Eramet recrute 01 EC&I Specialist

Grande Côte Operations (GCO), a subsidiary of the Eramet group in Senegal, is active in the development, production and shipping of mineral sands, and more specifically Ilmenite, Zircon, Rutile and Leucoxene. Our ambition is to ensure the sustainability of mineral sands mining in Senegal by relying on committed, competent and motivated employees who are the richness of our organization.

Purpose of the position

Our Automation and Control Department is looking for an Electricity, Control System & Instrumentation Specialist (M/F) on a permanent basis contract based in Diogo, Senegal with a rotational schedule status (5 weeks ON x 3 weeks OFF) for expats and residence basis status for locals.

The EC&I Specialist will bring his/her operational support for control systems, instrumentation, VSD programming and electrical fault-finding and will uphold standards in his/her discipline.

He/She will be involved in improvement project execution and will give support on an extension greenfield project.

Also, he/she will be the back-to-back of the Head of Automation & Control department.

Responsibilities

• Guarantee the respect of procedures of safety, environment and process for him/herself and for his/her team
• Assist the Central Maintenance Manager with maintenance process improvement or others punctual company need (OPEX projects management, coaching of GCO employees
• Increase the reliability and service costs of EC&I equipment through obsolescence planning due to aging plant; revision of the maintenance plans; and review installations or alternative equipment to improve availability and reduce downtimes.
• MOC approval for additional electrical installations, addition of instruments or adjustment to PLC code
• Implementation of PLC and SCADA changes, updates, revision control.
• Project management and implementation of internal and expansion projects.
• Support the operational teams on field when necessary.

About you 

• Engineering degree.
• Experience of at least 10 years of maintenance within Controls System
• Process control systems maintenance.
• PLC, SCADA and HMI development.
• VSD setup
• Telemetry systems
• Process oriented with a strong operational discipline.
• Safety oriented
• CAPEX project scoping and management
• Experience in heavy industry
• Team worker and trainer profile
• Capacity of negotiations and transversal management
• Advantage : experience with Aveva Wonderware, Emmerson PLC, Siemens VSD
• Minerals Sand experience advantage
• Minimum fluent English spoken and written skills, French spoken and written skills will be a differential.