Engineer, Network

Overall Job Purpose 

• The network engineermustprovide technical support in the design and development phase and provide technical skills in the implementation,commissioning and maintenance of the control system network.
• They need toidentify requirements and short comings in the control system network and develop functional and design specifications for the control system networks and various other network components

Specific Job Responsibility

The specific tasks to be performed by the position holder will include; 

The specific tasks to be performed by the position holder will include; 

• Assist in conducting reliability analyses on control system network, 

• Assist in designing and implementing ofnewnetworksolutions and improve resilience of the currentnetworkenvironment, 

• Assist in datanetwork fault investigations on the control system network utilising information from multiple sources e.g.profitrace, 

• Coordinatefiberinstallation and splicingactivities with other departments. 

• Performfiber tests with OTDR’s, light source and meters. 

• Perform installation offiber optic equipment and patch and panels. 

• Perform installation ofnetwork equipment e.g.Scalance switches, repeaters, and OLM’s. 

• Assist in generating and updating ofnetwork drawings, 

• Assist in coordinating and executing proactive development and implementation measures to improve operations and end user satisfaction 

• Assist in coordinating and executing test environments and perform customer factory acceptance tests 

• Coordinate, execute,liaise and provide formal / informal usernetworktraining that may be conducted on Sentinel site  

• Understand the control philosophy of the process plant 

• Any other tasks as may bedelegated upon by the supervisor

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Job SpecificCompetencies  

• Troubleshooting on control system network andfiber networks, 

• Good knowledge and understanding of communication protocols forProfibus-DP,Profibus-PA, and Industrial Ethernet, 

• Understanding of Siemens network components e.g. Repeater, diagnostic repeater,Scalance’s andterminating resistor units, 

• Working knowledge of IndustrialDCS, PLC, SCADA and HMI systems will beadvantageous 

• Practical skill inProfibus DP and PA installations includingnetworkbest practises, 

• Must be able to useprofitrace for fault finding onProfibus networks, 

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office software 

• Working knowledge of Windows computer systems 

• Working knowledge ofinstallation andcommissioningof Engineeringcontrolsystems in a process plant environment will beadvantageous 

• Understanding offiber optic installation, testing and fault finding

KeyJob Attributes

• Excellent communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate with staff whoaren't technically trained, 

• Self-disciplined,motivated and organized, 

• Ability to perform troubleshooting onProfibus-DP/PA networks, 

• Ability to perform troubleshooting on Ethernet networks 

• Ability to perform troubleshooting onfiber optic networks, 

• Mustpossess a basic understanding ofcontrol systemtopologies, 

• Exceptional skills in the ability to prioritize workload 

• Ability to work un-supervised on different projects simultaneously 

• Organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your workload

Experience required to perform in this job 

• 4+ years Fibre Optic splicing experience; 

• 5+ years control system network experience 

• Minimum of2 years of experience in industrial automated control systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering or relatedqualification; 

• Registered member of the Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ) 

• Ability to register as a member of the Engineering Registration Board of Zambia (ERB)

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