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Kenton on Sea, South Africa Loretta Sanderson HR Full time

throughput for poultry production. This position reports to the Senior Production Manager. **REQUIREMENTS**: - A National Diploma in Electrical/Automation Engineering - 5 Years’, hands-on process control/automation engineering experience. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**: - Maintain PC/PLC equipment, peripherals, scale heads, etc. to ensure plant availability for controlled feed production; - Develop, install and refine existing hardware installations to improve reliability and functionality; - Maintain interfaces to ensure >98% availability for feed production; - Maintain process control and automation software on PC’s, PLC’s, peripherals, etc. to ensure plant availability; - Achieve batching accuracy on all products; - Setup and record Variable speed drive setting on all batching augers; - Setup and recording of Scale controller settings; - Develop, install and refine existing software and control loops to improve functionality; - Maintain back-ups of parameter settings applicable to VDS’s, PLC’s, HMI’s etc; - Draw up task clarifications of proposed projects involving changes to plant utilization and/or new equipment. - Keep hardware firmware updated to latest version and revision **CRITICAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS**: - Adroit Scada and MAPS (Mitsubishi Adroit Process Suite) - Allan Bradley PLC Programming and fault finding - Allan Bradley HMI Programming and fault finding - Mitsubishi PLC Programming and fault finding - Mitsubishi HMI Programming and fault finding - Delta HMI Programming and fault finding - Setting up and fine tuning PID loops - SQL Databases setup and design - Temperature controllers - Scales and loadcells - Ethernet IP - Communication and setup of devices (HMI’s, PLC’s and SCADA PC’s) **Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent **Education**: - Diploma (required) **Experience**: - process control, automation: 5 years (required) - plc programming and fault finding: 5 years (preferred)

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