jobs and cvS of interest to our members
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Brendon Morton - Instrument Mechanician (Posted 27 June 2008)
Brendon has just arrived in New Zealand to actively job seek. He is a trade
tested Instrumentation Technician with electrical experience. He has experience
with plant installations, maintenance, calibrations on pneumatic and Profibus
equipment, analyser and valves as well as extensive experience in PLC's
including ABB, Honeywell, Provox, Genisis and Siemens. He was the only artisan
involved in a large expansion of the Sappi plant including new plant commissioning
of a 280 ton recovery boiler, a Demin plant, a Methanol plant and the evaporation
plant.
He has worked on transmitters including Fuji, Rosemount, Yokogawa, ABB and
E & H, valves including Fisher, Neles and Mitek, as well as So2, O2
and Co2 analysers. His electrical experience was on small plants which included
pumps, motors, controlled circuits, PLC's and domestic installations. He
did not complete a trade in electrical, just work experience. Brendon is
a very positive young man, extremely fond of outdoor sports including horse
riding, mountain biking and snowboarding and has the ability to push himself
to be a high achiever. He believes in his capabilities and would like to
work for a company that will use his already gained experience but also
that will recognise that he would like to further his career in the near
future and his aim would be to complete his engineering degree in design
concepts.
Brendon is open to a role anywhere on the North Island. Please call Jan
at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz
to schedule an interview with Brendon.
Mervyn Prinsloo - Instrument Mechanician (Industrial Instrumentation and Process Control) (Posted 27 June 2008)
Mervyn is an Instrumentation Technician who visited New Zealand about 2 months ago to actively job seek. He has decided to return permanently and is actively job seeking and arrives on the 15th May. He has a brother already settled here and would like to find a position on the North Island if possible. He has a diploma as well as an apprenticeship in Instrumentation with experience in sugar manufacturing which can be crossed over into other industries. He has experience in general maintenance of industrial automation, installation of various project work, commissioning and fault finding, all general Instrumentation functions, running of own sections, project work (install ,programming and commission) SCADA development (Fix, Panelmate, Intouch and Magelis), PLC programming (Modicon - Concept, Modsoft, Yokogawa Ys170) controller programming, loop tuning and process optimisation, AC / DC drives and UPS up to 550V. He also ran the Instrument department in the Foreman's absence.
Mervyn was then promoted to Foreman which is where he is currently running the department. His role encompasses budget creation and control, capital projects implementation from finance to technical completion, routine planned maintenance, technical selection, buying and installation of all instrumentation and attended production and maintenance meetings.
Mervyn will be available for interviews from the 16th May. Mervyn would enjoy a role anywhere on the North Island. Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule an interview with Mervyn.
Pieter Mayoss - Electrical / Instrumentation Technician (Posted 16 April
2008)
Pieter has just arrived in New Zealand to actively job seek and is an apprenticed
Electrician with Instrumentation experience. He started in the chemical
industry as an electrician where he did planned maintenance and installations
of 220V - 500V ac systems and 12 - 24V Dc instrumentation systems. He designed,
wired and installed switchboards and control panels, installed and maintained
low and high pressure chemical dosing pumps and power supply to all installations
including conduit wires, Norse cables and multi pair screened instrument
cables.
His instrumentation experience includes Pneumatic and electrical control
valves, pressure regulating valves. (Air and Fluids.) flow meters and switches,
pressure censors for level control, probed level control, pH transmitters
and controllers, Redox (O.R.P) transmitters, turbidity transmitters and
controllers, T.D.S controllers for cooling systems and boilers, temperature
controllers, Chlorine dosing and control systems mainly Alldose, Tasc drive
motor speed control for dosing systems, various other speed controllers
for dosing systems as well as SCADA and Direct Control Systems (D.C.S)
Industries Pieter has worked in include petrochemical, paper manufacturing,
chemical manufacturing plants, mines including water purification systems
and cooling systems as well as all domestic installations and maintenance.
He has been assessed by the EWRB and will be issued a provisional license
once he has a job offer. Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476
4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule
an interview with Pieter.
Stephen Smith - Instrumentation Technician / Trainer (Posted 17 March 2008)
Stephen did an apprenticeship as an electrician and spent a year doing electrical
work in a mine and then completed an apprenticeship in Instrumentation and
worked as a technician for four years before becoming an instrumentation
training officer. He arrives in New Zealand on the 25th March for 2 weeks
to actively job seek. He is prepared to go back to a hands on position but
would also be comfortable training apprentices as part of his job. In his
present position he trains all apprentices from around the country in accordance
with the South African mining qualification authority, maintains ISO standards,
attends instrumentation workshops, develops training manuals, controls budget
expenditure and assists in the auditing of the group of companies to ensure
they comply with ISO standards.
Stephen's strengths include an easy going personality, an understanding
of production issues, excellent organizational skills and good work ethics.
Stephen would need a job offer to apply for a work permit which he is eligible
for and once he has an offer Crown will facilitate the process for him.
Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz
to schedule an interview with Stephen.
Paul Glasson - Instrumentation Technician/Electrical Fitter (Posted 28
February 2008)
Paul is an Instrumentation Technician/Electrical Fitter who is visiting
New Zealand from the 3rd to the 13th March to actively job seek. He has
experience in the Pulp and Paper, Chemical and Motor manufacturing industries.
In his current position he is in charge of all factory instrumentation,
supervising 4 artisans and electrical contractors, planning and execution
of breakdowns and scheduled maintenance, equipment upgrades as well as purchasing
and stock control. He has been involved in new plant projects with loop
design, installation and commissioning. The plants he works in include the
fermentation, evaporators and granulation plants. He has worked on ABB,
Omron, Honeywell and Endress and Hauser PLC's.
Paul has a broad based field equipment experience and is a team player and
feels that dedication to his job is his main strength. He spent the start
of his career as a teacher and would be good at training apprentices if
need be. Paul will be available for interviews while he is in New Zealand
and would like to live somewhere on the North Island. Please call Jan at
Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz
to schedule an interview with Paul.
Eddie Butler - Project Support Engineer: Electrical / Inst. / SCADA (Posted
17 July 2007)
Eddie arrived in New Zealand a few weeks ago permanently with his family
and is looking for a position in Auckland. He has just finished up with
a Consultancy in the UK as Project Support engineer/client rep as part of
a project team engineering electrical installations and SCADA technical
support. He acted as the client representative liaising with consultants
and principle contractors on capital schemes. He checked and approved design
and commissioning documentation, engineering drawings and progressed all
documentation and manuals to hand over stage. He has worked in the water
and wastewater industries, oil and gas as well as industrial engineering
industries. He feels that his skills can crossover into any industry that
needs electrical/control systems project management.
Eddie has a good knowledge of design but does not have the manual expertise
to use design packages but is open to learning. He is computor literate
though. As he started as a hands on electrician he feels that through the
years he has gained so much knowledge and experience that he is well equipped
to work in any industry. He is well presented and comes across as a very
reliable, competent person who would enjoy the responsibility of running
projects and managing people.
Eddie has permanent residency, can make an immediate start and is available
for interviews immediately. Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476
4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule
an interview with Eddie.
Jacob Roos - Electrical / Fitter (Posted 6 July 2007)
Jacob has just arrived in New Zealand to activelky job seek. He is a trade
tested and time served Millwright and has 16 years work experience. He has
worked for an aluminium manufacturer and his main areas of responsibility
were the gas treatment centre, the Alumina silos and the conveying systems.
During his shifts he recorded trailer loads, gas flow and silo levels on
spreadsheets using SAP, did breakdowns and planned maintenance on 220v AC
and 12-24v DC control panels and 380v main circuits. He read electrical
circuit drawings and did panel wiring from circuit drawings, fault finding
on PLC programs and tested and connected 3 phase electrical motors. He did
fault finding on cranes, wiring and pendants and fixing of hot rails.
He can read mechanical drawings and pneumatic and hydraulic circuit drawings,
change bearings and plumber blocks as well as maintenance and repairs of
roots blowers, gearboxes and fans. His supervisory control and data acquisition
is operated on a SCADA system. He uses multimeters, line testers, earth
leakage testers, welding machines, impact tools, pneumatic and electrical
drills, a bench grinder and a gasket cutter. He can operate a forklift and
cranes.
Jacob is a hands on person and very reliable and a conscientious worker
and would prefer to maintain a hands on role. He comes with an excellent
reference. Jacob would like to live and work anywhere on the North Island.
Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz
to schedule an interview with Jacob.
Riaz Nair - Instrumentation Technician (Posted 14 June 2007)
Riaz is an instrumentation technician who arrived in New Zealand on the 5th April to actively job search. He has been working in the petrochemical industry for 6 years and has hands on experience in fault finding on instrument loops, electrical drawings, TDC 2000 and 3000, Moore control system and Texas PLC, overhauling of instruments, fault finding on level, temperature, pressure, auot control and cascade control applications, implementing of new projects and instruments, working on SAP system and calibration of valves and transmitters.
Riaz is young and is looking for a company that can utilise his skills but also offer him a career in New Zealand. He is open to living anywhere on the North Island. Please find his CV attached and please contact Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule an interview with Riaz.
Llewellyn Viljoen - Electyrical Technologist (Posted 14 June 2007)
Llewellyn visited New Zealand in February to actively job seek and has just arrived back in New Zealand to settle permanently. He has a Diploma in Technology Telecommunications where he spent a number of years doing maintenance work as well as lecturing and training staff. He then moved into designing and implementation of an in-house EMC/EMI testing facility, specialized electrical and mechanical design of components not commercially available as well as electrical systems engineering designing, developing, procuring and intergration of complete control systems on military vehicles. He has headed up a team of technical writers developing in-house technical courses and developed a high voltage cable and testing rig for a specialized installation. This involved the mechanical design as well using Pro Engineer.
