Senior PLC Technician at Pollock & Associates

Job Description

• You will be required to maintain and repair all mechanical and electrical plant and equipment.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Matric / Grade 12 (minimum)
• Qualified Artisan (N3), Red Seal Millwright Trade Test
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the FMCG / PACKAGING / FILLING Industry
• Must have a sound knowledge of automated manufacturing equipment.
• Must have PLC experience
• Must be willing to travel (2 – 3 months at a time)

Key Role Responsibilities  

• Daily planned maintenance routines.
• Daily preventative maintenance routines:
• Routine inspections/early diagnoses of possible equipment failures, and excessive wear.  
• Communication with supervisors/production to arrange preventative maintenance time.  
• Arranging for parts to be available timeously to carry out preventative maintenance routines.
• Diagnose the root cause of equipment failure.
• Repair failure to “good as new” as speedily as possible.
• Ensure equipment’s correct operation due to the action taken and obtain manufacturing process approval of equipment’s operating condition.
• Assist production in resolving process-related problems.  
• Assist with operator training where required.  
• Communicate with production on planning changes to production runs timeously.  
• “First off” inspection on all process changes.
• Periodically inspect products manufactured against quality requirements.