PLC Technician

PLC Technician position available in Uitenhage.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance work according to Company and Industry standard
• Active participation in projects focused on improvements of machinery and processes
• Adhere to all health, safety and environment standards and ensure that work is always carried out in a safe manner
• Perform assigned programming tasks
• Generate the necessary documentation associated with this work and participate in the work of training maintenance personnel and sharing acquired knowledge, whenever required to do so
• Document anomalies, generate work reports and general status reports of the work assigned daily
• Request the material resources necessary for the correct performance of the planned maintenance
• Decides and acts independently in the absence of superiors with regards to the incidents and repairs of the company machines and installations
• Ad hoc duties as required

Requirements:

• Minimum Electrical / Mechanical Engineering qualification, B-Tech preferred
• Minimum 5 years Siemens S7 experience, TIA portal, Profibus, WinCC. Allen Bradley will be advantageous.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience within a high production demand automotive manufacturing plant
• Excellent computer knowledge and skills.
• Fault finding and problem solving.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment
• Ideally someone from a system integration background.
• Willing to work rotating shifts, flexible hours, weekends and during Shutdown, if/when required.