Africa Automation Engineer

An established agrochemical manufacturer is seeking an Automation Engineer to drive site manufacturing system and maintenance improvements whilst executing 1st level support for onsite manufacturing- and automation systems and maintenance, in collaboration with the EMEA team.

Minimum Requirements For The Role

• Must have a Bachelor- or Masters Degree in Process / Automation Engineering, Computer Science or comparable education
• An electrical certification with an added automation qualification (preferably Siemens and Schneider) will be required
• Minimum 5 years experience in electrical/mechanical maintenance, repairs and installations, including maintaining automation systems (preferably / Siemens and Schneider) is essential
• Must have advance knowledge doing fault finding on multidisciplinary systems, including pneumatic systems.
• Experience in Manufacturing- and Plant Automation systems including software skills in areas such as MES, SCADA, PLC, etc. will be required
• Must have experience in process optimization, maintenance and site support

The Successful Candidate Will Be Responsible For

• Ensuring asset integrity according legal and corporate regulation.
• Installing or maintaining criticality on assets according to company guidelines.
• Following up, coordinating and giving advice on the asset care strategy items like time, condition, or proactive based all driven by criticality.
• Organising, training and coaching RCA and FMEA on site.
• Driving focus improvement on asset care for the site.
• Keeping asset care info up to date in the CMMS and SharePoint systems.
• Presenting as member on global asset care and reliability communities where needed.
• Looking for use of new digital transformation on assets with positive ROI.
• Maintaining and supporting site manufacturing systems such as MES, SCADA, PLC, OEE, etc.
• Initiating, taking and coordinating actions to drive process- and manufacturing system and maintenance improvements.
• Analysing production data and make recommendations to site leadership to sustain and improve.
• Supporting plant operations by tracking performance metrics.
• Providing service and support to ensure the site is capable to meet daily-, weekly-, monthly-, and yearly business objectives.
• Providing 1st line support for the site manufacturing systems such as SCADA, PLC, OEE, etc. including the maintenance and resolution of production- and downtime issues.
• Taking ownership and implementing changes to optimise the configuration of the actual plant process systems like PLC systems, Scada (Automation).
• Working closely with the European Engineering- and Digital Manufacturing to implement automation systems and best practices.

Please note that subsequent to the screening and shortlisting process, all further communication will be entered into, only with the shortlisted candidates