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Air Products South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Controls and Instrumentation Technician

Vanderbijlpark

FULL TIME

October 14, 2024

The above vacancy exists at our On-Sites, Vanderbijlpark Facility, reporting to the Instrumentation Manager. Suitably qualified candidates who meet the requirements of this role are invited to apply for this vacancy.

Overview & Key Responsibilities

The Controls and Instrumentation Technician will be responsible for instrumentation maintenance on all Air Products facilities. The key responsibilities of the role include but not limited to:
1. Maintain all plant instrumentation and controls, including troubleshooting, installation and repairs.
2. Ensuring strict adherence to Health & Safety protocols, including contractor management in line with AP health and safety requirements;
3. Responsible for Control System Engineering;
4. Actively manage plant projects when required to do so in line with AP best practices;
5. Ensuring effective and efficient communication.
6. Assist in providing support to Operations teams to solve and resolve process operating problems including, plant efficiency, reliability, and operability issues;
7. Implement and maintain advanced control initiatives;
8. Improves productivity of process operations by implementation of advanced controls and IP 21 changes.

Essential Requirements

1. A minimum of Grade 12 qualification;
2. Must be Instrumentation Red Seal Trade tested or have a relevant technical qualification (S4);
3. Must have 5 years of experience on heavy industry Instrumentation and Control equipment;
4. Must have 3 years PLC/DCS experience on one or more of the following systems, Allen Bradley PLC’S, Siemens PCS7 or ABB 800XA;
5. Be proficient with Aspen IP21, DMC or similar;
6. Must have project management experience;
7. Willing to work overtime as and when required;
8. Ability to work collaboratively with plant operators, process engineers and plant management;
9. Knowledge of MS office suite particularly Excel and Word;
10. Must have basic knowledge of NOSA and ISO Standards;
11.Must have a valid driver’s license (Code B).

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