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AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the Food Products sector, and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our single-minded purpose is our brands growth and development. Our brands span a range of categories i...
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Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
Administrative Assistance:
- Ensure the smooth running of the overall marketing department through administrative assistance e.g. raising of POs, coordinating meetings both internally and externally etc.
- Reports and Presentations:
- Assist in preparing presentations, updating activity plans, updating strategy documents
Retailer / Sales Assistance:
- Provide support to the department by coordinating retailer and rep samples and documents
Brand Support:
- Support Brand Managers with internal artwork approval
- Assist with project requirements including raising projects, sending change sheets and supporting the overall development process to deliver a promotional programme or new product
- Responsible for coordinating and updating brand history records, brand information on websites, brand files, product imagery, details on competitors pricing and promotions
Public Relations Support (Press kits, social media, advertorials, competitions):
- Assist in compiling competitions and giveaways (monitor competition giveaways and distribution)
- Assist in executing media drops for relevant product launches that meet marketing objectives
- Ensure timeous delivery of product deliveries and deadlines
- Responsible for managing beauty brief requests and managing request with the relevant Brand Manager
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 3 years’ experience within an Administration function
Qualifications:
- Matric / NQF 4
- Relevant certification
Additional Requirements:
- Microsoft Office
- SAP
- Knowledge of marketing processes
- Numeric ability
Competencies:
- Staying Composed
- Considering Others
- Meeting Deadlines
- Attention to Detail
- Planning and Organising
- Maintaining Productivity
- Taking Initiative
- Persisting
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Main Purpose:
To ensure the highest standards of customer service is delivered, responsible for assisting customers and meeting set targets.
Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
- Cash control
- Perform cash desk function
- Cash control and banking processes are followed daily
- 0 cash variances maintained
- Manual transactions accurately recorded
- Stock Control
- Stock management processes are followed daily
- Customer orders are followed up
- Weekly stock counts are conducted accurately
- Store room department in good condition
- Shoe pairing exercise is completed weekly
- Customer Service
- Provide excellent customer service
- Internal & external customer relationship building
- Maintain good customer relationships
- Product knowledge
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 1 years’ retail experience
Qualifications:
Additional Requirements:
- Retail administration disciplines
- Stock & cash management
- Product knowledge
- Sales knowledge and selling skills
- Knowledge and understanding of policies and procedures pertaining to the cash desk, stockroom, admin and all other relevant policies
- Numerical ability
Competencies:
- Minimising Risk
- Meeting Deadlines
- Planning & Organising
- Thinking Analytically
- Building Relationships
- Attention to Detail
- Understanding Others
- Influencing Others
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Main Purpose:
To ensure the highest standards of customer service is delivered, responsible for assisting customers and meeting set targets.
Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
- Cash control
- Perform cash desk function
- Cash control and banking processes are followed daily
- 0 cash variances maintained
- Manual transactions accurately recorded
- Stock Control
- Stock management processes are followed daily
- Customer orders are followed up
- Weekly stock counts are conducted accurately
- Store room department in good condition
- Shoe pairing exercise is completed weekly
- Customer Service
- Provide excellent customer service
- Internal & external customer relationship building
- Maintain good customer relationships
- Product knowledge
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 1 years’ retail experience
Qualifications:
Additional Requirements:
- Retail administration disciplines
- Stock & cash management
- Product knowledge
- Sales knowledge and selling skills
- Knowledge and understanding of policies and procedures pertaining to the cash desk, stockroom, admin and all other relevant policies
- Numerical ability
Competencies:
- Minimising Risk
- Meeting Deadlines
- Planning & Organising
- Thinking Analytically
- Building Relationships
- Attention to Detail
- Understanding Others
- Influencing Others
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Main Purpose:
To ensure the highest standards of customer service is delivered, responsible for assisting customers and meeting set targets.
Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
- Cash control
- Perform cash desk function
- Cash control and banking processes are followed daily
- 0 cash variances maintained
- Manual transactions accurately recorded
- Stock Control
- Stock management processes are followed daily
- Customer orders are followed up
- Weekly stock counts are conducted accurately
- Store room department in good condition
- Shoe pairing exercise is completed weekly
- Customer Service
- Provide excellent customer service
- Internal & external customer relationship building
- Maintain good customer relationships
- Product knowledge
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 1 years’ retail experience
Qualifications:
Additional Requirements:
- Retail administration disciplines
- Stock & cash management
- Product knowledge
- Sales knowledge and selling skills
- Knowledge and understanding of policies and procedures pertaining to the cash desk, stockroom, admin and all other relevant policies
- Numerical ability
Competencies:
- Minimising Risk
- Meeting Deadlines
- Planning & Organising
- Thinking Analytically
- Building Relationships
- Attention to Detail
- Understanding Others
- Influencing Others
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Main Purpose:
To ensure the highest standards of customer service is delivered, responsible for assisting customers and meeting set targets.
Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
- Cash control
- Perform cash desk function
- Cash control and banking processes are followed daily
- 0 cash variances maintained
- Manual transactions accurately recorded
- Stock Control
- Stock management processes are followed daily
- Customer orders are followed up
- Weekly stock counts are conducted accurately
- Store room department in good condition
- Shoe pairing exercise is completed weekly
- Customer Service
- Provide excellent customer service
- Internal & external customer relationship building
- Maintain good customer relationships
- Product knowledge
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 1 years’ retail experience
Qualifications:
Additional Requirements:
- Retail administration disciplines
- Stock & cash management
- Product knowledge
- Sales knowledge and selling skills
- Knowledge and understanding of policies and procedures pertaining to the cash desk, stockroom, admin and all other relevant policies
- Numerical ability
Competencies:
- Minimising Risk
- Meeting Deadlines
- Planning & Organising
- Thinking Analytically
- Building Relationships
- Attention to Detail
- Understanding Others
- Influencing Others
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Key Performance Areas:
- Reconciliation of vendor accounts
- Query Resolution
- Reporting review
- Data Capturing
- General Housekeeping
- Audit and year end preparations
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- A minimum of 3 years in Accounts Payable role / Creditors Clerk, responsible for the entire creditors process (invoice capturing to reconciliations)
- Experience working within a Manufacturing Environment is a must
- Experience working in a high volumes environment - capturing no less than 700 invoices per month is a must
- Experience dealing with multiple departments and multiple stakeholders within your organisations is a must
- SAP experience
Qualifications:
- Matric/Grade 12
- Diploma or Bcom in Finance
Additional Requirements:
- SAP Experience (SAP P2P and FI)
- Processing Invoices Manually
- Dealing with Suppliers
- Reconciliation
Competencies:
- Working with people
- Analysing
- Planning & organising
- Delivering results & meeting customer expectations
- Following instructions & procedures
- Coping with pressures & setbacks
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Key performance areas:
- Responsibilities include the ability to identify research and resolve a broad range of problems associated with users as well as the broader IT Systems infrastructure.
- Provide operational support to business users including after-hours support by assisting in problem resolution
- Monitors the Systems and Infrastructure environments through the use of monitoring tools and pre-defined monitoring processes and reacts quickly to resolve complex problems
- Performs SAP transports in accordance with pre-defined processes
- Reviews user issues logged via email and ensures that these are appropriately logged and assigned to the correct resolver group
- Responds to user requests for information and assists in problem resolution outside of normal business hours
- Re-assigns calls that cannot be resolved immediately to the relevant resolving team or 3rd party as defined in the operational procedures
- Adheres to issues escalation procedures
- Ensures effective communication of the downtime schedule to key business and IT stakeholders
- Logs, documents and maintains history records of logged calls on the IT Knowledge Base
- Troubleshooting, diagnosis and resolution of problems related to the group’s infrastructure components such as server hardware, storage systems.
- Provide front-line support with a focus on incident resolution. They are to provide high quality technical and procedural assistance.
- Systems support across multiple platforms including (but not limited to): VMWare, MS Exchange, Windows Servers, Printing, CCTV, Faxing, SCCM and Backups.
- Responding to telephone calls, calls directly assigned via the incident management system, emails and in-person requests for technical support.
- Conduct first-line telephone support on all incoming calls to the Service Desk
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- At least 2 years relevant experience in a Service Desk or IT Support environment
- 1 Year 1st Line IT Service Desk Support experience is a minimum requirement
- Proven experience in monitoring, supporting and performing initial troubleshooting with a view to resolve incidents in:
- Enterprise desktop operating systems (Win7,8,10) and Office Productivity Applications (MS Office suite)
- Large scale Microsoft Windows Server environments
- Microsoft systems e.g. MS Exchange, MS SharePoint Data centre computer systems, storage systems, virtualisation, software management systems (SCCM) and backup systems
Qualifications:
- Matric/Grade 12
- Diploma in Information Technology
- Advanced Diploma or Equivalent in Information Technology would be advantageous
Minimum Certificate(S):
- MCSA (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate)
- Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 (Storage and Disk, Data dedupe, HA, DR, Clustering)
- Networking with Windows Server 2016 (DNS, DHCP, IPAM, VPN, DFS, SDN)
- Identity with Windows Server 2016 (AD DS, AD CS, AD FS)
Advantageous Certificate(s):
- Valid CCNA Certification
- A+/N+
- Enterprise Server Hardware (e.g. HP, Dell)
- ITIL Service Management Foundation advantageous
Other Requirements:
- Prepared to work outside of normal working hours including overtime, weekends and/or public holidays
- The position requires rotational shift work
- A keen ability to work collaboratively within a team and across multiple pillars in ITSS
- Good working knowledge and experience in the use of enterprise monitoring systems (Solarwinds, SCOM)
- Good understanding of networking principles – TCP, UDP, etc.
Competencies:
- Flexible and open to change
- Build and use key relationships
- Problem-solving ability
- Planning and organizing
- Initiate and Achieve Results
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Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
- Liaise with suppliers concerning the design and manufacture of equipment
- Installation of Capital Projects.
- Ensure project installations meet the proposed requirements and standards for National Brands Limited.
- Management of Contractors and internal resources.
- Project progress reporting.
- Co-ordinate the activities associated with the management of SHE in the department.
- Assist in the preparation of capital vote applications.
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years experience, preferably in FMCG
Qualifications:
- Millwright or Fitting Trade with a minimum of N4
Additional Requirements:
- Willingness to work overtime
Competencies:
- Strong technical attributes in Mechanical and Electrical Fitting.
- Equipment installation experience.
- MS Office, MS Projects, AutoCAD and Shopware will be an advantage.
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Why our In-Service Trainees choose AVI
- Real exposure and practical learning in actual working environments
- Encouraged to be involved and think of alternative solutions to genuine business issues
- Constant mentorship, guidance and support
- Offered meaningful work and opportunities to contribute
- Held accountable for quality and delivery
What you will need to be considered:
Qualifications:
- A 2-year Food Technology Diploma and only requiring the 1-year in-service training to complete studies
Additional Requirements:
- Computer literacy
- Able to work irregular hours
- Leadership skills
- Good verbal communication skills
- Ability to operate independently
- Initiative
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Key Performance Areas:
- Provide accurate sales and returns information
- Daily reports
- Monthly reviews
- Ad hoc requests
- Manage customer orders
- Allocation
- Pricing
- Placement
- Booking
- Delivery
- Manage regional promotional grid
- Management of cycle deal PAC forms
- Update promotional grid
- Save and check all retail broadsheets versus the grid
- Conduct a price survey twice a month
- Utilise Silo to update promo grid with accurate RSPs and promo dates
- Provide effective administrative support to the RSMs and SOMs
- Make customer appointments
- Manage regional claims
- Manage regional trackers
- Manage regional contact matrix
- Manage regional pricing alerts
- Manage Isando DC expired stock
- Management of regional expenses
- Prepare and process RSM & SOM monthly expenses
- Plan and book all travel arrangements for RSM & SOM
- Monitor Inland budgets versus actual spend monthly
- Management of regional office
- Prepare for all meetings
- Manage POS
- Manage free stock
- Manage office filing system
- Manage NBL asset register
- Compile, analyze and investigate sales out data
- Nielsen
- Ask’d
- Spar Insights
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 5+ years solid Sales Administration experience in a similar role Solid FMCG experience is essential
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 (with Mathematics and Accounting in Matric)
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Accounting or Finance would be advantageous
Additional Requirements:
- Market information tools (Nielsens/IRI, SPAR Insights, ASK’d reports)
- Advanced MS Excel
- SAP experience
- SQL experience
- Strong numerical ability
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Key Performance Areas:
Safety
- Site compliance to OHS Act and other relevant regulations and legislation, including:
- Legal appointments, SHE committee, permits
- Conduct risk assessments and manage programs to reduce risks to acceptable levels
- Behaviour based safety program implemented
- Visible safety leadership, including; red tagging, housekeeping, signage update programs
- Report on and investigate all incidents and near misses
- Achieve site ISO 45000 accreditation by end F20
- Contractor management including induction, 37(2) Mandatory agreements and COID registration control
- Visitor induction upgrade
- Dust explosion and/or MHI assessments
- Allocate responsibilities to areas within plant for housekeeping and red tagging exercises
- Conduct internal compliance and safety audits, report on findings and manage issue log through to completion.
- Monitor and manage the cost of PPE
- Conduct or organise relevant health and safety training for staff as required, including; first aid and fire fighting
- Advise the 16(2) and GMR 2(1) responsible people on all SHE issues
- Liaise with DOL and municipalities where required
- Keep up to date with changes in current legislation and implement such changes where relevant.
- Participate in plant SHE cross-audits within NBL
Health
- Monitor and manage the Occupation Health Clinic and report on monthly statistics
- Manage any occupational health risks and reports as required
- Identify trends and risks relating to health
- Manage garment contractor service level
- Environmental and facilities audits (Lighting, Noise, Air, ablutions etc.
Environmental and waste management
- Achieve or maintain site ISO14000 accreditation
- List and manage aspect and impacts relating to environmental requirements
- Manage waste management contractor and report on performance
- Manage effluent treatment plant contractor and report on performance
- Implement practises to reduce total waste to landfill and improve site sustainability practises
- Manage and report on water and energy usage and implement programs to improve sustainability practises
- Manage environmental systems and legislation
Fire and Security risk
- Fire and Emergency response protocol and emergency preparedness of site
- Conduct fire drills
- Fire equipment audits, inspections and tests
- Co-ordinate with group risk advisory (AVI and Marsh) and facilitate audits
- Achieve site ASIB compliance
- Improve practises and system to improve Marsh risk audit scoring
- Responsibility for the access control system maintenance
- Drive loss prevention and risk reduction programs at the site.
- Monitor and manage the security contractor
- Manage CCTV system and interactions with ITSS to ensure continued operation of the surveillance system
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in similar role
Qualifications:
- Tertiary qualification Diploma or Degree in OHS from a recognised university
- ISO 18000 (45000) and ISO 14000 auditor status
Additional Requirements:
- Formal training and auditor status in an integrated Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) programme (e.g. ISO 45000)
- Specialist knowledge of and practical application of the Occupational Health & Safety Act and the Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act
- Strong organisational or administrative skills with attention to detail and a methodical approach.
- IT literate and a comprehensive understanding of Windows based programmes to include Word, Excel and Outlook is essential
- Strong teamwork skills
- Previous experience in a similar role/environment is essential
- Professional approach in dealing with issues and employees
- Previous food manufacturing experience preferred
Competencies:
- Interpersonal skills
- Assertiveness
- Attention to detail
- Stress management and coping skills
- Analytical skills
- Flexibility / Adaptability
- Internal locus of control
- Integrity
- Emotional intelligence
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Key Performance Areas:
- Leverage your process expertise and ability to manage multiple complex projects within a manufacturing environment in order to effect capacity enabling changes across the Snackworks factories
- Apply your productivity-focused project management skills to implement solutions across the sites
- Lead the site project engineering teams
- Manage capital projects from the justification stage across the project cycle to accelerate equipment selection, commissioning, performance ramp up and maintenance and training integration by following sound project management principles
- Establish capital expenditure to improve health & safety, productivity, capacity and efficiency for each factory within the division
- Project planning and tracking to ensure deadlines and objectives are met
- Execute project follow up and ensure successful implementation
- Coordinate implementation of projects in terms of change management and training needs
- Lean manufacturing approach to the project life cycle
- Report to management with progress of current and planned projects
- Establish a 5-year plan for each factory
- Ensure that approved capital expenditure delivers the commitments at each factory within the division
- Implementation of appropriate manufacturing systems to enable process and operational improvements at each factory within the division
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- 5+ Years’ experience within a similar role
- Relevant FMCG experience in the Food environment
Qualifications:
- Completed Higher National Diploma/ BTech or BSC Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
- A professional engineering qualification combined with keen business acumen and FMCG Food manufacturing experience is indispensable in this environment
Additional Requirements:
- MS Projects
- MS Office
- AutoCAD knowledge
- In-depth knowledge of FMCG plant equipment
- At least 5 years’ experience in project management
- Presentation skills
- Analytical/investigative nature
- Excellent interpersonal skills
Competencies:
- Meeting deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Planning and organising
