1. POSITION DETAILS: |
Position Title: | Field Operator – AVON PLANT |
Reports to: | Shift Charge Engineer |
Department: | Operations |
Closing Date: | 19 April 2024 |
| 2. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES |
| - Assists Shift Charge Engineer to supervise and oversee daily plant operations and maintenance in the Operations Shift Team in order to ensure that operational targets are achieved safely, efficiently and within the company rules and procedures, OEM guidelines, legal, environmental, contractual and other requirements;
- Assist to establish the appropriate procedures and computerized maintenance management processes as applicable to a prudent operation management, in particular the permit to work system;
- Ensures correct operational line-up and local operation of the systems;
- Unloads fuel tankers in a safe manner;
- Understands and adheres to all Plant Safety Guidelines and Procedures. Strives to maintain an injury-free environment;
- Understands and masters the Plant Emergency Handling Procedures;
- Participates in the Plant Training and Qualification Program;
- Ensures control of the plant process and electrical distribution through the plant Distributed Control System (DCS) and other process control devices;
- Assists in scheduling daily maintenance actions, plant configuration changes and varying power generation levels;
- Monitors plant chemistry and chemicals handling;
- Identifies problems with plant equipment and clearly communicates the conditions associated with these problems to the Shift Charge Engineer / Plant Maintenance Team;
- Ensures the completion of shift round checklists, routine daily/weekly/monthly test checklists and equipment change-over checklists, etc.;
- Coordinates with the Shift Charge Engineer and Operation Engineer;
- Submits the necessary reports and recommendations to the Shift Charge Engineer concerning equipment/plant status and/or any problems;
- Responsible for the generation and sending the Plant’s daily data requirements in a timely manner to all applicable parties;
- Maintaining high standards of management, ethics and leadership;
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| 3. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS: |
| Essential Qualifications: - Grade 12/N3 or NQF Level 4
- Demonstrated competence at engineering level supported by relevant education and training
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| Experience: - At least 3 years’ experience in the operation of a power plant;
- Use of safe systems of work
- Use of computerized management system
- Reporting
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| Skills: Behavioral: - Drive to achieve results through himself and others
- Ability to build and work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary staff
- Ability to work together with the other departments in order to achieve the best result for the company
- Take ownership
- Maintains high ethics standard
- Motivation and leadership of team and individual team members
- Respects the others as well as the cultural diversity
- Seek, organize and exchange information for decision making and problem solving
- Ability to create a climate of open communication on personal and professional issues
- Ability to work autonomously, prioritizing tasks and activities in line with business objectives
- Quality and environmental awareness and managing according to quality standards and procedures
- Innovation, vision, creativity, taking initiative, problem solving and decision making
- A pro-active approach to planning and decision making
- Ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders
Language: - English Language: excellent communication skills both written and verbal;
- Afrikaans/Zulu/Xhosa is an advantage;
IT: - Computer literate: must have a high degree of skill in Business Computing Applications such as Databases, Word Processors, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint and Enterprise Resource Planning applications (Maximo/SAP or equivalent);
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