2 Technician Instruments
2025-09-22T18:50:46+00:00
Zambia Sugar Plc
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FULL_TIME
Mazabuka
Mazabuka
10101
Zambia
Professional Services
Science & Engineering
2025-09-30T17:00:00+00:00
Zambia
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This position reports to the Maintenance Foreman – Instrumentation. The successful candidates will be responsible for carrying out maintenance works to achieve maximum plant availability and equipment capacity, ensuring compliance to minimum operating standards and/ or work instructions.
Key Performance Areas
- Implement the “Illovo Way of Maintenance” (iAMP) in electrical maintenance to ensure Illovo is the best class sugar producer.
- Promote cross-functional and stakeholder engagement & teamwork
- Model behaviours, collaborating, partnering and communicating effectively within and between teams and customer functions (process).
- Promote a culture of consistently assessing risks and drive continuous improvement throughout operations
- Adhere to and promote SHERQ & Food Safety standards
- Ensure plant realizes agreed capacity and teams address areas for improvement.
- Plan for stop days or opportunity stops
- Perform a Daily Plant Inspection of all equipment in his section as per PM WO route and checklist – report any defects, safety concerns.
- Ensure that all defects identified during his plant inspections are documented on the checklist feedback and immediately report any significant risks verbally to your FLM.
- Install and maintain pneumatic and mechanical instruments including stripping, replacing and adjusting parts, calibrating, reassembling and checking the function of parts.
- Replace and renew materials and components commonly used in electrical instruments, e.g. conducting and insulating materials, soft and hard solders, resistance, coils and capacitors. Strip, overhaul and re-assemble air regulators.
- Use relevant hand tools and equipment for marking, cutting, threading and fixing when installing small bore piping, component parts and fittings.
- Ensure correct, accurate measurements and that all measurements represented on remote systems including the DCS truly and accurately represent process conditions.
- Ensure all control loops are tuned and optimized to achieve optimum functionality.
- Upon completion of repairs, ensure that equipment is in good operating condition, i.e. ready to meet operational requirements, fully inspected, tested, clean and safe (5S).
- Ensure the Job Plan / Checklist on the WO is diligently followed as per the work-order tasks. Provide feedback in terms of quality and improvement to Job Plans
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the condition of your section’s equipment on a continuous basis and take responsibility for failures resulting from inadequate equipment inspection.
- Provide detailed feedback on repair jobs including (a) Actual work done / corrective actions taken (b) Man hours used (c) In the event of a breakdown, failure feedback (failure codes) (d) Consumption of materials (e) Tools used.
- Conduct and contribute to the RCA process (In your section or as the stand-by artisan). Take on a mind-set that all equipment failures are preventable.
- Identify areas where Technician training is required on equipment maintenance and inform FLM and do all you can to train new artisans or assistants.
- Work with Optimization and Process teams to solve problems and promote cross functional engagement & teamwork.
- Ensure continuous improvement by implementing functional best practices.
- Monitor own section KPIs, understand your contribution to them, contribute to solutions to resolve out of spec KPIs and maintain actions to sustain KPIs being within spec.
- Promote and adhere to ABF’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
Minimum Qualifications
- Grade 12 Certificate
- Diploma in Instrumentation or Electronics Engineering
- Training and experience in industrial instrumentation as a minimum
- 2+ years post experience in a heavy industry environment, experience in the sugar industry is an added advantage.
Implement the “Illovo Way of Maintenance” (iAMP) in electrical maintenance to ensure Illovo is the best class sugar producer. Promote cross-functional and stakeholder engagement & teamwork Model behaviours, collaborating, partnering and communicating effectively within and between teams and customer functions (process). Promote a culture of consistently assessing risks and drive continuous improvement throughout operations Adhere to and promote SHERQ & Food Safety standards Ensure plant realizes agreed capacity and teams address areas for improvement. Plan for stop days or opportunity stops Perform a Daily Plant Inspection of all equipment in his section as per PM WO route and checklist – report any defects, safety concerns. Ensure that all defects identified during his plant inspections are documented on the checklist feedback and immediately report any significant risks verbally to your FLM. Install and maintain pneumatic and mechanical instruments including stripping, replacing and adjusting parts, calibrating, reassembling and checking the function of parts. Replace and renew materials and components commonly used in electrical instruments, e.g. conducting and insulating materials, soft and hard solders, resistance, coils and capacitors. Strip, overhaul and re-assemble air regulators. Use relevant hand tools and equipment for marking, cutting, threading and fixing when installing small bore piping, component parts and fittings. Ensure correct, accurate measurements and that all measurements represented on remote systems including the DCS truly and accurately represent process conditions. Ensure all control loops are tuned and optimized to achieve optimum functionality. Upon completion of repairs, ensure that equipment is in good operating condition, i.e. ready to meet operational requirements, fully inspected, tested, clean and safe (5S). Ensure the Job Plan / Checklist on the WO is diligently followed as per the work-order tasks. Provide feedback in terms of quality and improvement to Job Plans Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the condition of your section’s equipment on a continuous basis and take responsibility for failures resulting from inadequate equipment inspection. Provide detailed feedback on repair jobs including (a) Actual work done / corrective actions taken (b) Man hours used (c) In the event of a breakdown, failure feedback (failure codes) (d) Consumption of materials (e) Tools used. Conduct and contribute to the RCA process (In your section or as the stand-by artisan). Take on a mind-set that all equipment failures are preventable. Identify areas where Technician training is required on equipment maintenance and inform FLM and do all you can to train new artisans or assistants. Work with Optimization and Process teams to solve problems and promote cross functional engagement & teamwork. Ensure continuous improvement by implementing functional best practices. Monitor own section KPIs, understand your contribution to them, contribute to solutions to resolve out of spec KPIs and maintain actions to sustain KPIs being within spec. Promote and adhere to ABF’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
Grade 12 Certificate Diploma in Instrumentation or Electronics Engineering Training and experience in industrial instrumentation as a minimum 2+ years post experience in a heavy industry environment, experience in the sugar industry is an added advantage.
