Packaging Process Control Technician

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The Key Purpose of this role is to optimize and modify process control systems, support the installation of process control and related electrical systems, and maintain, calibrate, and repair equipment. This role ensures the optimization of plant operations and associated devices to maximize plant availability and maintain high product quality.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Interacts daily with the production teams to resolve quality equipment related problems
• Assists in the implementation of plant and process improvement projects
• Standby duties – be available for call out when required
• Carries out specialised maintenance work in on process and quality equipment - calibration and set up work, complex component replacement, etc
• Ensures availability of specified critical spares and recommendations on maintenance regimes
• Verification/validation of process and quality equipment operation
• Uses CMMS, other systems and reports as appropriate to analyse information in order to identify deviations from process capability relating to process and quality equipment
• SAP maintenance schedules management compliance
• Develop and maintain equipment performance report (ERI)
• Support in management of breakdown of equipment
• Instrument set-up – NPD support
• Supports development of training material and coaches operational teams to ensure optimal operation of process and quality equipment
• Provides specialist subject matter expertise and diagnostic skills in problem solving
• Provides expert information to assist in compilation of maintenance budgets (including spares stock holding)
• Continuously improves technical competence in order to ensure that latest thinking on operating and maintaining the process and quality equipment is applied
• Apply the VPO principles & practices
• Apply 5S standards and practices in the workplace
• Operate and control the process according to SOP’s
• Participate in and coach autonomous operations
• Support quality at source
• Improve personal competence and flexibility

Minimum requirements:

• Minimum two years of experience in electrical and instrumentation maintenance and PLC fault-finding
• Expertise in Electrical, Instrumentation, Siemens, Rockwell, Fieldbus Networks (Asi, Profibus, Ethernet), and IO links.
• Experience in electrical, instrument calibration and troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Act
• Certified Electrical/Instrumentation Technician
• Minimum three years of experience in FMCG processing environments