Process Control Technician at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The key purpose of this role is to maintain, repair and optimize plant and associated devices to plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Provide specialist support to the
• shift based teams during operations. This will include standby and day shift support
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving. This must be undertaken in support of the process artisan
• Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift based teams on machine operation, machine fault finding, correct responses to machine failure modes and alarm management
• Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional, central office and manufacturing systems plant optimization trials
• Dotted line support to the Automation PTE and Systems team
• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Where scheduled work can not be completed, feed back to the maintenance planner for direction. This may involve rescheduling t he work or prioritizing outstanding work
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Partake in maintenance
• postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities
• Partake in C&A related maintenance schedules issued by the Maintenance Planner and as stipulated by the C&A GOP
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem solving techniques. If required, additional resources may be called in to assist

Minimum Requirements:

• National Diploma/N6 in Electrical Engineering/ Industrial Electronics/Instrumentation/
• Electro techniques
• Trade tested
• Experience with Siemens
• PLC programming ( Siemens certifications would be an
• advantage)
• Knowledge or experience of working in a production environment particularly in FMCG