Automation and Control Technician

2 weeks ago

Kempton Park, South Africa AVI Limited Full time

**AVI Ltd. **is known for its leading household brands across many categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

**NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED** operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world-class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.

An exciting opportunity exists for an **Automation Technician **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Isando, Coffee and Creamer.** The purpose of the role is to provide technical support for all aspects of automation fault finding and improvement. Coordinate planned maintenance of automation with engineering and external resources. Support the Automation Software Specialist in research & development into site-wide automation possibilities.

**Line Manager**: Engineering Manager

**Job Specification**:
**Key Performance Areas**:

- ** Assist with day-to-day software-related breakdowns with recommendations to reduce**
- Attend to software-related breakdowns in the factory
- Recommend actions to reduce and/or eliminate automation breakdowns
- Compile reports on attended breakdowns to isolate and eliminate common and frequent issues
- Provide technical support and training to the site on an ad-hoc basis
- ** Investigation of plant breakdown incidents - trends, alarms, reports, etc.**
- Investigate previous plant breakdowns using available tools such as trends, alarms, etc.
- Recommend and implement modern and robust solutions to assist with the investigation of breakdowns.
- Assist Finance and Logistics departments regarding stock losses using SCADA reports and Historian in relation to SAP
- ** Minor plant modifications - upgrade of HMIs, PLCs, drives, etc.**
- Assist engineering foremen with minor plant changes that need code modifications
- Upgrade and migrate obsolete automation equipment after failure.
- Proactively migrate redundant software programs to suit newer equipment
- ** Ensure spares and backups are current.**
- Perform software backups as envisioned on the software backup procedure document
- Ensure all plant software backups are up to date
- Perform periodic spares audits and identify critical spares
- ** Assist instrumentation technicians with PLC, HMI, Drive, and SCADA fault finding**
- Assist engineering personnel with fault finding using PLC/SCADA
- Mentor Instrument Technicians and graduates with control system skills

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- Minimum 5 years experience in a similar role within an FMCG environment

**Qualifications**:

- National Diploma in Electrical, Electronic, and Instrumentation Engineering

**Additional Requirements**:

- PLC Programming (Siemens S7, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley)
- SCADA (Wonderware InTouch)
- HMI (Siemens, Allen Bradley, Delta, Omron) Programming
- AC/DC - Drives and Servo experience
- Industrial networking protocols (Profinet, Profibus, and Modbus)
- MS Office & SQL Server

**Competencies**:

- Continuously Improving
- Thinking Analytically
- Interpreting Data
- Documenting Facts
- Staying Composed
- Planning and Organising
- Building Relationships
- Articulating Relationships

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