Instrument Technician

Overview:
**We are PepsiCo**

PepsiCo is proud to be one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies. Every day, we are dedicated to bringing our mission to create more smiles with every sip and every bite to life. Our products are enjoyed more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Our portfolio — including Lay’s, Doritos, Gatorade, Pepsi and Quaker — consists of many iconic brands that generate more than US $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales, helping to deliver more than US $70 billion in net revenue in 2020.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive. Through PepsiCo Positive, we are charting a new course to drive positive action for the planet and people. PepsiCo Positive is an end-to-end strategic business transformation with sustainability at the centre of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change.

In South Africa (SA), you will find our products across the region at breakfast, lunch or dinner. At the gym or on the field. In the office or on the go. We refresh, restore and rejuvenate our consumers all day, every day with our key brands including Simba, Lay's, Liqui Fruit and the Bokomo range of cereals. PepsiCo SA employs more than 13,000 people across our three business divisions: Bakeries, Grains, Foods, Fruit, Snacks, Juice & Beverages.

**Responsibilities**:
**Instrument Technician to join our team at Prospecton Snacks Plant**:
The Instrument Technician plays a vital role in maximizing plant uptime by leading the maintenance and troubleshooting of instrumentation, control systems, and electrical equipment. This role is instrumental in meeting KPIs such as safety, quality, cost control, and equipment reliability.

**Accountabilities**:

- Support Repairs and Maintenance Budget
- Identification of obsolete material and critical spares to maintain Inventory Holding at R10MM per Annum
- Performs electrical and instrumentation maintenance activities associated with process plant, packaging plant; palletizing plant, WWTP, utilities and facilities
- Leading all electrical and instrumentation repairs and maintenance activities in designated area of responsibility.
- Monitors daily downtime and institutes corrective action plans to prevent recurrences of breakdowns.
- Calibrates, repairs and maintains instrumentation, control and electrical associated equipment to ensure operation within set standards.
- Perform root cause analysis to address asset performance problems and/or reduce cost.
- Maintains PLCs, SCADA systems and networks (hardware and software) and perform changes/modifications as required.
- Continuously evaluates the equipment control philosophies and initiates improvement actions in order to achieve asset performance targets.
- Implements continuous improvement on all electrical and electronic equipment in the plant.
- Assist in commissioning of modifications/projects.
- Ensures proper documentation of changes/modifications and perform internal audits.
- Fault finding and repair of electrical and electronic systems to the component level.
- Ensure availability of spares for all electrical, electronic and control systems in the plant.
- Accurately and timeously reports equipment deviations to stakeholders to meet/improve equipment availability and reliability targets.
- Ensure proper back-up of all PLC programs and maintain records of all upgrades.
- Ensure that plant adheres to MESS standards and practice safe operations of process control systems.
- Audit of electrical, instrumentation and control system equipment.
- Calibration of all instrumentation and control equipment.
- Complete required testing and safety checks on all instrumentation equipment.
- Conducts all scheduled maintenance within required timeframes.
- Recording all work activities on the SAP computerized maintenance management system
- Working with suppliers and contractors as required to complete assigned work tasks.
- Communicates with production staff during shift to identify possible failures before they occur (Proactive maintenance mindset).
- Continuous shift cover, standby cover and overtime as per business requirement.

Qualifications:
**What will qualify you for the role?**
- Trade tested Electrician with N6/S4 diploma in Electrical: Instrumentation and Control.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a FMCG production maintenance environment.
- Extensive knowledge of control systems (PLCs, SCADA, VSDs, HMI systems, standalone controllers, high speed printers and robotics).
- Strong PLC fault finding and troubleshooting skills and thorough knowledge of operator interfaces and HMIs.
- Working experience with industrial communication methodologies (Ethernet, CANBUS, RS-232, ASI, Devicenet)
- Proficiency in fault-finding, technical diagrams, industrial communication protocols.
- Advanced computer literacy skills