SOUTH-AFRICAN MALES ONLY!!!

Location:
Saudi Arabia (Applicant must reside in Gauteng)

Duration:
Permanent Position

Type of Business:
Phosphate Manufacturer

Remuneration:
R 10 000 to R 37 400 p.m.

Job Purpose:

To provide effective and timely maintenance solutions for ensuring world class reliability and availability of Electrical assets in MPC plants. To pro-actively maintain and continuously improve systems, plant and assets to meet Health, Safety & Environment standards, Industry standards and Production requirements.

Key Accountabilities:

• Takes up detailed studies and investigations to eliminate chronic issues and bad actors affecting Electrical assets in plants. Keep tracking the recommendations until completion of implementation.
• Provides technical expertise for Electrical maintenance practices, standards and procedures. Assist in developing Predictive and Preventative Maintenance plans and procedures for all Electrical equipment.
• Conduct reliability evaluation of critical electrical assets by monitoring and analysing the operational data, maintenance records and equipment trends and recommend changes as appropriate in maintenance strategies.
• Contributes to the development of Predictive and Preventative Maintenance strategies and procedures for all Electrical equipment, and provide technical expertise for Electrical maintenance activities, standards and procedures.
• Study of Electrical systems for obsoleteness and performance degradation.
• Lead/participates investigations into Electrical failures or incidents to identify root causes. Produce written reports documenting the failure, cause and preferred solution by which similar failures or incidents may be prevented.
• Communicates and coordinates with vendors and experts for study and recommendations on specific problems related to plant Electrical devices ageing or other system performance problems.
• Monitors maintenance strategy and history in Oracle, analyse chronic failures and recommend right actions to all concerned groups to improve the system/asset performance.
Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Min 15 years’ maintenance experience in Electrical system maintenance/ reliability support in oil refinery / petro chemical / chemicals or fertiliser processing industry including senior supervisory level experience.
• Experience with hazardous area classifications and equipment selection
• Experience in the maintenance and troubleshooting of VFD, Soft Starters, UPS systems, Battery Chargers, Generator Controls, SCADA
• Experience in performing calculations to support coordination, protection relay settings, numerical relay programming etc.
• Experience in latest reliability tools and techniques
• Familiarity with basic electrical components, transformers, switchgear, transmission feeders, sub-stations, motor control centres, drives, motors, and control systems.
• Familiarity with NEC, IEC, IEEE, NEMA and other industrial/regulatory electrical codes and standards
• Worked on or have good general understanding of Oracle, MS Office and good presentation skills. Knowledge of RCM, RCA and reliability statistics will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; leadership and working through others; conceptual and analytical thinking; managing change and good problem solving skills. Must acquire statistical methods to analyse the data for large data analysis.
• Must be able to work under pressure and give maximum output.