AVI Limited Automation Technician Jobs in South Africa
Job Description
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.
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 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 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 suite 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 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 a FMCG environment
Qualifications:
National Diploma in Electrical, Electronic, Instrumentation Engineering
Additional Requirements:
PLC Programming (Siemens S7, Mitsubishi)
SCADA (Wonderware InTouch)
HMI (Siemens, Delta, Omron) Programming
AC/DC – Drives and Servo experience
Industrial networking protocols (Profinet, Profibus, and Modbus)
MS Office & SQL Server
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; AVI Limited Automation Technician Jobs in South Africa
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