JOB-68d19a8626321
Vacancy title:
2 Technician Instruments
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Science & Engineering]
Jobs at:
Zambia Sugar Plc
Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, September 30 2025
Duty Station:
Mazabuka | Mazabuka | Zambia
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 22 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
This position reports to the Maintenance Foreman – Instrumentation. The successful candidates will be responsible for carrying out maintenance works to achieve maximum plant availability and equipment capacity, ensuring compliance to minimum operating standards and/ or work instructions.
Key Performance Areas
- Implement the “Illovo Way of Maintenance” (iAMP) in electrical maintenance to ensure Illovo is the best class sugar producer.
- Promote cross-functional and stakeholder engagement & teamwork
- Model behaviours, collaborating, partnering and communicating effectively within and between teams and customer functions (process).
- Promote a culture of consistently assessing risks and drive continuous improvement throughout operations
- Adhere to and promote SHERQ & Food Safety standards
- Ensure plant realizes agreed capacity and teams address areas for improvement.
- Plan for stop days or opportunity stops
- Perform a Daily Plant Inspection of all equipment in his section as per PM WO route and checklist – report any defects, safety concerns.
- Ensure that all defects identified during his plant inspections are documented on the checklist feedback and immediately report any significant risks verbally to your FLM.
- Install and maintain pneumatic and mechanical instruments including stripping, replacing and adjusting parts, calibrating, reassembling and checking the function of parts.
- Replace and renew materials and components commonly used in electrical instruments, e.g. conducting and insulating materials, soft and hard solders, resistance, coils and capacitors. Strip, overhaul and re-assemble air regulators.
- Use relevant hand tools and equipment for marking, cutting, threading and fixing when installing small bore piping, component parts and fittings.
- Ensure correct, accurate measurements and that all measurements represented on remote systems including the DCS truly and accurately represent process conditions.
- Ensure all control loops are tuned and optimized to achieve optimum functionality.
- Upon completion of repairs, ensure that equipment is in good operating condition, i.e. ready to meet operational requirements, fully inspected, tested, clean and safe (5S).
- Ensure the Job Plan / Checklist on the WO is diligently followed as per the work-order tasks. Provide feedback in terms of quality and improvement to Job Plans
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the condition of your section’s equipment on a continuous basis and take responsibility for failures resulting from inadequate equipment inspection.
- Provide detailed feedback on repair jobs including (a) Actual work done / corrective actions taken (b) Man hours used (c) In the event of a breakdown, failure feedback (failure codes) (d) Consumption of materials (e) Tools used.
- Conduct and contribute to the RCA process (In your section or as the stand-by artisan). Take on a mind-set that all equipment failures are preventable.
- Identify areas where Technician training is required on equipment maintenance and inform FLM and do all you can to train new artisans or assistants.
- Work with Optimization and Process teams to solve problems and promote cross functional engagement & teamwork.
- Ensure continuous improvement by implementing functional best practices.
- Monitor own section KPIs, understand your contribution to them, contribute to solutions to resolve out of spec KPIs and maintain actions to sustain KPIs being within spec.
- Promote and adhere to ABF’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
Minimum Qualifications
- Grade 12 Certificate
- Diploma in Instrumentation or Electronics Engineering
- Training and experience in industrial instrumentation as a minimum
- 2+ years post experience in a heavy industry environment, experience in the sugar industry is an added advantage.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 24
Level of Education: associate degree
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