Boshoek Smelter
Boshoek, North West, South Africa
Ref. No. 848
Internal & External
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Support the Superintendent in implementing plant instrumentation and control strategies, standards and maintenance plans
- Provide technical engineering support for plant instrumentation, PLC, SCADA, DCS, industrial networks and associated control infrastructure
- Manage and support instrumentation personnel and contractors within the assigned area to achieve safety, quality, availability and cost targets
- Ensure the safe and reliable installation, commissioning, maintenance and optimisation of instrumentation and control systems
- Lead advanced fault finding, root cause analysis and failure-elimination activities, and ensure corrective actions are implemented
- Develop and review preventative and predictive maintenance tasks, job plans, equipment records and critical spares in SAP PM
- Monitor control-system and equipment performance and drive process optimisation, reliability and continuous improvement initiatives
- Plan and coordinate instrumentation work for shutdowns and major outages, including quality control, commissioning and close-out
- Develop technical scopes and specifications and coordinate the instrumentation aspects of capital projects, upgrades and plant modifications
- Maintain software backups, configuration control, technical documentation and plant change-management requirements
- Ensure compliance with engineering standards, statutory requirements, HSEC standards and company procedures
- Participate in standby, provide second-line technical support during breakdowns, and coach and develop instrumentation team members
About you:
- National Diploma (NQF 6) or higher in Electrical Engineering (Light Current/Process Instrumentation), Electronic Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering
- Instrumentation Trade Test
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in industrial instrumentation, control systems and process optimisation within heavy industry, mining, smelting or metallurgical operations
- At least three years’ supervisory or technical team-lead experience
- PLC, SCADA and DCS programming, development and fault-finding experience, Siemens PLC’s will be an added advantage
- Strong knowledge of field instrumentation, industrial communication networks, control-system configuration and plant interlocks
- Demonstrated project management, shutdown, commissioning and continuous improvement experience
- Computer literacy and practical experience with SAP PM, MES, MS Project, Excel and Outlook, supported by strong problem-solving and stakeholder-engagement skills
Applications Close: 09 October 2026