Process Automation Engineer (FMCG) Featured job

Posted time 20th November 2024 Location Sasolburg Job type Full-time
  • Experience: 5 years process automation experience in a manufacturing sector
  • Salary: R negotiable

Our client is a well known PET products manufacturer and is recruiting for a Process Automation Engineer to be based in Sasolburg, Vaal Triangle area.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Process Automation Strategies.
  • Leads the establishment of medium- and longer-term visions for Process Automation technology architecture and performance goals, in close relationship with overlapping and bordering technologies such as information and Communication, Electrical and Instrumentation.
  • Defines and leads the processes and procedures to establish year to year roadmaps with to longer-term visions as guide.
  • Align and adapt the visions and strategies to best meet the business objectives and requirements.
  • Defines and leads the processes and procedures to select and develop the most effective technologies, procedures and practices to be used for Process Automation.
  • Process Automation Covers:
    • Process Control (production process automation)
  • Process Information:
    • Management Execution System (production process information management)
    • Process Excellence tools (Digital-tools) – Application of Automation and ICT platforms to automate and enhance selected processes (not only production processes)

Process Excellence (PEX)

  • Serves as PEX Facilitator
  • Member of the PEX steering team.
  • Leads selected PEX projects.
  • Leads investigations for selected OTS (opportunity tracking system) opportunities.

Project Executions

  • Serves as Project Manager for selected capital and expense projects.
  • Serves as Process Control engineering expert for selected capital and expense projects.
  • Participates in the identification and selection of value-adding capital and expense projects.

 MINIMUM CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

  • National Diploma or Bachelors degree Qualification (Technical-Instrumentation, Instrumentation & Control, Electronics, Electrical).
  • A minimum of 8 years in Industrial Automation Systems, including at least 5 years in DCS, ESD and SIL systems. Preferably in a petrochemical industry e.g. polyolefins, refining.

 

Proficiency in:

    • Distributed Control Systems (DCS) such as Siemens and Yokogawa.
    • Manufacturing Execution System (MES) such as AspenONE.
    • Databases such as MS SQL Server deployment and application.
    • Visualization platforms such as Power BI.
    • Server hardware and operating systems.
    • Application development with industry popular languages such as VB-script, Java-script and on platforms such as Internet Information server and Azure.
    • System Integration, between different platforms with common technologies such as ODBC, OPC, Modbus and Profibus.

BENEFITS

A market-related Total Guaranteed Package including retirement fund and medical aid contributions and a travel allowance.

If you meet the requirements kindly submit your application to recruitment@boikagogroup.co.za or nokuphiwa@boikagogroup.co.za