Instr & Control Engineer II (CCII) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• The role being fulfilled by this position is primarily from a subject matter expert in operational technology perspective. It involves designing, developing, installing, managing and/or maintaining equipment used to monitor and control engineering systems, machinery, and processes. This is mainly focussed on lead engineering role for DCS Refresh projects and a supporting role for ad-hoc operational technology (OT) scope in other projects. Participating in the instrumentation and production fraternities to ensure plant availability and efficient operation. Assisting the various businesses units in ad-hoc RCAs, confirmation studies for adherence to best practises, specifications and procedures. The technical and project tracks on a day-to-day basis to ensure correct resource allocation of time, cost, quality, scope, risk, and benefits that indicate timeous resourcing needs towards the execution of projects and support to operations

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Ensure correct resource allocation and indicate timeously resourcing needs towards the execution of projects and support to operations.
• Ensure critical competency development.
• Manage the relationship with internal and external service providers applicable to function/discipline.
• Maintain work standards.
• Maintain discipline specific systems, tools, policies and procedures for the execution of projects.
• Ensure adherence and compliance to Sasol safety system and culture.
• Ensure that job specific knowledge in all areas of process control, process automation systems and instrumentation including critical control information infrastructure by self-development and attending training as and when required.
• Ensure expert knowledge on area specific equipment in area of responsibility for e.g. transmitters and control valves to be able to maximise availability and production outputs.
• Ensure good working relationship with all stake holders especially with the instrumentation and control fraternity as well as plant production and maintenance personnel.
• Liaise with external engineering companies to share in knowledge and benchmark on best practices.
• Provide plant support as and when required.
• Perform trip and alarm testing.
• Change range and trip settings on process automation systems.
• Configure transmitters using AMS, FDM/HART communicator.
• Change range and calibration of instruments on process automation systems.
• Plan resources against short- and long-term objectives.
• Drive effective resource allocation and utilisation.
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements, Sasol policies and standards.
• Record and incorporate lessons learnt per project.
• Report on budget utilisation, forecasting and changes.
• Manage discipline specific project tasks.
• Perform quality control of delivered services.
• Review Sasol policies for applicability and implementation.
• Develop deviation concessions and concession registers to Sasol specifications for small project execution.
• Govern proposed modifications.
• Take responsibility to drive initiatives which improves delivery and competitiveness.
• Drive high performance culture and innovative thinking.
• Ensure critical competencies are developed.
• Develop technical and engineering skills of EIT's through coaching.
• Manage and develop people in the team.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and innovation.
• Ensure personal development plans are completed, implemented and tracked within applicable career path.
• Notify/inform of changes in resourcing needs.
• Be responsible for own performance management.
• Ensure safety objectives and required training is completed.
• Contribute in the translation and execution of the technical support strategy.
• Translate and cascade goals and long-term plans through effective two ay communication in the organisation.
• Manage engineering knowledge by transforming, packaging, transferring and maintaining knowledge.
• Provide efficient and high-quality services to stakeholders.
• Oversee the management of external service providers.
• Maintain healthy and stable relationships with contractors and consultants.
• Oversee the safety of external service providers.

Formal Education

• B Eng / BSc Eng Electronic or Computer Engineering

Min Experience

• 5+ relevant years

Competencies

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well-defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting