Automation Engineer

Job description

Danone Southern Africa (Pty), a subsidiary of Danone, is looking for Automation Engineer South Africa (ZA)BoksburgDanone is a global food company holding top positions in healthy food through its four businesses: Fresh Dairy Products, Early Life Nutrition, Waters, and Medical Nutrition. Its mission, bringing health through food to as many people as possible, embodies commitment to human progress and business success. It gives meaning to the work of our 100,000 Danoners worldwide on an everyday basis. For passionate people looking for autonomy and exciting career opportunities, Danone truly has something special inside!

Job Purpose: Ensure optimum plant automation and instrumentation availability. Optimise automation systems and operator aids in order to reduce workload and increase efficiency. Attend to breakdown and preventative maintenance activities/tasks.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

·  Ensure adherence to quality standards, procedures, policies and practices
·  Ensure adherence to HACCP and CIP protocols
·  Monitor and ensure compliance with housekeeping standards
·  Ensure that all breakdowns and preventative maintenance and/or schedules maintenance activities are carried out to high standards and workmanship
·  Ensure that breakdowns are attended to timeously, thereby reducing production downtime.
·  Minimize stoppages and increase plant availability by implementing plant maintenance strategies.
·  Assist with the development of the annual maintenance budget.
·  Ensure that maintenance tasks are executed within budget (i.e., reduce spare parts consumption where possible and attempt to curtail costs associated with breakdowns)
·  Adhere to finance related policies, procedures and controls
·  Continuously identify cost effect ways of delivering world class service, identify cost saving initiatives and recommend improvements
·  Participate in and lead (where appropriate) maintenance specific problem solving initiatives
·  Ensure that all required maintenance documentation is completed property: use information to analyse machine performance (i.e., establish trends, etc.) and identify improvements
·  Ensure optimum plant automation and instrumentation availability.
·  Optimise automation systems and operator aids in order to reduce workload and increase efficiency
·  Upgrade old and redundant equipment
·  Perform preventative and reactive (i.e., breakdowns) maintenance on plant equipment
·  Perform fault finding, upgrades and process optimisation on all Siemens PLC systems (S5 and S7), SCADA (WinCC ) and Wonderware) and redundant SQL servers and Allan Bradley.
·  Change recipes as appropriate (i.e., new products, changes, etc.)
·  Remain up to date on the latest technological advancements and sourcing better equipment equivalents as appropriate
·  Manage contractors (quality of work and procedures)
·  Develop working procedures as required
·  Participate in projects, factory acceptance tests, and in assembling, commissioning and decommissioning lines
·  Liaise with production planning in order to properly schedule preventative/corrective maintenance
·  Monitor own performance to ensure that breakdown and scheduled maintenance is executed within agreed time frame and to the required standards

Food Safety and Quality:

·  Ensure adherence to Food Safety and Quality principles as included in the policies, procedures, product specifications and processes. This also includes general Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and hygiene practices.
·  Identify and report any potential Food Safety & Quality and GMP deviations and hazards.

INTERNAL CONTACTS:

·  Packaging
·  Maintenance
·  Utilities
·  Quality
·  Processing
·  Maintenance Stores
·  Research and Development
·  Projects

INTERNAL MEMBERSHIP:

·  Top meetings
·  Safety meetings
·  Maintenance team
·  Problem solving groups
·  Packaging and Processing Production team

Safety

·  Adhere to safety regulations, procedures and policies
·  Identify and report safety hazards
·  Participate in safety incident/accident investigations as required
·  Participate in safety dialogues as per guidelines
·  Participate in safety audits and action plan implementation as and when required
·  Comply with LOTO procedures and perform work in a safe manner at all times

LEVEL OF COMPETENCE REQUIRED:

·  Solid technical knowledge/competence
·  Maintenance experience
·  Passionate about maintenance methodologies/strategies and best practice

ACADEMIC AND TRADE QUALIFICATIONS:

·  Qualified Instrument technician
·  N6 Instrumentation

WORK EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

·  5 years of work experience in instrumentation within a FMCG environment / food industry
·  Exposed to technical root cause analysis methodologies

Software packages (preferable):

·  Siemens Step 7
·  Win CC
·  Win CC Flex
·  Wonderware Window Viewer and Window Maker
·  GX Developer Mitsubishi
·  Allan Bradley - Pro Logix 5000
·  Siemens Starter
·  Siemens Microwin
·  Siemens Simotion scout
·  Siemens Tia portal

Equipment (preferable):

·  All Siemens equipment especially S5 and S7 PLCs
·  Sound knowledge of drives
·  Good with industrial IT
·  SQL Servers
·  SCADA systems
·  Profibus PA/DP
·  Asi Communication
·  Ethernet Communications

For more information about Danone, its people and its business, please visit danone.com We have something special inside, do you?
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