Head of Automation and Instrumentation Department

İşin təsviri

Job description

Head of Automation and Instrumentation Department within Maintenance Department

Location: Qazax Sement Zavodu LLC, Qazax, Azerbaijan

Reporting line: Maintenance Manager / Electrical Maintenance Manager

OVERALL MISSION

 Ensure completion of instrumentation, automization and control systems
maintenance jobs with the highest level of quality, safety and effectiveness at
minimum cost to maximize equipment availability
 Embrace preventive and predictive maintenance practices, and contribute to their
improvement
 Manage and motivate his team, ensures co‐ordination and co‐operation between his
and other departments.

MAIN ACTIVITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

 Is responsible for the execution and the quality of maintenance work to be carried
out on plant instrumentation and automation equipment and systems (hardware
and software), respecting budget, policies and deadlines
 Can implement changes in the process control systems applied by programming the
relevant algorithms and train his staff to do so as well
 Contributes in his field, to the development of working methods and definition of
procedures and ensures their implementation
 Optimize maintenance operations, using best available tools and procedures to
maximize equipment availability
 Ensure proper day‐to‐day scheduling of works and necessary resources; assign and
review work to be performed with the craftsmen
 Ensure completion of major operations within schedule (e.g. yearly overhaul,
technical projects)
 Ensure, upon completion of repairs, that equipment is in good operating condition,
ready to meet operational requirements, fully inspected, tested, clean and safe
 Provide reporting on repair jobs including consumption of materials, specific tools,
manhours and skills and fills equipment history files
 Take adequate actions when incidents related to instrumentation and automation
occur
 Participate in the 3‐year investment plan
 Manage his team, define the missions and objectives, carry out their performance
reviews, promote the quality of the work, motivate his personnel, facilitate
communication and relationships (regular department meetings, reports to the
hierarchy)
 Ensure on‐going skills enhancement of his team’s employees, helping the
development and implementation of training plans. Coach his team’s employees
 Define his department’s needs for budgeting and negotiate them with his manager
 Keep himself informed of general plant practices to ensure “on‐call” duty.
 Ensure working conditions and safety at work
 Ensure and controls quality of maintenance jobs from subcontractors

METHODS / TOOLS

 International and local industry norms and standards
 Electrical and automation methods and tools
 PLC and other control systems
 Local regulations and legislation regarding the area of operation
 CMMS (still to be implemented)
 Maintenance budget
 Maintenance inspections and job plans
 Methods and tools for safety management
 Root cause analysis

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

 Financial performance:
   o Actual costs versus budgeted costs.
 Technical performance:
   o Reliability, especially raw mill, clinker line and cement mills, packing and
palletizing lines as well as all other electrical and mechanical equipment
failure rate
   o Mean time between failures (MTBF)
   o Planned maintenance activities versus unplanned maintenance activities
 Maintenance Practices
   o Compliance to international and national industry standards and norms as
well as exceeding company rules and regulations
   o Percentage of Best Practices implemented
 Frequency and severity rate if accidents of maintenance personnel and contractors
 Maximum reactivity in case of technical incident

PROFILE OF NECESSARY COMPETENCIES /SKILLS

Educational background & Experience

 Certified electrical and automation engineer with at least 5 years of experience as
automation engineer in heavy industry complexes such as mining, mineral
processing, chemical or metallurgical productions preferably in former CIS country
operations under international supervision
 Serious experience in automation engineering and programming language.

Languages (min level)

 English: fluent
 Russian: fluent
 Azerbaijan: intermediate

Technical skills

Cement Plant automation system control and maintenance including:

 Siemens S7‐200, Siemens S7‐300 and Siemens S7‐400 PLC Stations around the plant,
transferring data via Profibus, Modbus Interfaces.
 Multiple Simatic Local HMI touch panels.
 Redundant Realtime servers with Siemens PCS7 package, CAS server, Engineer
Station, Decentralized Operator workstations.
 Software: Simatic S7, MicroWin, WinCC, WinCC Flexible
 Performing Online changes to PLC program logic to improve the plant production.
 Software, Hardware and PLC logic troubleshooting.
 Providing Security of all private information and data in local area network.
 Performing all needed backup of PLC programs, Software, Databases.
 Performing reports.
 Knowledge of instrumentation and control systems (hardware and software).
 Process knowledge in cement process technology or similar
 Knowledge of hydraulic, pneumatic and motor circuits
 Knowledge in electricity and electronics
 Local Safety rules and regulations
Leadership & Behavioural Skills
 Result driven (reliability, cost)
 Accuracy and precision
 Good aptitude for organization and communication
 Initiative and innovative
 Leadership capacity and proven leadership in managing people and departments

How to apply:

Interested candidates are requested to submit:

• CV to [email protected];
• Put “Head of Automation and Instrumentation Department ” in the subject line

Qazax Sement Zavodu MMC tərəfindən digər vakansiyalar

• Əməyin mühafizəsi üzrə Baş mühəndis
• Əməyin mühafizəsi (SƏTƏMM – HSE) üzrə mühəndis
• Baş mühasib
• Satınalma üzrə baş mütəxəssis
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