Senior Industrial Automation Engineer
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≈ $21k – $45k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Durban)
Seniority
Senior · 7+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
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Job Mail is a South African online job board offering a large selection of vacancies across the country and some positions abroad. Job seekers can search and apply for jobs online, upload a CV and receive job alerts, while employers and recruitment agencies can advertise positions to a broad national audience. The brand is one of the longer-established names in South African job advertising and is operated from South Africa.
We are recruiting an experienced Senior Industrial Automation Engineer to lead the design, development and delivery of complex automation projects.
The successful candidate will take ownership of projects from system architecture and programming through FAT/SAT, commissioning and final handover, while also supporting technical leadership, client engagement and engineer development.
Key Responsibilities
- Design complete PLC/DCS, SCADA/HMI and industrial automation solutions
- Engineer control logic and communications
- Develop PLC and SCADA/HMI systems
- Integrate field devices, drives and instrumentation
- Lead signal verification and loop testing
- Conduct FAT/SAT and commissioning
- Manage client acceptance and final handover
- Drive software change control and technical governance
- Support process optimisation and energy-efficiency initiatives
- Apply risk, ISO and industry safety requirements
- Mentor engineers
- Support presales, technical scoping and estimating
- Engage with clients and contractors
- Minimum 7+ years’ industrial automation experience
- BEng or BTech in Electrical, Electronic or Mechatronic Engineering
- Strong Siemens or equivalent PLC, SCADA and DCS experience
- Experience with full project lifecycle delivery
- Demonstrated technical leadership or mentorship experience
- Valid driver’s licence
- Willingness to travel and participate in rotational standby
- Strong experience with TIA Portal, Step 7 and/or PCS 7
- Experience with WinCC, Ignition or AVEVA advantageous
- Knowledge of Profinet, Profibus, Modbus and Ethernet-based networks
- Functional safety and SIL experience advantageous
- VSD and soft-starter setup and commissioning experience
- ECSA registration or eligibility advantageous
Salary: R65,000 - R85,000 CTC per month
Industry: Industrial Automation
Start: ASAP
Please note only candidates with the required experience will be contacted and considered. If you are not contacted within 14 days, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.
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