Plant Engineer

Plant Engineer

Location: Mpumalanga

Salary: R1,5 Mil-R1.7 Mil CTC

The Plant Engineer will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing various equipment that drives processes in a plant, with a strong emphasis on process improvement and plant maintenance, whilst maintaining a strong safety and environmental compliance focus for plant and equipment.

Qualifications:

• Mechanical Engineering Degree or equivalent, and commercial training.
• Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) Factories
• 15 years experience as a Plant Engineer in a power plant/utilities environment
• Experience with Boilers, Steam Systems, and Power Plant Equipment

Related Experience:

• 15 years experience as a Plant Engineer in a power plant/utilities environment.
• Develop strategies for the Engineering Department in line with O&M strategy.
• Develop and ensure the implementation of Engineering department work instructions, policies, procedures, and controls covering all areas of department activity to fulfill relevant procedural/legislative requirements while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.
• Proactively reduce breakdowns, ensure effective plant preventative maintenance, and plant improvements to deliver above target plant reliability.
• Overview and assess planned maintenance activities to verify effective execution. Physically observe maintenance team on planned maintenance tasks when required. Review PM reports and schedule, revise frequencies, and plan interventions to prevent breakdowns.
• Provide input into major breakdowns and analyze all breakdowns with the maintenance team to determine root cause and requirements for implementing corrective/preventive measures.

Skills and Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding of power plant operations and associated risks.
• Knowledge and understanding of SHERQ management systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of conducting risk assessments.
• Good numeric reasoning ability.
• Good attention to detail.
• Organized, efficient, and ability to multi-task.
• Deadline driven and ability to work under pressure.
• Negotiation skills.
• Project management principles.
• Sound knowledge of human behavior and occupational hygiene.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Facilitation and presentation skills.
• Procedure and report writing skills.
• Computer literacy (e.g., MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, etc.).
• Auditing skills.
• Team player, motivating, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Excellent legislative knowledge and the ability to implement and manage SHERQ legislation.
• Punctual and reactive to emergency situations.
• Proactive and anticipatory of risk.

Behaviour:

• Integrity
• Professionalism
• Reliability
• Safety oriented
• Self-motivated

CVs without certificates will be disqualified.