Overview
Control & Instrumentation Engineer Jobs in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa at ExecutivePlacements.com
Title: Control & Instrumentation Engineer
Company: ExecutivePlacements.com
Location: Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa
Control & Instrumentation Engineer
Recruiter:
Staff Solutions Recruitment
Job Ref:
E.L003222/BG
Date posted:
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Location:
Sandton, South Africa
Salary:
Negotiable Monthly
SUMMARY:
New Vacancy!! A well known Water Treatment Operation based in Sandton is looking to employ a Control & Instrumentation Engineer to join their team.
POSITION INFO:
Job Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of existing automation and reporting software
- Drive development of industrial automation tools
- Continuous improvement and development of industrial automation software
- Providing operational support with regards to monitoring and control systems; perform requested
- software changes; providing guidance and support to EC&I technicians.
- Contribute to developing standards, templates and control logic
- Implementation of control software
- Develop reporting and monitoring tools using Ignition/SQL/Flow tools
- Develop Ignition Perspective templates
- Maintain existing reporting and monitoring software package(s)
- Develop and implement integration between software packages (as and when required).
Job Requirements:
- Qualifications: B.Eng (Electronic/Mechatronic/Control & Instrumentation);
- Minimum of >5 years’ experience in industrial automation
- Strong software development skills
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience on Ignition platforms (Vision, Perspective) as well as Adroit.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in on-site commissioning and/or operational support, preferably within the water treatment sector.
- Strong interest and experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence and Data Science.
- Well experienced in:
- Siemens TIA Portal, Step 7 Software
- Ignition Vision, Perspective platforms
- Schneider Unity software database, such as MS SQL
- Ignition Flow software
- Adroit control systems (SCADA, HMI, IloT)
- EcoStruxure control Expert Software for Modicon PLCs (schneider)
- Suitable experiences in:
- Interpreting P&ID drawings
- VSD configurations
- Industrial communication protocols, such as Profinet, Modbus TCPIP, etc
- Interest in engineering methodologies and technologies.
- Must be able to meet deadlines.
- Self-sufficient, responsible, organised.