Instrumentation Technician

About the role

The Barrick Africa Middle East Team is looking for an Instrumentation Technician to join its plant operations. You will be responsible for maintaining, calibrating and troubleshooting a wide range of instrumentation and control equipment, ensuring safe and efficient plant performance.

Key responsibilities

• Perform daily inspections, maintenance and calibration of pressure, temperature, flow‑meter and valve sensors.
• Execute isolation and lock‑out procedures and adhere to HSE policies.
• Troubleshoot process‑control and engineering problems on electrical, electronic, pneumatic and PLC systems.
• Inspect, test, adjust and repair instrumentation, recording all calibrations and parts used.
• Maintain accurate inventory of spare parts and ensure sufficient stock of critical sensors.
• Apply 5S housekeeping standards and report any safety or equipment defects immediately.
• Review engineering specifications, schematics and blueprints to determine work procedures.
• Provide shift handover reports and proactively address performance deviations.

Required profile

• Degree or Diploma in Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation or Industrial Automation.
• Instrumentation Trade Test certificates.
• Minimum 2 years post‑trade‑test experience in an industrial setting.
• Knowledge of diagnostics and plant control philosophy.

Required skills

• Instrumentation
• Process control
• PLC systems
• Electrical troubleshooting
• Electronic troubleshooting
• Pneumatic systems
• Mechanical instrumentation
• Calibration
• Reading schematics and blueprints
• Isolation and lockout procedures
• Sensor maintenance (pressure, temperature, flow meters, valves)