Automation and Control Technician - Kempton Park, South Africa - AVI Limited
Description
AVI Ltd. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.
NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world-class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.
An exciting opportunity exists for an
Automation Technician at
NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Isando, Coffee and Creamer. The purpose of the role is to provide technical support for all aspects of automation fault finding and improvement.
Line Manager:
Engineering Manager
Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
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Assist with day-to-day software-related breakdowns with recommendations to reduce
- Attend to softwarerelated breakdowns in the factory
- Recommend actions to reduce and/or eliminate automation breakdowns
- Compile reports on attended breakdowns to isolate and eliminate common and frequent issues
- Provide technical support and training to the site on an adhoc basis
Investigation of plant breakdown incidents - trends, alarms, reports, etc.
- Investigate previous plant breakdowns using available tools such as trends, alarms, etc.
- Recommend and implement modern and robust solutions to assist with the investigation of breakdowns.
- Assist Finance and Logistics departments regarding stock losses using SCADA reports and Historian in relation to SAP
Minor plant modifications - upgrade of HMIs, PLCs, drives, etc.
- Assist engineering foremen with minor plant changes that need code modifications
- Upgrade and migrate obsolete automation equipment after failure.
- Proactively migrate redundant software programs to suit newer equipment
Ensure spares and backups are current.
- Perform software backups as envisioned on the software backup procedure document
- Ensure all plant software backups are up to date
- Perform periodic spares audits and identify critical spares
Assist instrumentation technicians with PLC, HMI, Drive, and SCADA fault finding
- Assist engineering personnel with fault finding using PLC/SCADA
- Mentor Instrument Technicians and graduates with control system skills
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years experience in a similar role within an FMCG environment
Qualifications:
- National Diploma in Electrical, Electronic, and Instrumentation Engineering
Additional Requirements:
- PLC Programming (Siemens S7, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley)
- SCADA (Wonderware InTouch)
- HMI (Siemens, Allen Bradley, Delta, Omron) Programming
- AC/DC
- Drives and Servo experience
- Industrial networking protocols (Profinet, Profibus, and Modbus)
- MS Office & SQL Server
Competencies:
- Continuously Improving
- Thinking Analytically
- Interpreting Data
- Documenting Facts
- Staying Composed
- Planning and Organising
- Building Relationships
- Articulating Relationships
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