Summer Intern – Assistant Instrument & Electrical Engineer
Date Posted: July 10, 2025
Closing Date: August 10, 2025
Reports To: Engineering Team Lead
Location: New Plymouth
Duration: Full-time, Fixed Term
Position Summary
Assist and support the I&E team on valve datasheet improvements and motor protection relay replacement.
Position Responsibilities
Valve datasheet improvements:
- Accurately capture and update datasheets for control valves
- Identify Orbit brand valves, valves in distillation plants 3 and 4, Port and Omata facilities requiring update
- Identify which characteristics and attributes need to be updated and determine the correct updates
- Submit marked-up datasheets for as-building and approval
Motor protection relay replacement:
- Address current issues with the Allen Bradley 835 motor protection relays which are obsolete and failing regularly to prevent current process of addressing these reactively, as they fail
- Identify the different sub-models of Allen Bradley relays and the SEL brand equivalent
- Determine current Allen Bradley settings and propose the SEL equivalent
- Mark-up drawings and construction work packs and have them issued for construction
Position Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Completed 2nd or 3rd year of Electrical, Electronic or Mechatronic Engineering degree
- Fundamental knowledge of instrument and electrical equipment
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
- High level of computer literacy
- Intermediate level of Microsoft Office suite
- Particular attention to detail
- Ability to work with others
- Communicates well within own group and other departments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Well organised
- Results driven and goal orientated
- Self-motivated and comfortable to ask for help
- Available transport to Methanex site in Motunui required (public transport is not available)
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Applications close Sunday, 10 August 2025 NZST
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