acacia Mining seeks to employ two (2) Instrumentation Technicians based at North Mara Mine. These roles report to the Electrical & Instrumentation First Line Leader and the role holders will be accountable to install, maintain and repair instrumentation and control systems at the Gold Plant, Water Treatment Plant and Power Generation Facility.
This is a permanent role, with the work roster being six weeks on and three weeks off.
CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Ensure safe work practices by attending compulsory safety courses and meetings, use of required PPE, incident/ accident/ hazard reporting and ensuring total adherence to all Safety, Occupational Health and Environmental Policies, as well as other policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Conduct weekly Planned Task Observations (PTO’s) and Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) interactions.
- Assist with accident/ incident investigations as required and ensure that Marsh Audit issues raised are closed out.
- Conduct repair and preventative maintenance on instrumentation and process control systems to achieve production and cost targets.
- Increase Plant availability by ensuring a reduction in Plant downtime due to Electrical & Instrumentation faults.
- Ensure that 95% or higher Planned Maintenance (PM) compliance is maintained.
- Ensure cost management in day-to-day activities for the Electrical & Instrumentation section.
- Ensure that all assigned projects are completed as per schedule:
- Fire detection systems installation and commissioning
- CV-04 belt scale installation
- Gold Plant to WTP wireless Ethernet communications
- CV-10 metal detector installation and commissioning
- Grasshopper Project
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
Qualification Requirements:
Recognised Trade Certificate in Industrial Instrumentation
Degree/ Diploma Light Current Electrical Engineering will be advantageous
Certified PLC Programmer (Allen Bradley) and or SCADA Programmer/ Configurator (Citect) will be ideal
Experience Requirements:
Minimum 5 years post trade test experience
Skills / Knowledge Requirements:
- Industrial Field Instrumentation selection & configuration, maintenance & faultfinding
- Maintenance Systems (Pronto, FlowCentric etc.)
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, process optimization, and problem solving skills
- PID Loop Tuning
- Written & Verbal communication ation skills
- Working with hand tools
- Computer literacy
Acacia Mining has a strong commitment to environmental, health and safety management and offers equal employment opportunities to qualified men and women.
Applicants are invited to submit their CV’s/Resume’s (indicating the role title in the subject line) via e-mail to: jobs@acaciamining.com
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