Instrument Mechanician/ Technician

2 weeks ago


Rustenburg, South Africa AB Labour Services Full time

**Qualifications***:

- S4 / T3 / N6 National Diploma for Technicians (Instrumentation), or N6 Diploma (Instrumentation)
- Instrument trade test certificate obtained from either Central Organization for Trade Testing or Mining Industry Engineering Trades Training Board (Not Essential if in Possession of a National Diploma or registered with ECSA as a PR.Tech.Eng).

**Experience***:

- Minimum of 2-year Instrumentation experience related to Measurement and Control environment. obtained as Instrument Mechanician before obtaining his qualification as above.
- The person must also have the basic knowledge and experience gained during P1 and P2 period of his practical training (for the S3/4-Courses)

**Profile**
**.**
- Manage people effective ,communicate to all levels of management and run small projects, must be computer literate and able to use SAP
- Monitor and improve existing process control installations and uphold and improve existing standards.
- Perform standby duties.

Must be able to install, remove and maintain various instrumentation and have knowledge of the basic principle of operation of such instruments and practices stated below.

**Process Control and Instrumentation**

Ø Pressure Measurement. Pressure Transmitter, Pressure switches

Ø Temperature Measurement. Thermocouples, Rtd's, Thermistors, Pyrometers

Ø Flow Measurement, Flow switches, Anubars, Pitot tubes, etc.

Ø Magnetic flow meter, Ultrasonic flow meter, Mass-flow ,Open channel flow

Ø Ultrasonic, radiation,

Ø Vibration and Displacement measurement

Ø Actuators. Types, sizing, positioners, limits, material.

Ø Analytical Instrumentation: pH measurement, conductivity.

Ø Analysers: Dust monitors,So2 analysers, CO analyser, etc.

Ø Electromechanical Weighers.

Ø Density systems, requirements and hazards.

Ø Loadcell weighing systems.

**Fundamentals of Process Plant Layout and Design.**

Ø Process and instrumentation diagrams

Ø Equipment used in process plants

**Basic principles of controls systems**

Ø Types of control in closed loops.

Ø PID, Cascade feed forward and combinations of control.

**Fundamentals of Plc hardware and Software. (Alen Bradley -Essential)**

Ø Ladder logic fundamentals.

Ø Advance control fundamentals.

Ø Knowledge on safety of programming systems.

Ø Local area networks and Ethernet.

Ø IEC 61131-3 programming concepts ladder, function blocks ,instruction list etc.

**Fundamentals of Scada Systems. (InTouch, Rockwell Scada systems)**

Ø Scada system development.

Ø HMI Interfacing.

Ø Scada network security, Firewalls

Ø Network technology TCP/IP

**Data communication**.
- Cabling infrastructure
- Industrial Protocols
- Industrial Networks
- Modbus, Hart, DeviceNet, Profibus, Ethernet
- Modems, Switches ,Routers
- IP Addressing, Routing etc.

**Management Fundamentals**.

Ø Fundamentals of Time Management

Ø Basic Quality, Cost and Risk Management

Ø Fundamentals of Managing People Effectively and

Communicate to all levels of Management



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