Intermediate Control and Automation Engineer
On-site · Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Job Summary
Intermediate Control & Automation Engineer provides support to the Senior Control & Automation Engineer and the Project Engineering Manager and will be part of a team of systems and process control engineers and designers. The role involves defining system requirements to achieve project results, preparing engineering deliverables and budgets, maintaining scope-of-work documentation, coordinating design reviews (S&PC), conducting process safety reviews (HAZOP/HAZID/SIL), ensuring cross-discipline coordination, performing quality audits, promoting ethical practices, ensuring compliance with health, safety, environment, and community standards, supporting value engineering with emphasis on energy management, tracking lessons learned, and communicating safety requirements for site work. The position also emphasizes leadership, engagement with risk mitigation, and identifying business opportunities within a flexible work environment. The candidate should have a recognized degree in engineering (or equivalent), substantial project engineering experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and preferably professional engineer/technologist registration. The posting also notes Hatch’s commitment to diversity and the POPIA processing notice. More specific responsibilities include leading by example on safety, coordinating with S&PC and other disciplines, and promoting safety and safety design practices across projects.
Required Qualifications
- A recognized degree in electric/electronic/relevant engineering from an accredited college or university or a technical qualification with extensive practical experience would also be acceptable
- Experience working on large projects in a multidisciplinary environment
- Ability to lead individuals in a team environment to attain quality, cost and schedule objectives
- Strong deliverables focus
- Ability to plan the work
- A high degree of understanding of interdisciplinary dependencies related to the discipline
- Good understanding of procurement, contracting and commissioning methodologies
- Technical exposure to the equipment technologies related to the project
- Good understanding of Hatch systems and workflows as they relate to the S&PC discipline
- Thorough understanding of Hatch’s Health, Safety, Environment, and Community (HSEC) policy and standards
- Strong leadership skills
- Well developed communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Registration as, or in the process of registering as a professional engineer or technician/technologist with the relevant regions professional engineering body
- Minimum 7 years of project engineering experience
- Knowledge of Hatch’s 3D data centric design systems
- Extensive knowledge of Hatch’s engineering management systems
- Strong ability to manage tasks and promote the effective performance of team members
- Sound technical experience of the major equipment
- Extensive experience in the use of procedures and workflows in the execution of projects
- Strong client focus
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