Process Control Technician Zambian Breweries

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 maintain, repair and optimize plant and associated devices to plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations. This will include standby and day shift support
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving. This must be undertaken in support of the process artisan
• Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on machine operation, machine fault finding, correct responses to machine failure modes and alarm management
• Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional, central office and manufacturing systems plant optimization trials
• Dotted line support to the Automation PTE and Systems team
• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Where scheduled work can not be completed, feed back to the maintenance planner for direction. This may involve rescheduling the work or prioritizing outstanding work
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities
• Partake in C&A related maintenance schedules issued by the Maintenance Planner and as stipulated by the C&A GOP
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem solving techniques. If required, additional resources may be called in to assist
• Where problems have been uncovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner
• Ensure that C&A governance i.t.o disaster recovery, inspections and calibration are diligently carried out
• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
• Where required, specialist assistance may be called in. This may include internal resources such as Instrument
• Technicians, or external resources such as Contractors or Suppliers
• Where repairs indicate that major work is required, such as re-wiring a motor, this must be transferred to the engineering workshop for attention
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out. This includes all SAP inputs
• Where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window
• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Maintenance Planner or Engineer for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
• Take part, as functional expert, in FFA’s on request
• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate SAB policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties Key competencies and outputs
• In-depth knowledge and experience of Zenon backup, PLC siemens , S300,,S400, TIA Portal, Siemens PLC (S7), B&R hardware and software (Hardware Configuration and Programming)
• Experience on Krones, KHS and Heuft packaging equipment
• Sound knowledge and experience on the following industrial networks: Ethernet, Profinet, Profibus, ASI systems
• Knowledge of HMI, Industrial PC’s and SCADA systems
• Sound experience in Variable speed drives, configuration, diagnostics and backups
• Must be able to conduct Routine Backups, disaster recovery and restore all automation systems (PLC, HMI, Automation PC’s, VSD, Instrumentation.)
• Demonstrated and proven technical knowledge of process measurement instrumentation (level, temperature, pressure, pH, conductivity etc.) operating principles and calibration procedures
• Technical understanding of Control Systems architecture (network architecture, plc’s, workstations, network switches, industrial switches etc.)
• Contribute and maintain C&A good operating practices, support the C&A block and toolkit initiatives
• Line control optimization, field devices, set-ups, calibrations, small software changes via change management
• Risk analysis and reduction of overall C&A/Electrical downtime
• Enforcement and adherence to C&A standards
• Basic MES ability, problem solve data up to historian layer

Profile:

• National Diploma/N6 in Electrical Engineering/ Industrial Electronics/Instrumentation/ Electro techniques
• Trade tested
• Experience with Siemens PLC programming (Siemens certifications would be an advantage)
• Knowledge or experience of working in a production environment particularly in FMCG

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