Electrical and Automation Engineer at Giant Beverages

Job Description

• Develop maintenance procedures and ensure implementation
• Carry out inspection of the facilities to identify and resolve issues
• Check all machines and systems to ensure functionality
• Plan and oversee all repair and installation activities
• Ensure machine parameters are well set for quality production.
• Monitor equipment inventory and place order when necessary
• Monitor and control the maintenance budget
• Keep maintenance logs and report on daily activities
• Ensure health and safety policies are adhered to
• Any other duties as assigned by the plant operations manager.
• Responsible for planning activities aimed at supporting and helping the maintenance of the automated systems and connected instruments
• Take part in building up of a system for standardization of the equipment and to control its fulfillment
• Participate in analyzing of data on failures that arise and to propose measures for preventing them occurring in the future
• Designate and maintain the program back up of the automation systems in the assigned factory
• Take part in accepting and commissioning of new automated systems
• Designate and conduct activities for preventing breakdowns in the automated systems
• Prepare work instructions concerning the exploitation of the automated systems and the working instructions for the staff in general
• Translate process ideas and requirements into an automation concept with special attention to the analyses of the requested project and the definition and set-up of a programming structure
• Define and support standardization of process software and hardware
• Participate in or lead safety analyses

Qualifications/Experience

• HND/B.Sc in Electrical/Electronics Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years experience on Automation and Electrical in a Manufacturing Industry (bottling, cement, food industry).
• Automation experience should cover continuous process control as well as FMCG machines
• Ability to read, understand and to produce Electrical drawings
• Sound knowledge of S5 & S7 Siemens PLC
• PLC programming, data acquisition, Calibration and Human Machine Interface for all electronics equipments like EBI, Cobrix , FBI, Date Coding Machine
• Ability to write and maintain program backups
• Knowledge of Electrical Drawings & Power Distribution
• Ability to develop a maintenance program for all instrumentation and electronics equipment and components
• Exposure to SIDEL PET machines and Beverage Industry
• Ability to understand and analyse unstructured and not documented PLC software programmes, and the ability to structure and/or comment this software.
• Ability to prepare a software specification based on operational formulated requirements, and the ability to translate.