{"id":21142,"date":"2025-10-09T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/apprentice-instrumentation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:24:11","slug":"apprentice-instrumentation","status":"expired","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/?post_type=job_listing&p=21142","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice: Instrumentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job Advert Summary\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tGuided by its purpose to provide products for patients to alleviate pain and suffering and improve their quality of life, NBI\u2019s vision is to be the leading African manufacturer and supplier of quality therapeutic proteins and diagnostic products.<br \/>\n\tNational Bioproducts Institute NPC has a vacancy for the role of Apprentice: Instrumentation. The successful incumbent will be responsible for:<br \/>\n\tSupporting GMP compliant manufacture of pharmaceutical products by ensuring maximum online time of process Utility services supplied to Manufacturing.<br \/>\n\tLearning to perform routine maintenance on the machines.<br \/>\n\tConducting daily checks on machines and their support services.<br \/>\n\tEvaluating and facilitate repairs of plant equipment and identify actions to prevent recurrences.<br \/>\n\tAssisting in projects associated with new plant and equipment.<br \/>\n\tProviding cross-functional support.<br \/>\n\tCreating spares inventory and help with spares stock take.<br \/>\n\tMaking wiring diagrams<br \/>\n\tCompleting training needs as laid by institution in order to obtain qualification.<br \/>\n\tApplications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Minimum Requirements\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tN6 or S4 electrical engineering (light current).<\/p>\n<p>Duties &amp; Responsibilities\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Learn the skills required to ensure continued operation of the plant equipment<\/p>\n<p>\tAssist in performing routine checks of all equipment and systems for correct operation<br \/>\n\tSchedule maintenance activities as defined by the preventative maintenance plan<br \/>\n\tFacilitate the calibration of measuring and control instruments according to defined schedules and production requirements<br \/>\n\tMaintaining records and schedules for specified plant and equipment<\/p>\n<p>Learn and facilitate repairs of plant equipment and identify actions to prevent recurrences<\/p>\n<p>\tLearn to analyse problems and determining required maintenance \/repair work to ensure continuity.<br \/>\n\tLiaise with third party contractors where repairs are not possible on site<br \/>\n\tTrack and report on progress of repairs required<\/p>\n<p>Maintenance<\/p>\n<p>\tCo-ordinate maintenance activities on NBI equipment<br \/>\n\tRecords keeping\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stock Control<\/p>\n<p>\tLearn routine stock take of spares<\/p>\n<p>Commissioning unit operations<\/p>\n<p>\tEnsure efficient delivery, on-time delivery of active raw materials.<br \/>\n\tSelect transportation routes to maximise combining shipments or consolidating warehousing and distribution.<br \/>\n\tCold chain management of active raw materials<\/p>\n<p>Support project work\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tsupport capacity expansion projects (CAPEX)<br \/>\n\tsupport continuous process improvements<br \/>\n\tSupervision of t contractors<br \/>\n\tImplementation of SAP change notifications<br \/>\n\tHands-on work<\/p>\n<p>Core Competencies<\/p>\n<p>\tLeading and Influencing Others<br \/>\n\tManaging Relationships<br \/>\n\tPersonal Leadership<br \/>\n\tBusiness Impact<br \/>\n\tAbility and willingness to learn new things.<br \/>\n\tProblem solving and aligning of resources to needs.<br \/>\n\tAccepting accountability, clear decision making and communication.<br \/>\n\tCan both work independently and seek peer review when needed<br \/>\n\tTechnical writing and good oral communication skills<\/p>\n<p>Apply via company website ( N \/ A ) or<\/p>\n<p>nbisa.erecruit.co<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"http:\/\/nbisa.erecruit.co","_company_name":"National Bioproducts Institute","_company_website":"http:\/\/N%20\/%20A","_company_tagline":"NBI is a private, non-profit, pharmaceutical manufacturer of human plasma-derived medicinal products. NBI's core business is to manufacture pharmaceutical products from human plasma, using a process of cold ethanol fractionation. 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