E&I Technician – Mining Plant Maintenance

VirtuCruit LLC; Najran; On-site; SAR 89,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtucruit and a leading mining company in Saudi Arabia are seeking an E I & C Technician to perform electrical, instrumentation, and control maintenance in a mining environment. You will carry out preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshoot equipment, calibrate instruments, and mentor local staff.

The role requires 5+ years of EI experience, reading P&ID and ladder diagrams, and good English communication.

Qualifications

• Diploma / associate degree in electrical/Instrumentation or equivalent.
• 5+ years of Electrical and Instrumentation experience in the field of mining or related industry.
• Excellent English communication skills both written and oral.
• Able to read and understand P&ID drawings, schematic drawings, control loop drawings, logic diagram and ladder diagram is an advantage.
• Working knowledge on PLC, DCS and the HMI's that supports these is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to personnel policies, safety, health, environmental, security, cost reduction and improvement programs of the company
• Perform daily routinary/Preventive maintenance activities.
• Perform none routinary project and upgrade work.
• Conduct inspection on electrical equipment and facilities.
• Assess work request jobs from other departments.
• Work with single and three phase equipment's.
• Installation and troubleshooting of motor control (Direct online, forward-reverse, star-delta and etc.)
• Assist superior in preparing inventory list of electrical equipment and all spare parts.
• Reads and interprets electrical diagrams
• Installs specified electrical equipment and devices in position
• Tests and evaluates newly installed and existing electrical equipment and devices for any abnormalities and performs necessary correction or revisions
• Repairs and reconditions defective electrical equipment
• Check, repair and replace defective pull cord switch, belt drift switch and under speed sensor for conveyor interlock.
• Performed weekly task (e.g. check listing of equipment's, instruments, pneumatic gates and valves).
• Performed weekly task/check listing of water treatment plant (e.g. water pumps, dosing pumps, pneumatic valves, and variable speed drive for pumps).
• Check functionality of conveyor belt parameters (e.g. pull cord switches, best drift switches and under speed sensor).
• Check and diagnose of alarms and fault in PLC through its input and output for digital and analog I /O's.
• Reconditioning of slip rings and brush setting of mill drive motors in case of flashover.
• Check, repair and replace defective parts of carbon regeneration kiln, elution burner and drying oven.
• Prepares and submits accomplishment reports
• Attends to pep talk and other meetings of the department
• Performs other related functions that may assigned by superior.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Instrumentation

PLC

DCS

HMI

English communication

Education

Diploma/Associate degree in Electrical/Instrumentation

Tools

PLC

DCS

HMI

Job description

Virtucruit and a leading mining company in Saudi Arabia are seeking an E I & C Technician to perform electrical, instrumentation, and control maintenance in a mining environment. You will carry out preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshoot equipment, calibrate instruments, and mentor local staff.

The role requires 5+ years of EI experience, reading P&ID and ladder diagrams, and good English communication.