Automation Strategy Lead — Digital Manufacturing & Security

The HEINEKEN Company; Johannesburg; Sur place; ZAR 1 400 000 - 2 300 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The HEINEKEN Company seeks an experienced Automation Manufacturing Leader to shape reliability, cybersecurity and digital manufacturing across multiple sites. You will set standards, governance and lifecycle practices for automation technologies in a complex, diverse production network.

You will partner with operations, IT and engineering to drive safer, more reliable, and scalable automation solutions while balancing risk, cost and long-term business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics, Process Control, Instrumentation, Automation or a related engineering discipline.
• Relevant professional registration, postgraduate qualification or recognized automation, industrial networking, cybersecurity or project certification would be an added advantage.
• Minimum 10 years relevant experience in industrial automation and control within a manufacturing or process environment, including experience with PLC, SCADA/HMI, industrial networks, drives, instrumentation and system integration.
• Demonstrated experience in automation projects, reliability improvement, technology lifecycle or obsolescence management and cross‑functional technical leadership.
• Experience operating across multiple manufacturing sites, developing standards or providing technical governance at business, regional or Centre of Excellence level would be an added advantage.

Responsabilités

• Provide cross‑site technical leadership to improve the reliability, maintainability and performance of automation and control systems.
• Establish and govern reliability standards, maintenance strategies and performance measures for PLC, SCADA, HMI, industrial networks, drives, instrumentation and associated control infrastructure.
• Analyse systemic failures, repeat breakdowns and automation‑related production losses; lead structured root cause analysis and ensure sustainable corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
• Support sites with complex or high‑impact automation incidents while strengthening site capability and ownership.
• Identify and prioritise opportunities to improve throughput, quality, energy performance, process stability, OPI and cost through automation and advanced control.
• Develop reusable troubleshooting practices, standard diagnostics, technical guidance and lessons‑learned mechanisms across the manufacturing network.

Connaissances

Automation leadership

Cross-site experience

Industrial automation

Formation

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Electronic/Mechatronics/Process Control/Instrumentation/Automation

Description du poste

The HEINEKEN Company seeks an experienced Automation Manufacturing Leader to shape reliability, cybersecurity and digital manufacturing across multiple sites. You will set standards, governance and lifecycle practices for automation technologies in a complex, diverse production network.

You will partner with operations, IT and engineering to drive safer, more reliable, and scalable automation solutions while balancing risk, cost and long-term business needs.