Quality Instrument Technician – Ibhayi Brewery needed at The South African Breweries
Job title : Quality Instrument Technician – Ibhayi Brewery
Job Location : Gauteng,
Deadline : May 04, 2025
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Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a safe, healthy and risk-free working environment for selected machine group
- Provide equipment that is safe to operate, compliant to environmental requirements and can delivery products that meet the required quality requirements
- Support and coaching of artisans and operators to achieve 100% Uptime, Zero Safety incidents, Zero Quality incidents, VIC usages like water, energy etc. in control
- Must understand VPO, how the pillars are interconnected and support the journey to world class operations
- Drive the implementation of Autonomous Operations through hands-on execution of each of the steps
- Equipment restored to an “as new” condition, in which initial deterioration is eliminated or controlled
- Provides a stable platform from which natural deterioration linked failures can be appropriately addressed with preventive and predictive maintenance activities
- Use data driven techniques to sustain and drive systemic improvements in equipment reliability for selected machine group by developing, improving and optimizing preventive and predictive maintenance plans Optimized maintenance costs, medium and long term plans and spare parts holding to achieve the agreed ZBB Budget
- Use data driven techniques to identify, develop, train and assess technical skills interventions to improve skills related performance gaps
- Improved equipment performance as a result of improved technical skills of relevant personnel
- Codification of technical knowledge through SOP’s and SWI’s
- Actively participate in problem solving (5 Why reviews, Abnormality Reports and PDCA/ITF’s) to provide deep technical knowledge to ensure correct root cause identification and that suitable preventive measures are identified and implemented
- Improved equipment performance through effective implementation of preventive measures
- Manage machine related projects for selected machine group to improve overall performance (reliability, quality and cost) as agreed with Pack Engineer or ZTE
- Project completion on time, within budget and according to agreed specification
- ZBB Maintenance budget compliance for selected machine group
- Collaboration with ZTE’s, Vendor’s and Reverse Engineering Specialist to deliver KPI’s
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Demonstrated and proven technical knowledge of process measurement instrumentation (level, temperature, pressure, pH, etc) operating principles and calibration procedures
- Technical understanding of Control Systems architecture (network architecture, servers, plc’s, workstations, network switches, etc)
- Basic knowledge of data historian systems (In SQL, etc)
- Demonstrated technical knowledge of Fieldbus technology (ASI, Profibus industrial Ethernet)
- Problem solving abilities on process control systems. (PLC’s, SCADA, Batch systems, Fieldbus, instrumentation, Ethernet, industrial switches etc)
- Experience in configuring and troubleshooting wireless control networks
- Ability to execute small software changes and projects
- Contribute and maintain C&A Good operating practices
- Knowledge of the Brewing, Utilities and Packaging Process K
Minimum Requirements:
- N6 and a Trade Test Qualification
- Minimum of 3 years instrumentation equipment maintenance and PLC experience as well as a good fault-finding capabilities
- Experience with Instrumentation, Concept, Siemens, RS Batch, InTouch, Fieldbus Networks (Asi, Profibus, Ethernet) and in SQL
- Knowledge of OHS act, NOSA
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