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Job Purpose:

The Plant Automation Engineer is responsible for troubleshooting, maintaining, and improving automation systems within an assigned manufacturing plant. The role provides plant-wide support from processing and filling through packaging, conveying, and palletizing to maintain safe operation, equipment availability, and minimum production downtime.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:-

Automation Maintenance and Production:

·         Attend automation-related breakdowns and restore equipment operation safely and efficiently.

·         Troubleshoot PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, control panels, drives, servo systems, sensors, instruments, robots, vision systems, and industrial communication faults.

·         Support production equipment across processing, mixing, UHT, CIP, filling, packaging, inspection, conveying, wrapping, and palletizing.

·         Coordinate with production, mechanical, electrical, quality, IT/OT, OEMs, and contractors during complex breakdowns.

·         Support equipment start-up, shutdown, cleaning, product changeovers, trials, and new product introductions.

·         Record, escalate, and hand over unresolved issues with clear actions, ownership, and operational status.

·         Represents automation team in plant manufacturing daily meeting.

·         Responsible for reporting automation downtime, continuous improvement projects and changes to automation assets.

 Control Systems, SCADA, Instrumentation and Networks:

·         Monitor and troubleshoot PLC programs, sequences, interlocks, alarms, safety conditions, and machine communication.

·         Maintain and support Siemens WinCC and Wonderware/AVEVA InTouch SCADA and HMI systems, including servers, operator stations, tags, alarms, trends, and communication with PLCs.

·         Perform authorized minor modifications to PLC, HMI, SCADA, drive, and machine-control applications using the approved change process.

·         Troubleshoot sensors, transmitters, control valves, weighing systems, flowmeters, temperature and pressure instruments, and other field devices.

·         Verify instrument signals, scaling, calibration status, and communication with PLC and SCADA systems.

·         Troubleshoot industrial networks and protocols such as Profinet, Profibus, Ethernet/IP, Modbus TCP, OPC UA, AS-i, and IO-Link.

·         Use only approved software backups and versions provided through the automation software control process.

 Preventive Maintenance, Reliability and Improvement:

·         Execute preventive maintenance for automation systems, control panels, instrumentation, industrial networks within machine, drives andremote I/O, power supplies.

·         Review downtime, alarm history, and repeated faults to identify root causes and permanent corrective actions.

·         Propose improvements that increase reliability, maintainability, safety, cycle performance, and production availability.

·         Recommend critical spare parts and report obsolete or unsupported automation components.

·         Support implementation and validation of approved automation improvements and upgrades.

Projects, Documentation and Compliance:

·         Support installation, testing, commissioning, and start-up of new machines and automation systems.

·         Review and maintain electrical drawings, I/O lists, network diagrams, software records, equipment manuals, and automation asset information.

·         Record breakdown details, corrective actions, root causes, preventive maintenance work, and software changes in the approved maintenance system.

·         Follow electrical safety, lockout/tagout, permit-to-work, machine-safety, food-safety, hygiene, and Good Manufacturing Practice requirements.

·         Ensure troubleshooting and modifications do not bypass safety circuits or negatively affect product quality, recipes, traceability, or critical process parameters.

 Reporting and Communication:

·         Report functionally and operationally to the Manufacturing Automation Engineer, with technical coordination with the Automation Systems Specialist when specialist support or controlled system changes are required.

·         Provide clear daily updates on automation breakdowns, production impact, actions completed, unresolved issues, support required, and shift handover status.

·         Maintain accurate site records for automation downtime, recurring faults, preventive maintenance, technical actions, software changes, backups, asset changes, and continuous improvement activities.

 Job Requirements:

·         Educational level: MSC in Electrical Engineering, Diploma or comparable relevant experience

·         Specific diploma/education: Sophisticated knowledge of PLC

·         Minimal experience: 5 Years

·         Languages: English,