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 optimisation/modification and maintenance of process control systems.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Interacts daily with the production teams to resolve quality equipment related problems
• Assists in the implementation of plant and process improvement projects
• Standby duties – be available for call out when required
• Carries out specialised maintenance work in on quality equipment – calibration and set up work, complex component replacement, etc
• Ensures availability of specified critical spares and recommendations on maintenance regimes
• Verification/validation of quality equipment operation
• Uses SAP, other systems and reports as appropriate to analyse information in order to identify deviations from process capability relating to quality equipment
• SAP maintenance schedules management compliance
• Deveopment and maintain equipment performance report (ERI)
• Support in management of breakdown of equipment
• Instrument set-up – NPD support
• Supplier liaison (SPP)
• Supports development of training material and coaches operational teams to ensure optimal operation of quality equipment
• Provides specialist subject matter expertise and diagnostic skills in problem solving
• Provides expert information to assist in compilation of maintenance budgets (including spares stock holding)
• Continuously improves technical competence in order to ensure that latest thinking on operating and maintaining the quality equipment is applied
• 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

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Concern for attention to detail and accuracy
• Team player
• Good administration & problem solving skills
• Good technical knowledge
• Good knowledge of SAP and excel
• Good self-management practices

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Grade 12
• N6
• Minimum of 3 years instrumentation equipment maintenance and PLC experience advantageous

Additional Information:

• Band: IX

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing.