Instrument Technician - Prospecton Plant Snacks at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for a Instrumentation Technician to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• The main purpose is primarily to ensure maximum plant uptime is achieved continuously.
• The individual must be a leader in maintenance and troubleshooting of control systems, instrumentation and electrical equipment.
• The individual must ensure that the factory meets its key KPIs which include but are not limited to production volume, safety and quality compliance, cost reduction, equipment reliability improvement and downtime reduction

Scope Measures

• Support Repairs and Maintenance Budget of R26MM of Materials per Annum
• Identification of obsolete material and critical spares to maintain Inventory Holding at R10MM per Annum
• Align with the must win battles of the site

• Performs electrical and instrumentation maintenance activities associated with process plant, packaging plant; palletizing plant, WWTP, utilities and facilities
• Leading all electrical and instrumentation repairs and maintenance activities in designated area of responsibility.
• Monitors daily downtime and institutes corrective action plans to prevent recurrences of breakdowns.
• Calibrates, repairs and maintains instrumentation, control and electrical associated equipment to ensure operation within set standards.
• Perform root cause analysis to address asset performance problems and/or reduce cost.
• Maintains PLCs, SCADA systems and networks (hardware and software) and perform changes/modifications as required.
• Continuously evaluates the equipment control philosophies and initiates improvement actions in order to achieve asset performance targets.
• Implements continuous improvement on all electrical and electronic equipment in the plant.
• Assist in commissioning of modifications/projects.
• Ensures proper documentation of changes/modifications and perform internal audits.
• Fault finding and repair of electrical and electronic systems to the component level.
• Ensure availability of spares for all electrical, electronic and control systems in the plant.
• Accurately and timeously reports equipment deviations to stakeholders to meet/improve equipment availability and reliability targets.
• Ensure proper back-up of all PLC programs and maintain records of all upgrades.
• Ensure that plant adheres to MESS standards and practice safe operations of process control systems.
• Audit of electrical, instrumentation and control system equipment.
• Calibration of all instrumentation and control equipment.
• Complete required testing and safety checks on all instrumentation equipment.
• Conducts all scheduled maintenance within required timeframes.
• Recording all work activities on the SAP computerized maintenance management system
• Working with suppliers and contractors as required to complete assigned work tasks.
• Communicates with production staff during shift to identify possible failures before they occur (Proactive maintenance mindset)
• Continuous shift cover, standby cover and overtime as per business requirement

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role

• Electrical trade tested with at least N6/S4 diploma qualification in Electrical : Instrumentation and control.
• Minimum 5 years maintenance experience in the Production/FMCG environment.
• Advanced computer literacy skills with knowledge of MS Office and SAP maintenance management system
• Must have extensive knowledge and experience in control systems - PLCs, SCADA, VSDs and Servo drives, HMI systems, standalone controllers, high speed printers and robotics.
• Extensive knowledge of instrumentation, electrical diagrams, P&IDs with a high quality of work.
• Strong PLC fault finding and troubleshooting skills and thorough knowledge of operator interfaces and HMIs.
• Working experience with industrial communication methodologies (Ethernet, CANBUS, RS-232, ASI, Device net)