- Thinking analytically
- Interpreting data
- Maintaining productivity
- Documenting facts
- Upholding Standards
- Minimising Risk
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Key Performance Areas:
- Develop technical competency requirements, conduct technical skill assessments and implement interventions to address gaps
- Review and improve existing technical training processes and procedures, including assessments
- Develop a technical body of knowledge for selected equipment
- Conduct internal operational training moderation
Prepare technical development programs for selected roles
- Identifies, recommends and manages internal and external training and development needs
- Collaborate with OEMs to identify, enhance and embed technical skills
- Drive and facilitate the assessment of technical resources against required competencies
- Develop specific and targeted technical training manuals and other training documents for equipment-specific competencies
Oversee and manage the Apprenticeship program to ensure successful completion and integration into the business
- Identify requirements and recruit
- Monitor apprentice performance
- Periodically review and undertake technical competency assessments
- Identify and assess accredited training facilities
Identify, evaluate, select and manage external service providers involved in technical training and technical skills development
- Ensure relevant documentation requirements are complied with
- Provide feedback to service providers regarding progress, quality of technical interventions, and training material
- Act as the liaison between internal and external stakeholders
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- 3-5 years prior experience in a similar role
- Experience in the implementation of training programs and liaison with OEMs
- Experience working with the SETAs
- Good practical experience of packing equipment (Mechanical and Electrical)
Qualifications:
- Completed Trade Test as a Millwright, or Electrical, or Mechanical with an accredited institution
Additional Requirements:
- Writing of SOPs, Work Instructions and Training Manuals
- Develop and apply technical and manufacturing systems expertise
- SETA and NQF principles and processes
- Communicate clearly, written and verbal
- Work collaboratively with others
- Empower and develop others
- Initiate and achieve results
- Good computer skills
- Competencies:
- Manage and share information
- Plan or strategize ahead
- Optimise business performance
- Analyse and solve problems
- Deliver customer service
- Build and use key relationships, including external networks and institutions
- Work with others
- Uphold standards and ethics
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Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:
- Planning maintenance activities and co-ordination of maintenance activities including annual shutdown and daily adhoc work.
- Analyse machinery and component life cycles by identifying failure trends.
- Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans on a daily basis.
- Updating job cards and maintenance schedules based on OEM manuals and historical performance.
- Develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work.
- Manage preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, which will include condition monitoring and other practices.
- Monitor job completion rates and report trends to the Engineering management team.
- CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) – implementation, optimization and management of the Shopware Asset Care system.
- Planning and optimising the most appropriate maintenance tasks for relevant equipment
- Analysis and interpretation of maintenance history and feedback report preparation.
- Ensure ongoing communication with Engineering Team Leaders, Production Managers and Production Planner.
- Work closely with engineering stores personnel to control spares and stock levels.
- Projects – work closely with the project team to ensure efficient delivery of tasks involving engineering input
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- At least 8 years' experience in maintenance planning gained within the FMCG/ Food manufacturing environment.
- Experience in a high-speed packaging environment advantageous.
- Shopware experience is essential
Qualifications:
- Completed a trade test as a Fitter, Millwright and Electrical with a recognized institution ideal.
- National Diploma/B.Tech or equivalent qualification in Mechanical- or Electrical Engineering (N6/T3/S4).
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge of Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) e.g. SAP, Shopware and/or Pragma experience.
- Experience with CMMS preferably Pragma Shopware, will be a distinct advantage.
- Knowledge of TPM and RCM concepts and principles.
- Knowledge of MS Projects and MS Excel.
Competencies:
- Meeting Deadlines
- Attention to Detail
- Working Together
- Thinking Analytically
- Interpreting Data
- Planning & Organising
- Articulating Information
- Documenting Facts
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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
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