Senior Plant Electrician position
Listed on 2026-09-23
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Trades / Skilled Labor
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Electrician/ Electrician Installation
Location: Germiston
Senior Plant Electrician
- Preferably female. Germiston. Maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs complex electrical systems within a heavy industrial manufacturing environment. Maintain, test, and repair high-voltage (HV) and low-voltage (LV) switch gear. Service electrical transformers, substations, and main distribution panels. Troubleshoot Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), primarily Fanuc, Siemens and Allen-Bradley. Diagnose faults in CNC machinery, servo drives, and precision encoders. Calibrate instrumentation loops, sensors, transmitters, and control valves.
Interpret and modify electrical schematics. Maintain electrical systems on heavy forging presses and manipulators. Service gas-fired heat treatment furnaces, burners, and ignition systems. Troubleshoot. Qualifications &
Experience:
Minimum of 5-7 years as a maintenance electrician in a heavy industrial plant. Proven experience with CNC machine tools and automated manufacturing systems. Direct experience working around high-voltage equipment and gas furnaces. PLC diagnostics and industrial networks (Profibus, Ethernet/IP).
Advanced electrical troubleshooting PLC fault-finding (ladder logic)
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