Shift Electrician

6 days ago


Boksburg, South Africa Unilever Full time

Unilever is currently hiring for **Shift Electrician**

**Function**: Engineering

**Scope**: Local

**Location**: Boksburg

**Terms & Conditions**: Full Time

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people - we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

**JOB PURPOSE**

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world. If you are Responsible for electrical maintenance, diagnosis, and fault repairs on production equipment as well as to perform authorized modifications. then this role is just for you.

**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE**
- Attend to and maintain plant production equipment.
- Proactively ensure that preventative planned maintenance is performed in a cost-effective way to ensure minimum downtime and product losses.
- Maintenance of electrical equipment on production lines and high-speed packaging lines
- Maintenance of electrical systems and components
- Fault finding and repair of electrical equipment.
- Handle breakdowns effectively and timeously.
- Execute breakdown elimination using the SHOPWARE system as a tool.
- Do daily inspection schedules on equipment.
- Come up with Kaizens for to improve the equipment reliability.
- Support the PM team to reduce the MTTR and increase the MTBF.
- Active involvement on Machine Safety program
- Proper interpretation of electrical schematic diagrams and their altering when necessary
- Knowledge of pneumatic systems
- Knowledge of the profinet
- Variable Speed Drives

**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE**

**Experiences & Qualifications**
- N6 Certification in Electrical Engineering
- Completed Electrical Trade Test with 3 years post qualified experience
- Siemens PLC S300, S400 and S1500
- Allen Bradley PLC understanding
- PLC and relay control circuit faultfinding
- Electrical faultfinding on e.g. motors, conveyors, DBs etc
- FMCG environment preferably packaging equipment exposure
- Working knowledge of photo electric and proximity switches is essential.
- Basic understanding of the WCM and PM as a pillar
- Knowledge of bar-code applicators, scanners and printers
- Must be willing to work shifts, additionally some weekend work is required.

**Skills**
- Variable Speed Drives
- Basic computer literacy.
- They MUST have a sense of creativity and be innovative
- Ability to solve problems
- The ability to work independently as well as part of a team


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