Automation Technician - Kempton Park at AVI Limited

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 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

Competencies:

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