PCS Technical Technician

• REFERENCE:
  HR0277647
• CONTRACT:
  Full-time
• PRIMARY LOCATION:
  Richards Bay, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
• DATE POSTED:
  30 May 2014

PCS Technician: Technical

 

Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK. Rio Tinto'sbusiness is finding, mining and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and Southern Africa. For more information, please visit http://www.riotinto.com/.

 

Located in the KwaZulu Natal province, Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is part of the Rio Tinto Group (74% shareholding). RBM is an internationally recognized sand mining and mineral processing operations leader and is one of the world's foremost producers of titanium minerals, high purity pig iron and zircon.

 

Employing some 2 000 permanent staff and a number of well-established contracting companies, RBM is proud of the accreditation for ISO 9001 for quality, OHSAS 18001 certification for occupational health and safety management, and ISO 14001 accreditation for environmental management.  The company has implemented a sound corporate social development programme and an internationally recognised environmental rehabilitation programme to restore the mined dunes to their natural state after mining.

 

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Reporting to the Superintendent: PCS Final Products, as the PCS Technician Technical you will support the stable operation of the PCS control systems assets including both software and hardware. This includes planning, designing, installing, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing PCS level 1 to level 3 automation systems while ensuring minimal downtime.  

 

JOB OBJECTIVES:

• Diagnose, resolve, and document PCS problems in a timely and accurate fashion, and provide end user training and support where required
• Conduct effective maintenance execution of PCS software applications
• Assists in repeat failures, problem solving and trouble shooting of plant PCS problems
• Ensure root cause to software application failure is managed and mitigated.
• Support the execution of teamwork walkabouts on Plants to ensure compliance to standards and quality of workmanship.
• Continuously identify areas of opportunity to improve and optimise the current levels of PCS availability, reliability and process capabilities.
• Conduct improvement studies and identify opportunities to implement CIP’s and improve business performance.
• Ensure that systems and SEP’s are geared to allow speedy fault-finding by level 1 PCS maintenance staff
• PCS systems Software  and hardware modification
• PCS application maintenance and support ( PLC, FTAC, SCADA, PDS)
• PCS Backup Management (PLC, SCADA, etc.)
• PCS system’s configuration management
• System fault finding and resolution (level2 and above)
• Monitoring of Total PCS systems health
• Plant PCS change control administration and management
• Level 1 IT systems fault finding

OUTPUTS:

• Promoting a Zero Harm culture where Safety emphasizes personal awareness and responsibility.
• Conducting regular audits and ensure compliance of the Safety standards is maintained as per the HSE across all facets of PCS
• Identifying business process safety management risk and execute action to mitigate business risks
• Promote and engage in teamwork by applying the Team Process Model to ensure a fully integrated team and building on a high performance culture.
• Supporting the technical development of Artisan \Trainees  by coaching  and mentoring
• Compile engineering specifications to ensure a visible standard for compliance.
• Develop a culture of service excellence within the section and PCS dept.
• Conduct proactive customer engagement discussion to ensure customer needs and requirements are understood through effective communication and contribution at the stakeholder meetings.
• Manage customer expectations through task prioritization.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• N6 Diploma in Industrial Instrumentation with Trade Test in Instrumentation and minimum of 5 years technical experience
• T3 / S4 National Diploma Electrical Engineering(Instrumentation) with 4 years’ experience in controls and instrumentation
• EB Licence
• ECSA registration would be advantageous

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Well-developed interpersonal and people management skills.
• Sound judgment, analytical reasoning and decision-making skills.
• Well-developed project and risk management skills, coupled with good resource utilization abilities.
• Astute Budget / financial acumen.
• Good report-writing and communication skills
• Auditing and governance knowledge
• Research methods and techniques
• Trouble-shooting and diagnostics

Closing date: 13 June 2014 

 

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