UTILITIES PROCESS CONTROL TECHNICIAN

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to perform optimization/modification and maintenance of process control systems.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintain a safe and healthy working environment

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation 

• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards

• Maintain, calibrate, repair equipment and optimize plant and associated devices

• Maintain plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems 

• Continuously improve (optimise) plant, process equipment and systems 

• Operate plant and process equipment 

• Calibrate instruments and sensors

• Perform basic changes to software in PLCs with necessary approvals

• Supports the scoping of projects and upgrades to plant and process

• Assists in the implementation of plant and process improvement projects

• SAP maintenance schedules management compliance

Work in Teams

• Communicate effectively in teams 

• Contribute to self and team development

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 

Apply problem solving processes

Utilise loss & waste and short interval control to identify problems 

Apply problem solving techniques to resolve situational problems 

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Concern for attention to detail & accuracy

• Team Player

• Good administration & problem-solving skills

• Good technical knowledge

• Good self-management practices

Minimum Requirements:

• Engineering Diploma or National Trade Test as an Instrumentation Technician or equivalent.

• 3+ years post experience in a FMCG.

• 2+ years of experience in maintenance of control systems in manufacturing industry (PLC, VFD etc.)

• Experience Flow and Grafana software Is an Added

• Sound knowledge of VPO and workplace change principles would be an added benefit

• knowledge of SAP and Excel

Additional Information:

• BAND: X

SAB is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for shortlisting.