Control and Automation Technician - Lakeside at The Coca-Cola Company

Job Description
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has an exciting opportunity in our Engineering department. We are looking for talented individuals with relevant skills and experience for a Control and Automation Technician which is based in Lakeside. Key Purpose: The Control and Automation Technician is required to deliver specialized high-level technical skills to support CCBSA manufacturing operations in Lakeside . This will include debugging and troubleshooting automation control systems and software of PLC's, HMI's, Servo Drive Systems, Industrial control Networks, VSD’s and instrumentation. The Control and Automation Technician must be competent in PLC and HMI software development, to make medium-scale modifications and improvements to the control system. The Control and Automation Technician will assist in creating drawings, including schematics, P&ID, control panel designs. The C&A Technician will develop calibration procedures for process instruments as well as coach understanding of process controls and the troubleshooting thereof. The C&A Technician needs to have a strong electrical background including Servo and Variable speed drives. The C&A technician will report to the Control and Automation Controller in the Packaging-engineering department and will assist in problem solving and C&A asset management to enhance operational performance.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintain Plant Standards and Infrastructure
•  Assist with developing adequate procedures/standards for automation, and be the lead to ensure that the plant standards are maintained
•  Conduct Routine Backups of all automation systems (PLC, HMI, Scada Systems, Industrial PC’s and storage media, VSD and Servo systems and Machine Parameters)
•  Maintain and Update Diagrams and Documentation (P&IDs, Schematics, Industrial Network, and Technical Documentation)
•  Calibration – Ensure all plant instrumentation is calibrated, and calibration certificates archived
•  Disaster recovery – Test and check Backups on a routine basis and make sure all automation
• systems can be restored with minimal downtime

Reduce Control & Automation Downtime and Maintain Machine/Plant Reliability

•  Accurate and methodical faultfinding to determine root cause of breakdowns
•  Continuous Root Cause analysis of technical problems/breakdowns and implement improvement measures to prevent repeat failures
•  Continuous optimization of processes, machine operation/sequence in all areas (utilities, processing and production lines) to improve and maintain efficiencies, reduce electricity, water and waste
•  Coach, guide and assist Electrical Machine Specialists/artisans to close skill gap
•  Analyze downtime for trends and proactively eliminate major causes
•  Attend FFA’S , MDT and Pre- maintenance meetings

Business Continuity

•  Conduct Risk assessments on all automation equipment and mitigate risks
•  Identify critical spares required for all automation equipment and ensure that critical spares
• are available
•  Ensure the integrity and reliability of automation software and hardware by monitoring maintenance, adherence to standards and effective problem solving.
•  Participate in the C&A community by enabling knowledge sharing and skill transfer.
•  Standby duties is required for afterhours support to the packaging lines, process and Utilities departments.
•  Continuously keeps abreast with technologySkills, Experience & EducationQualifications
•  National Diploma in Electrical Engineering (Light Current or Heavy current)
•  Electrical trade tested will be advantageous.

Knowledge and Experience

•  At least 3 years’ experience as Control and Automation technician
•  Sound knowledge and experience on Instrumentation, calibrations, configurations, maintenance, faultfinding, installation standards, documentation standards and instrumentation protocols.
•  Basic knowledge and experience with Wonderware Archestra and Intouch based SCADA systems
•  In-depth knowledge and experience of Siemens PLC hardware and software (Hardware Configuration and Programming) including STEP 7 and TIA Portal.
•  In-depth knowledge and experience on Siemens HMI hardware and software including WinCC and TIA Portal.
•  Sound knowledge and experience on the following industrial networks: Ethernet, Profinet, Profibus and ASI systems
•  Sound bottling and High-speed packaging equipment knowledge and experience will be advantageous
•  Sound experience in Variable speed drives ,configuration and diagnostics
•  Experience in diagnosing servo systems failures
•  Sound experience in restoring a failed PLC/Hardware/HMI or Industrial PC
•  Experience in problem solving methodology