Instrumentation / Automation Technician
1 week ago
Qualifications + Experience
- N6 Diploma with Trade Test in Automation and Instrumentation OR Qualified Millwright with applicable experience
- T3/S4 Diploma will be an advantage
- 3 years as a Technician in the Electrical field, especially in Automation (Hydraulics and general maintenance / projects)
- Read and understand Electrical drawings
- Electrical and PLC fault finding
- Read and understand Hydraulic / Pneumatic drawings ESSENTIAL
- Able to work on 3 phase 380 V
Knowledge Required
- PLC Programming (Siemens S5, S7, Festo)
- Robotics (Kuka Robots, Motoman Robots, ABB Robots)
- AC/DC Drives and Servo Applications and drives experience
- SCADA (Win CC, WinccFlex) / HMI (Siemens, EBELT, BTxxx, Suetron) Programming
Duties
- Maintenance installation on hydraulic presses, industrial robots, CNC Machines, spot welding guns and well as project installation
- Electrical fault finding
- PLC (Siemens & Festo) and robot programming
- Preventative maintenance
- Improvement and upgrades of a variety of machines
- New projects
- Setting up checklists
- Equipment inventories
- Monthly Kaizens
- Maintaining software backups
- Motors, AC & DC Drivers
- Planning maintenance schedules
- Maintenance, fault finding, programming and control of S5 and S7 PLCs and SEW drives that control Robots, used for the assembling of parts for the motor industry
- Fault finding and correction of electrical problems as there are no Electricians in the Assembly Department on the lines
- Small projects and assist with projects that are run by the Projects Departments
- Upgrades of PLC programs and adding robots
- Servicing of the robots and assist production during the shift
- Pneumatic experience with clamps and cylinders on Jigs
- Hydraulic experience with power packs for Hydraulic Presses and Sealer Systems
- Faultfinding and configuring on Siemens S7 programming and Simatic 7 and MicroWin.
- HMI Simatic S7 and WinCC Flexible.
- Preventative maintenance and work orders.
- Faultfinding and problem solving on hydraulics and pneumatics systems.
- Relays, contactors and sensors.
- Build and repair electrical circuits.
- Attend to faults and breakdowns pertaining to 3 phase electricity motors.
- Conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions in case of machinery failure and quality deviations on ABB robots.
- Operate automatic equipment and maintain production equipment.
- Faultfinding and analyses on Siemens PLCs and networking.
- Repair and optimize ABB robots.
- Change Axis servo motors for ABB robots.
- Perform back-ups and restore programs on ABB robots.
- Perform back-ups and restore programs on Siemens PLCs.
- Faultfinding on robotic integrated systems.
- Faultfinding and adjust camera vision systems using Insight Cognex software.
- Work with Scada systems such as Stamp Master and Stamp Ware.
- Repair faulty equipment such as vacuum generators, vacuum suckers and Linax robots.
- Calibrate the 6 Axis of ABB robots when required.
- Analyze and faultfinding industrial communication errors within robots, Profibus DP and Ethernet cables.
- Faultfinding on Siemens drives.
- Perform preventative maintenance on robots.
- Conduct a fishbone charts to understand the breakdowns.
- Analyze and interpret electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic diagrams.
- Panasonic Towers robot training for CO2 welding.
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