Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer, Epping Mill, Cape Town

Job posting closing date: 18 th November 2026, end of day

As a person, you're a learner, a natural leader, and someone who is always looking for ways to make things better while bringing others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest standards of integrity, safety, and quality, ensuring that your responsibilities deliver sustainable long-term results. In this role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

• Ensure a specific focus area of the Manufacturing Operations' assets is managed, maintained and operated at maximum efficiency. Enabled by digital analysis, the manufacturing process on all assets is controlled and continuously improved so that quality and efficiency is improved in accordance with the operational excellence and reliability pillars. To Lead and execute Projects as set out by the Engineering Manager.
• Operational Excellence
• Perform a leadership role to the Electrical resources.
• Responsible for owning all electrical initiatives and tasks.
• Capable of leading and motivating a team by setting objectives and driving performance management.
• Train, develop and up skill personnel by means of on-the-job as well as technical and generic training
• Corporate Governance, Ethics, Quality, Safety and Housekeeping Standards
• Manages contracts and contractor control procedures and rules for the department.
• Requires understanding of Environmental, legal and K-C statutory requirements.
• Ensure assets are maintained in a "Safe to operate" condition at all times while promoting all aspects of safe working practices to meet all safety and housekeeping objectives of the plant.
• Contribute to the development of sound safety programmes and maintenance of good working conditions, adherence to the organization and legal safety rules and regulations.
• Continually comply with all K-C regulatory & control requirements, internal controls, while at all-times driving accountability and compliance on the asset.
• Manage changes in process requirements brought by changes in product specifications and productivity requirements.
• Project Management
• Manage Projects in line with CPC and CFI as issued by the Engineering Manager.
• Continuous Improvement
• Electrical Engineering
• To optimise the electrical related components of assets within a key focus area of the Mill through the design of new electrical and electronic process control systems together with optimisation / maintenance of existing process control systems in order to achieve optimum plant and process performance according to K-C Reliability pillars.
• Manage changes in process requirements brought by changes in product specifications and productivity requirements.
• Digital Architecture
• Provide technical and operational expertise to achieve quick and timely solutions to SMOM related problems within all site asset team areas.
• Provide support for developing and implementing plans and programs for sustaining the long term growth of SMOM to meet Mill objectives.
• Assist the SMOM to develop and maintain data flows into SMOM (manual entries, PLC inputs, etc.) for generating information from SMOM (reports, dashboards etc.) to drive improved visibility and faster decision making for asset teams, engineers and site leadership.
• Data Analysis
• Analyse and interpret data to enable technical teams to achieve performance targets in accordance with P2030 and Manufacturing best practice.
• Analyse relevant verified data to identify opportunities for improvement in areas of Electrical Engineering and Asset Care across a specific area and in collaboration with cross functional teams.
• Asset Care
• Lead the maintenance strategy on the Assets to provide continuous improvement in uptime and yield.
• Ensure Shift Electrical resources are responsible for first-line asset breakdowns and if unable to resolve to elevate it.
• Support, operations teams on all asset downs (in response to evaluations, feedback, minimising delay.
• Ensure that all the necessary system backups and replacements are in place.

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