Company with their speciality in Engineering / Manufacturing for the mining sector company with an internation...

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7 months ago

Engineer

Company with their speciality in Engineering / Manufacturing for the mining sector company with an international footprint requires the services of a skilled Electronic Engineer

Responsibilities:  

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

1.1 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Objectives:

- Contribute to the overall engineering activities related to the delegated tasks

- Contribute towards, draft and present for review relevant engineering documentation in accordance with delegated tasks

- Contribute and actively participate in general engineering activities (meetings, discussions, activities, engineering change requests, etc)

- Actively participate in and contribute towards engineering reviews, including documentation reviews and project reviews

- Contribute to overall engineering team performance and successes

- Manage the engineering effort (internal activities and activities by contractors/suppliers) for adhering to established engineering standards and principles

- Ensure that the engineering effort achieve and maintains its goals and objectives

- Comply with and apply internally defined and established engineering standards and policies

- Ensure that the engineering effort reaches its agreed progress milestones

- Provide recommendations for engineering process improvement

- Assist with project closure

Measure:

- Quality of contributions towards systems engineering process management

1.2 SYSTEMS REQUIREMENT/ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN MANAGEMENT

Objectives:

- Ensure that new and/or changed requirements, architecture and/or designs are communicated effectively through the use of the appropriate mechanisms and channels

- Initiate and contribute to the following tasks resulting from changes to existing requirements, architectures and designs:

o Determine the complexity and scope of suggested changes

o Identify conflicts or incompatibilities with existing systems

o Identify conflicts or incompatibilities with existing requirements, architectures and designs

o Conduct risk analysis

o Conduct cost/benefit analysis related to the change(s)

o Estimate resource requirements to complete the work

- Produce documentation or its equivalent, that can be systematically reviewed, evaluated and approved

Measure:

- Quality of requirements management and requirements control

1.3 REQUIREMENTS, ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN ANALYSIS

Objectives:

- Detect, communicate and resolve conflicts between requirements, architectures and designs

- Determines and confirm the scope and bounds of the system and how it must interact with its environment

- Decompose system requirements into lower-level requirements, architecture and designs

Measure:

- Quality of contribution

1.4 REQUIREMENT ELICITATION

Objectives:

- Identify requirement sources such as stakeholders, operational environment and general domain knowledge

- Conduct requirement elicitation techniques such as meetings, interviews, observations, testing, scenarios, prototypes and conceptual models

Measure:

- Quality of system requirements and control thereof

1.5 REQUIREMENT, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN VALIDATION

Objectives:

- Actively participate in reviews of requirements, architectures and designs

- Comply with established standards and best operating practice

- Perform prototyping and modelling to validate interpretation of requirements, architecture and designs

- Identify related problems before resources are committed to addressing designs and architectures

Measure:

- Quality of contribution

1.6 QUALITY ATTRIBUTES

Objectives:

- Actively manage and maintain run-time system quality attributes (performance, security, availability, maintainability, functionality, usability)

- Actively manage and maintain structural quality attributes (modifiability, portability, reusability, integrity and testability)

- Architectural attributes (conceptual integrity, correctness, completeness)

Measure:

- Quality of contribution

1.7 ARCHITECTURAL ATTRIBUTES

Objectives:

- Address architectural viewpoints

o Logical view (functional requirements)

o Process view (concurrency issues)

o Data modelling view (data structuring and handling issues)

o Physical view (distribution issues)

o Development view (how design is decomposed into implementation units)

- Address product families through identification of commonalities among similar products. Exploit these as reuse opportunities and customise components to address variability between family members

Measure:

- Quality of contribution

1.8 IMPLEMENT DESIGN STRATEGY

Objectives:

- Implement the design strategy

- Address construction-level detailed design issues, produce appropriate documentation and identify conflicts with architectural or high-level design decisions.

