Instrument Mechanician

Sappi Ngodwana seeks an experienced Instrument Mechanician to perform maintenance tasks safely, ensuring plant reliability and maximizing equipment effectiveness while maintaining instrumentation systems in compliance with safety standards.

As an Instrumentation Mechanician, your role includes:

• Installing, commissioning, modifying, and maintaining instrument installations and DCS equipment to meet Engineering and Production standards.
• Optimizes Process Controls:
  Optimizes process control systems (DCS) through loop tuning and fault‑finding to ensure performance requirements are met.
• Repairs and Replaces Instruments:
  Removes, cleans, repairs, and replaces defective instruments using appropriate hand tools.
• Assembles and Calibrates:
  Reassembles instruments and calibrates readings to ensure accurate function according to standards.
• Maintains Records:
  Records calibrations, parts used, and maintains inventory of spare parts.
• Creates Documentation:
  Prepares schematic drawings, sketches, and reports to document changes made to instruments, circuits, and systems.
• Supports Team Efforts:
  Performs assigned duties to ensure efficient functioning of the work unit.
• Promotes Safety and Compliance:
  Understands and adheres to Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality (SHEQ) requirements, investigates incidents, identifies root causes of non‑conformances, and maintains workplace cleanliness.

Required

Minimum Qualifications:

• Recognized Instrumentation Trade Certificate accredited by Manpower or SETA.
• Preferably, a minimum of 2 years of post‑apprenticeship experience, with a strong emphasis on instrumentation fault finding within an industrial setting.

Sappi is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At Sappi, we encourage and support vaccination.

Sappi isa leading global provider of everyday materials made from woodfibre-based renewable resources. As a diversified, innovative and trusted leader focused on sustainable processes and products, we are building a more circular economy by making what we should, not just what we can.