PLC Technician

**Requirements**
- Perform corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance work according to Company and Industry standard
- Active participation in projects focused on improvements of machinery and processes
- Adhere to all health, safety and environment standards and ensure that work is carried out in a safe manner at all times
- Perform assigned programming tasks
- Generate the necessary documentation associated with this work and participate in the work of training maintenance personnel and sharing acquired knowledge, whenever required to do so
- Document anomalies, generate work reports and general status reports of the work assigned daily
- Request the material resources necessary for the correct performance of the planned maintenance
- Decides and acts independently in the absence of superiors with regards to the incidents and repairs of the company machines and installations
- Ad hoc duties as required

**Qualification/Skills/Experience Required**
- Minimum Electrical /Mechanical Engineering qualification, B-Tech preferred
- Minimum 5 years Siemens S7 experience, TIA portal, Profibus, WinCC. Allen Bradley will be advantageous.
- Minimum
- 5 years’ experience within a high production demand automotive manufacturing plant
- Excellent computer knowledge and skills. Fault finding and problem solving.
- Ideally someone from a system integration background.
- Willing to work rotating shifts, flexible hours, weekends and during shutdown, if/when required.
- Basic functions needed for a PLC
- Simatic Manager 7 - hardware configuration of the PLC and remote IO unit. Part numbers and pre-set addresses given.
- Counting system which is then linked to outputs. (Counters and binary systems)
- Simatic TIA Portal-hardware config for the PLC and add a HMI to the system, all part numbers given. Read the inputs and display it as a decimal value on the HMI.
- Read a value from an analog channel and scale it to display a value from 0 to 100 as the device is moved.
- You will need to have strong Simatic Manager 7 and Simatic TIA portal working experience
- Must be able to read electrical drawings and support Electrician’s machines.
- ABB robots, Pilz safety PLC’s, Camera systems, Siemens/SEW Drives and engraver experience is an added advantage.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- automotive production industry: 5 years (preferred)
- PLC: 5 years (preferred)