Power Technician Instrument Maintenance- South Africa

Emirates Aluminium Co Ltd; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Aluminium Co Ltd. seeks an experienced technician to troubleshoot, repair, re-commission and maintain field instrumentation for gas turbines, steam turbines, waste heat boilers, and desalination plant and its auxiliaries.

The role requires performing maintenance with a focus on minimizing downtime and ensuring safe operation. The candidate should be familiar with pressure, temperature, level and flow devices, pneumatic/hydraulic actuation, CO2 fire protection, infrared gas detection,

Qualifications

• Higher secondary or diploma required.
• Experience with maintenance tools and plant safety is essential.
• Familiarity with field instrumentation: pressure, temperature, level and flow devices; pneumatic & hydraulic actuation; CO2 Fire protection systems; infrared gas detection.

Responsibilities

• Attends to plant field instrumentation breakdowns and planned maintenance with minimal supervision.
• Selects necessary tools and equipment for assigned jobs.
• Uses maintenance system to order spare parts and record work.
• Ensures safety procedures and plant operation requirements are followed; reports breakdowns and supports RCFA.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Calibration

Shift work

Safety awareness

Spare parts handling

Education

Higher secondary or diploma

Tools

Maintenance tools

Calibration equipment

Job description

JOB PURPOSE:

To trouble-shoot, repair, re-commission and maintain efficiently field instrumentation for gas turbines, steam turbines, waste heat boilers, and desalination plant and its auxiliaries to ensure efficient operation and reduce equipment availability down time

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Day to day operational activities

• Attends to Power and Desalination plant field instrumentation breakdowns and planned maintenance work with minimum direction and supervision.
• Technically assesses the requirement of the allocated jobs and selects the necessary tools and equipment to complete such work.
• Using the computerized maintenance system, orders the spare parts from the warehouse and maintains records of all maintenance work completed.
• Ensures that all maintenance work is carried out in accordance with the safety procedures and plant operational requirements. Reports repeated breakdowns and assist in RCFA to identify an optimum solution to resolve the problem.
• Provides on the job training to new craftsmen in order to equip them with the necessary skills to be able to carry out maintenance repair work as planned

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Higher secondary or diploma

Minimum Experience:

• Must be familiar with all maintenance tools and should have good knowledge of Plant Safety. The knowledge and experience required in the position is that gained previously experience working in a power or desalination plant and with exposure preferably to any of the maintenance and calibration of the following field instrumentation:
  • Pressure, temperature, level, & flow measuring devices
  • Pneumatic & Hydraulic valve actuation systems
  • CO2 Fire Protection systems
  • Infrared Gas Detection systems
  • Working under time and technical pressure and knowing that any mistake/error made will substantially cost the power station either on delay, equipment damage, or personnel injury.
  • He can be assigned and work on shift duty. He can be called out any time to attend to breakdown work for the shift operation manager.
  • He has to keep abreast with new technologies and control concepts.