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Graduate Trainee Engineer I - Process at SASOL in Sasolburg

Graduate Trainee Engineer I - Process Job Req ID 1999 Closing date 25 September 2023 OME EOP: Sasolburg and Ekandustria Location Sasolburg


Location: Sasolburg, Free State, ZA

Company: Sasol

Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 70-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do. Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. Purpose of Job Sasol Sasolburg Operations invites recently graduated engineers, currently unemployed, to apply for a one year trainee position. The graduate trainee positions are non permanent employment (NPE) positions aimed at providing young engineering professionals the opportunity to gain valuable work experience whilst performing engineering work in the Sasolburg Operations Technical Support environment. The engineering graduate trainees shall work as part of a plant technical support team and be assigned typical duties in technical investigations, plant design documentation maintenance, supporting unit engineers in implementation of small projects and in monitoring and reporting of plant operating status. This programme is thus an “on the job” trainee opportunity within the Technical Support team environment and must not be confused with the Sasol Graduate Development Programme.

Key Accountabilities Chemical / Process Engineering Internship typical duties:

  • Execution of mass and energy balances

  • Review and updating of design documentation such as Equipment Data Sheets and MFD’s in support of plant modification projects or plant as-built status reviews

  • Supporting unit engineers in implementation of plant modification projects

  • Contribute to process safety studies and close-out of existing studies as support to plant unit engineers. This can include investigation and data gathering of plant incidents, calculations of emission quantities during environmental incidents, sizing calculations for Relief valve checks, follow up on actions to close out existing plant modifications, etc

  • Operations support activities during plant maintenance shut down events,

  • Participate in process safety management initiative work such as tank overfill improvement studies, winterization improvements to plant designs, alarm management investigations

  • Support unit engineers with root cause analysis (RCA) activities – collection of incident data and participation in studies to investigate failure incidents.

Recruitment Description Chemical / Process Engineering Internship typical duties:

  • Execution of mass and energy balances

  • Review and updating of design documentation such as Equipment Data Sheets and MFD’s in support of plant modification projects or plant as-built status reviews

  • Supporting unit engineers in implementation of plant modification projects

  • Contribute to process safety studies and close-out of existing studies as support to plant unit engineers. This can include investigation and data gathering of plant incidents, calculations of emission quantities during environmental incidents, sizing calculations for Relief valve checks, follow up on actions to close out existing plant modifications, etc

  • Operations support activities during plant maintenance shut down events,

  • Participate in process safety management initiative work such as tank overfill improvement studies, winterization improvements to plant designs, alarm management investigations

  • Support unit engineers with root cause analysis (RCA) activities – collection of incident data and participation in studies to investigate failure incidents.

Formal Education Minimum B. Eng or BSc Eng degree obtained within the past 3 years.

Min Experience Experience: 0+ relevant year

Behavioural (BC) |Technical (TC) |Leadership (LC) BC_Nimble Learning TC_Process Risk Analysis TC_Process Safety / Environmental TC_Operating Process Knowledge TC_Process Management and Development BC_Manages Complexity BC_Self-development BC_Demonstrates Self-awareness TC_Compliance Management BC_Ensures Accountability



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