Automation Engineering Graduate

Job description

AFC - Danone Southern Africa (Pty),a subsidiary of Danone, is looking for Automation Engineering Graduate 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.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·  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 optimization 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

Minimun Requirements:

·  Qualified Instrument Technician
·  N6 Instrumentation
·  Software packages (preferable):

o Siemens Step 7
o Win CC
o Win CC Flex
o Wonderware Window Viewer and Window Maker
o GX Developer Mitsubishi
o Allan Bradley – Pro Logix 5000
o Siemens Starter
o Siemens Microwin
o Siemens Simotion scout

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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