Automation Engineer

SADAFCO; Dammam; Vor Ort; SAR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Sadafco is seeking a Plant Automation Engineer to troubleshoot, maintain, and enhance automation systems across processing, filling, packaging, conveying, and palletizing lines. You will support startup, changeovers, and trials while ensuring safe operation and minimum downtime.

The role involves coordinating with production, mechanical, electrical, quality, IT/OT and external contractors, documenting issues, and driving improvements in system reliability and performance.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of automation systems in manufacturing.
• Able to troubleshoot PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, drives, sensors, and robots.
• Coordinate with production, mechanical, electrical, quality and IT/OT teams during complex breakdowns.

Aufgaben

• Attend automation-related breakdowns and restore equipment operation safely.
• Maintain and troubleshoot PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and related control systems.
• Support start-up, changeovers, trials, and new product introductions.
• Record unresolved issues with actions and ownership.
• Report downtime and participate in continuous improvement projects.

Kenntnisse

Troubleshooting

Electrical safety

Root cause analysis

Team coordination

Tools

Siemens WinCC

Wonderware InTouch

SCADA systems

PLC programming

Jobbeschreibung

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, elevate, 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.