Technician: PLC

3 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Weir Group Full time

Technician: PLC

Weir Minerals

Isando

Onsite

Purpose of Role:
The position is responsible for the design, installation, management and maintenance of all automation, scada and control systems on all machinery and equipment on the Weir Isando site as well as Alrode site.

This include but is not limited to Foundry, Machine shop and Rubber plant.

Why choose Weir:
Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge - but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

- Safety First:

- Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.
- Supervisory:

- Ensure critical spare parts availability for PLC’s and automation parts by maintaining adequate stock levels.
- Setup and maintain a planned maintenance system for all PLC programmable system for production facilities Isando and Alrode.
- Ensure full compliance to the OHS act for all plant and equipment and safe work procedures for equipment controlled through programs.
- Work with support teams from OEM’s.
- Scheduled inspections and servicing.
- Production:

- Repairs and maintenance to all plant and machinery within the facility confines.
- Attending to breakdowns on the plant. Assist maintenance artisans with complex fault finding.
- Ensure that all scheduled preventative maintenance is adhered to.
- Implementing fail safe/early warning detection safety systems on equipment to prevent them from damage and major down time.
- Research and plan machine upgrades and process optimization of production lines and critical machinery by implementing, wiring, programming, and commissioning PLC’s, Remote IO systems, RTU’s, VSD’s, HMI’s, on machine safety devices and control systems.
- Automate and improve efficiency of machinery, plant and production lines using sound industrial automation knowledge and experience.
- Install, wire, setup and program electricity energy monitoring and data logging servers, including water and gas consumption to the server for reporting and sustainability record tracking
- Procurement:

- Complete purchasing requisitions and arrange for order placement, through Purchasing Department, of related materials and equipment relevant to maintenance requirements in conjunction with the Production Manager with the view to optimize cost and delivery.
- Drawings:

- The ability to understand and interpret all engineering machine drawings in the execution of maintenance duties
- Be able to compile and draw any relevant sketches or designs necessary regarding maintenance functions

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

- Qualified Artisan C&I Mechanician, Millwright or Electrician with minimum 5 years’ experience. (required)
- Advanced Diploma in Industrial Automation Engineering or similar(Desired)
- PLC programming training. (required)
- RSLogix 5000 training. (Desired)
- Experience in virtual machine computing (VMware)
- Experience working with servers and SQL Server and databases.
- Experience in Ethernet IP networks and communications.
- Advanced knowledge and experience with variable speed drives
- Good knowledge and experience on level sensors, flow sensors, pressure sensors, temperature sensors.
- Good knowledge of machine safety devices.
- Good knowledge of cyber security and cyber security risks.

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

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