South Africa: Senior Field Engineer (Instrumentation) posted by Aleon Pty Ltd

About the Role

The Senior Field Engineer (Instrumentation) role is based in Mogalakwena Mine, Mokopane, South Africa. This 2.13.3.1 appointment requires a high degree of competence in instrumentation used in highly automated plants. The successful candidate will provide field engineering services to customers in the mining, metals, and heavy industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Frequently communicates and interfaces with customers’ engineering and technical teams to discuss Company Engineering capabilities, customer applications/requirements, and coordinate project activities.
• Possesses a broad knowledge of controls, power conversion, automation, data analytics, and their application to the industries, equipment, and customers served by the Company.
• Demonstrates strong project management independently or in cooperation with others to collect information for cost estimates, labor estimates, contingency plans, materials, and supply chain lead times, prioritization, and resource availability.
• Proficiently collects voice of the customer intelligence and translates it into actionable plans and results.
• Stays up-to-date on current technologies in the industry as well as emerging technologies and trends.
• Researches and conducts competitive analysis, including pricing and product offerings, of solutions provided by key competitors and customers in the local market.
• Assists in overall product strategies and product roadmaps based on local markets.
• Owns and develops product requirements/enhancements/functional specifications by working with customers, field service engineering, sales, and other associated product stakeholders.
• Demonstrates proficiency in problem-solving, RCA, and project management principles from training and experience.
• Develops and maintains local service engineering processes and standards.
• Prioritizes respective engineering groups’ projects and manages category pipeline.
• Actively assists in promoting the Company and the Company Service Engineering, and selling to customers, partners, and others.
• Plays a critical role in defining the overall product and growth strategy by partnering with Business Development and Product Management.
• Coordinates and executes new product introductions with other functional departments through Stage Gate Process and/or the Company’s commercialization process.
• Demonstrates proficiency in planning and managing departmental budgets and project costs.
• Executes work in effective and efficient ways to best serve customers and attain corporate regional and goals.
• Serves as key contact for Corporate R&D teams, globally.
• Appreciates and demonstrates the Company’s Core Values and Principles, and Corporate Mission.

Requirements

• Instrumentation/Electrical Trade Test.
• 3 years relevant management experience.
• Project management experience.
• Extensive and up-to-date knowledge in control systems, Field instruments & drives.
• Knowledge and experience in industrial and/or machine control theory.
• Experience with mining machine systems applications including but not limited to electric mining shovels, draglines, haul trucks, rotary blast hole drills, and hydraulic excavators.
• Demonstrated experience in managing the product lifecycle of systems and products.
• Demonstrated success with the ability to identify key customer requirements and translate them into detailed product specifications for multi-generational products.
• Direct experience in formulating, producing, and implementing product roadmaps.
• Good business acumen and ability to cascade business goals to engineering objectives.

Qualifications

• Registered as Professional Engineer with ECSA or
• Registered as Professional Engineering Technologist with ECSA is advantageous.