Electrical Plant Engineer: Operations

SUMMARY:
Established food manufacturing concern requires and Electrical Plant Engineer in their Operations Department, reporting tot eh Maintenance Manager, located in Durban.

POSITION INFO:
Summary:

The incumbent will be responsible for managing electrical and instrumentation maintenance and support general plant maintenance and optimization by initiating equipment improvements and providing engineering support to a multi-disciplined maintenance team.

Requirements:

• Btech / B.Eng. (Electrical) + Government Certificate of Competency
• Min 2 years’ FMCG maintenance engineering experience covering all engineering disciplines (Electrical/Mechanical/Instrumentation/Civil 0
• Knowledge of OHS Act, Hazardous Chemicals, National Environmental Legislation
• Expert knowledge of all major plant equipment

• Manage and improve plant safety by ensuring compliance to legislation
• Assessment of risk involved in conducting various jobs and activities. In particular, planning and communicating jobs which entail work on high risk areas (high pressure super heated steam, sulphuric acid, anhydrous ammonia, chlorine gas, phosphoric acid, nitric acid)
• Ensure accurate drawings and documentation are updated with all projects and modifications
• Conduct HAZOP study & participate in HACCP study
• Interfacing of projects/modifications with production
• Manage change and modifications
• Lead project/modification commissioning when required
• Ensure plant personnel is trained to operate new process/equipment and that SOP’s are provided
• Comply with ModProp process
• Identify recurring troublesome equipment/problems and propose and implement alterations/modifications where agreed.
• -Assist maintenance to resolve breakdowns timeously

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