Senior Control & Functional Safety Engineer (C&I)
Valterra Platinum Limited
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Job summary
Valterra Platinum Limited is seeking a senior control and instrumentation engineer to provide required functional safety expert support to operating and central units. You will deliver technical leadership for C&I strategies, oversee design, implementation and maintenance of control solutions, and drive best practices across the PGM value chain.
The role includes leading R&D and ensuring standards compliance for hardware and software across projects.
Qualifications
- Relevant graduate degree in Electrical/Electronic or Computer Engineering.
- Desirable: Functional safety qualification (e.g. exida / TUV).
- Desirable: Pr Eng/Tech registration.
- 5-7 years working experience in relevant control and instrumentation environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop the functional safety function within Valterra Platinum.
- Assist in defining the C&I and automation technical strategy in the applicable mining and processing focus areas and ensure its implementation.
- Align the C&I and automation strategy with the corporate and production drivers.
- Develop and maintain the C&I and automation strategy documents to support and develop applicable and new technology focus for use by both central and production control teams.
- Define best practise in specific C&I and automation technological focus areas.
- Establish network of excellence in the applicable industry to support technical focus areas.
- Audit & benchmark field instrument, network, I/O up to PLC level for the control and automation technology segments.
- Review operational efficiency versus control and automation system objectives.
- Define required support structures to ensure sustainability of applicable control and automation technology areas.
- Benchmark technology deployed and results achieved against the industry standards and best practises.
- Manage and Direct Research & Development project in the automation technology focus areas.
- Manage applicable Research and Development portfolio as instructed to support the automation technology strategy.
- Identify suitable control and automation technology centres of excellence to support technology strategy.
- Align R&D output with the automation technology strategy.
- Provide reports and perform controls audits for improvement.
- Ensure application of correct Standards for hardware and software system to support all C&I and automation fields across the PGM business areas
- Participate in the technical feedback on site.
- Perform the technical lead function on all automation SIB and Capex projects.
- Support design, execution and commissioning of all C&I and automation projects
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Job description
Valterra Platinum Limited is seeking a senior control and instrumentation engineer to provide required functional safety expert support to operating and central units. You will deliver technical leadership for C&I strategies, oversee design, implementation and maintenance of control solutions, and drive best practices across the PGM value chain.
The role includes leading R&D and ensuring standards compliance for hardware and software across projects.
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