Job Description
Opportunities exist for Electronic / Computer engineers who are keen to pursue a career in applications engineering and customer liaison with mining and industrial clients.
Employment type: Probationary 3 month contract then permanent employment thereafter.
Description:
Our client develops electronic systems for the South African mining and industrial sector. They are situated in Randburg, and their core focus is the development of leading-edge technologies and products for application in environmentally and electrically harsh environments.
Responsibilities:
The position encompasses the following duties:
- Attendance of technical meetings to assist the customer in understanding our systems
- Preparation of training, operational testing, and change request documentation.
- Providing technical support to the customer and assisting with fault finding / configuration problems.
- Customer liaison & requirements analysis
- Remote support / problem solving
The successful candidate can expect to be exposed to the entire technical product life cycle from development & prototyping through to volume manufacture and obsolescence / system replacement.
Requirements:
Candidates should have strong interests in the following:
- Hands on technical problem solving.
- Understanding of complex systems.
- Professional technical communication with clients
- Technical risk management
Additional experience in the following areas is given preference:
- Familiarity with the Linux command line.
- Familiarity with common IT systems architectures / networking
- Familiarity with system design & development.
- Understanding of the mining industry.
Personal qualities that we are looking for in a candidate:
- Accountability & integrity.
- Initiative taker
- Strong aptitude for fault finding from system to component level.