Llewellyn has excellent diagnostics skills and fault finding experience, systems testing and analysis. He has worked with sensors, DC motors, analog switch panels, power distribution panels, harnesses, fire protection systems and schematic and PCB layout. Llewellyn is an open, friendly excellent communicator and is very fastidious in his work. He comes with a very good reference from his direct manager. He is open to living anywhere in New Zealand and can make an immidate start.
Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule an interview with Llewellyn.
Pieter van Zyl - Engineering Technician Control Systems/PLCs/SCADA (Updated 14 June 2007)
Pieter has a diploma in Engineering and has a trade as a Millwright as well as courses in PLC's and control systems. He has just been made redundant and is looking for a new position. He is currently developing control solutions for customers on Modicon, Allen Bradley and other PLC’s, as well as Kingfisher telemetry systems and Scada packages such as, Citect, Proficy iFix, Intouch and Fix Dmacs. He does the software engineering and development on all the above PLC’s and Scada systems. He is also responsible for training customers’ maintenance personnel on all the above products that they supply to them. Technical support forms a major part of his daily tasks and he has to travel vast distances to provide customers with support and back-up. Previously to this he was a hands on Senior engineering technician in a coal terminal where he maintained all control systems, did all software engineering and development, upgrades and commissioning after upgrades, engineering of SCADA systems, project management from planning into implementation, budget control, sourcing and procurement of plant spares and managing the shift millwrights.
Pieter has experience in a mine supervising maintenance teams both on the surface and underground, doing power reticulation on 11KV of the whole mine, water reticulation, shaft inspections and maintenance planning. His additional experience encompasses switchgear and motors, DC drives, CCTV, RF security controls, conveyors, hydraulics and pneumatics, compressors, furnaces and vibration feeders and screens.
Pieter is available for interviews with a bit of notice as he is still employed. He will look at positions all over New Zealand. Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule an interview with Pieter.
Johan Botha - Instrument Technician (Updated 14 June 2007)
Johan has arrived in New Zealand and is actively job seeking. He is a trade tested Instrumentation Technician with courses in Yokogawa, Siemens Simatic and Turbolink SCADA. He has just finished up as maintenance technologist where he provided technical expertise which impacted on the availability of systems and equipment. The company is a plastics manufacturer manufacturing polymers using blow film, extrusion coating and laminating, thermoforming as well as sheet extrusion methods to name a few. He worked with the reliability engineer developing an equipment maintenance strategy as well as participating in developing the maintenance budget. He can draft loop drawings using AutoCAD and Bently Micro-Station, can evaluate condition based monitoring activites and can maintain documentation such as loop drawings, spec sheets and hook up drawings.
Johan is happy to maintain a hands on position in Instrumentation as he believes that this is the only way to get to know the systems in a company. He has a positive attitude to life and is prepared to make the move to New Zealand a permanent one for his family. He qualifies for permanent residency and would just need a job offer to complete this process. He is happy to look at living anywhere in New Zealand. He is available for interviews at the moment.
Please find his CV attached and please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule an interview with Johan.
Roy Naude - Electronics System Analyst/Project Manager (Posted 7 March 2007)
Roy is a degree qualified Electronics engineer who is arriving in New Zealand on the 4th March until the 16th March to actively job seek. He has permanent residency. He specialized in mathematical modelling and simulation of systems, optimizing control loop designs and specifications. Roy has experience as a system analyst and project manager for an electronic and mechanical design, test and manufacturing company. He generates and maintains simulation software using it as a tool to improve all phases including navigation, aerodynamics, control systems and general performance of the system. He has done the development of a launch vehicle for satellite systems as well as the technical responsibility for the 1553B data bus communication and hardware.
Roy has visited New Zealand before and really wants to settle here. He would prefer to live anywhere on the North Island but will consider the South Island as well. he will be available for interviews from the 5th March. Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule an interview with Roy.
Bradley Paulse - Instrumentation/Electrical Technician (Posted 7 March 2007)
We met with Bradley in South Africa on a recruitment drive and he has decided to travel to New Zealand to actively job seek. He is in Auckland at the moment but is happy to look at positions all over the country.
He has a diploma in Electrical Engineering and has experience in instrumentation doing maintenance, repairs and calibration of pneumatic instrumentation which involved valves, gauges, transmitter switches, calibration of all temperature, flow, pressure and level process loops. In his current position he has gained experience in PLC's, SCADA and all types of control system equipment. He has worked on Allen Bradley as well as Rockwell and variable speed drives. He has experience compiling C & I maintenance procedures as well.
Bradley is well presented and communicated and is confident in his abilities. He would like to move up into a supervisory position once he has gained hands on New Zealand experience as he feels that he will a good leader one day. Bradley is available for interviews and can make a start as soon as he has a job offer, Bradley is open to a role anywhere in New Zealand.
Please call Jan at Crown Recruitment on 09 476 4036 or email jan@crown.co.nz to schedule an interview with Bradley.
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