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Step into a Instrumentation Technician role in Richards Bay and make your mark across KwaZulu-Natal. The team is hiring now and wants to hear from sharp, committed candidates.
Overview
The organisation is investing in its Richards Bay operation, and this Instrumentation Technician position reflects that commitment. The successful candidate will work across the engineering jobs function and contribute to the wider KwaZulu-Natal business.
Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Richards Bay team.
Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the engineering jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Richards Bay much easier.
Diversity and Inclusion
Diverse teams build stronger workplaces. Applications are welcome from candidates of every background, language and community across KwaZulu-Natal, and recruitment is fair, transparent and aligned with the EE Act.
Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Richards Bay.
Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across KwaZulu-Natal.
What Your Day Looks Like
Mornings often begin on site, walking through plant or project areas with the team and picking up where yesterday’s work ended. You move between technical reviews, contractor discussions and hands-on troubleshooting, balancing safety, cost and quality at every decision point. The afternoon might involve drawings, reports or a planning session for an upcoming shutdown. By the time you knock off, you have kept production running, advanced the project plan and helped the team go home safely.
In addition, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when KwaZulu-Natal operations throw up the unexpected.
No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Richards Bay.
Why This Role
You will join a team that values respectful collaboration, honest feedback and shared wins. The Richards Bay colleagues take pride in supporting one another and in doing the engineering jobs side of the business properly, day in and day out.
Importantly, the company reinvests in its people: paid training, internal moves and the chance to take on bigger projects are all part of how careers in Richards Bay keep progressing.
Benefits are clear and consistent. Beyond the package on offer, the role includes the supports you would expect from an established South African employer in KwaZulu-Natal.
Your Role
- Maintain calibration, asset and plant maintenance records
- Plan, execute and close out engineering projects within scope, time and budget
- Lead root-cause analyses on production losses and quality defects
- Diagnose breakdowns and implement corrective and preventative maintenance
- Conduct site inspections and progress meetings with contractors
Who We’re Looking For
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills
- Awareness of B-BBEE and skills development obligations
- Commitment to safe, ethical and sustainable engineering practice
- 3-5 years’ relevant engineering experience in industry
- Working knowledge of CAD packages (AutoCAD, SolidWorks or similar)
- Sound knowledge of the OHS Act and applicable SANS standards
Potential is considered alongside experience, so candidates who tick most of these boxes should still be considered.