Assistant Engineer, Instrumentation Job at Dangote Group

Dangote Group is one of Nigeria’s most diversified business conglomerates with a hard – earned reputation for excellent business practices and products’ quality with its operational headquarters in the bustling metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria in West Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Assistant Engineer, Instrumentation

Job Location: Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Oversee preventive, corrective, troubleshooting, shutdown, and both major and minor maintenance activities across a range of instrumentation.
• Lead a team of technicians performing fundamental instrumentation maintenance tasks as scheduled, ensuring optimal equipment availability and accuracy while adhering to all internal maintenance procedures, best practices, and safety regulations and protocols.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Execute routine check-ups of instrumentation equipment according to maintenance schedule plan, workload, manpower availability and company procedures.
• Coordinate the testing, repairing, calibration and trouble shooting of the Instrumentation Control systems.
• Allocate work orders and supervise instrumentation technicians in the execution of activities ensuring adherence to established standards and guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with HSE procedures during maintenance work.
• Liaise with Mechanical and Electrical sections and establish a seamless integration between operation and maintenance teams.
• Prepare and review various maintenance performance reports such as Preliminary Failure and Root Cause Analysis Reports.
• Evaluate the manpower requirement for daily preventive, break down and shutdown maintenance and prepare the job schedule.
• Monitor the work order status for obstacles, and to re-schedule the task if required.
• Endorse work feedback and close out work orders in the maintenance database.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Section Head.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Electronics, Automation or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience.

Skills and Competencies:

• Good knowledge of instrumentation operation, monitoring and maintenance.
• Good communication skills.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication, people management and interpersonal skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good networking and teaming skills.
• Proficiency in the use of office productivity tools.