Measure:

- Quality of contribution towards design

1.9 INTEGRATION

Objectives:

- Arrange and planning the sequence in which components are to be integrated

- Provide support for the integration process

Measure:

- Quality of contribution

1.10 TESTING

Objectives:

- Perform appropriate engineering testing

- Generate test instructions

- Ensure traceability is maintained

- Maintain test records

Measure:

- Quality of contribution

1.11 CONFIGURATION

Objectives:

- All documentation to be configured in accordance with internal configuration management policies and procedures

- Issue tracking to be conducted in accordance with established standards and procedures

- Actively participate in formal baseline establishments

- Adherence to ECR processes and procedures

- Preservation of the integrity and traceability of the configuration throughout the system life cycle

Measure:

- Quality of contribution

2 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

2.1 BUDGET AND PROJECT INPUTS

Objectives:

- Provide inputs required for project scoping (work breakdown, coordination)

- Provide inputs for project scheduling and estimation (timescales, required level-of-effort)

- Identify assumptions and potential risks to be considered during estimation and scoping

- Suggest risk reduction and mitigation measures

- Identify opportunities for project artefact reuse

- Identify opportunities for efficiency and savings

Measure:

- Quality of inputs to project scoping, estimation and overall successes

2.2 INPUTS TO CONTRACTOR/SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

Objectives:

- Provide inputs required for contractor’s/supplier’s estimated levels-of-effort (work breakdown, coordination)

- Prepare Statements Of Work (SOW’s) for contractors’ work allocations as required by project management

- Identify assumptions and potential risks to be considered during estimation and scoping

- Suggest risk reduction and mitigation measures

- Implement risk reduction and mitigation measures to ensure contractors’/suppliers’ success

- Ensure contractors’/suppliers’ deliverables meet quality and performance criteria prior to invoice sign-offs

- Confirm contractors’/supplier’s invoices match deliverables and quoted level-of-effort invoiced for

Measure:

- Quality of inputs towards overall effective management and successes of contractors/suppliers

3 TEAM PARTICIPATION

3.1 DIVISIONAL AND PROJECT TEAM GOALS

Objectives:

- Actively manage the engineering process to ensure the achievement of divisional and project team goals

Measure:

- Level and quality of contribution to goals

- Level of participation and initiative within teams

- Interpersonal skills with peers and management

- Realisation of development schedule

- General conduct

- Assistance with mentoring of team members

3.2 WORK ETHIC

Objectives:

- To uphold the company’s code of ethics

Measure:

- Adherence to company’s code of ethics

3.3 ENGINEERING ETHICS AND TECHNICAL INTEGRITY

Objectives:

- To ensure professional company engineering ethics and technical integrity

Measure:

- Behaviour with regards to engineering ethics and technical integrity

Measure:

- Quality of requirements management and requirements control

4 CLIENT MANAGEMENT

4.1 SUPPORT FOR INTERNAL CLIENTS

Objectives:

- Provide cooperation and support for:

o Marketing and business development

o Production

o Project office

o Project development

o R&D projects

Measure:

- Satisfaction level of supported departments

- Effective client relationships

4.2 SUPPORT FOR EXTERNAL CLIENTS

Objectives:

- Provide support for new business development proposals and presentations interfacing with client during development and product support

Measure:

- Satisfaction level of external clients

- Effective client relationship maintained

Periodic client satisfaction rating conducted

5 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

  • BTech degree or BSc in electronic/computer engineering
  • 5+ years experience in the Electronic Engineering field
  • Experience in developing for harsh environmental conditions
  • Hardware and Software R&D Experience non-negotiable
  • Gas detection Technologies experience beneficial
  • Intrinsic Safety experience beneficial
  • Knowledge of Collision Warning and Detection Technologies beneficial
  • Familiar with wireless communication technologies
  • Experience in working in a multi-disciplinary environment non-negotiable
Reach me at the detail below.

Thank you,

Theresa Steenkamp

Key Account Manager - Network Contracting Solutions 

tsteenkamp at networkcontracting co za