Automation Technician

**1. Position Purpose Statement**

This position is responsible for the maintenance activities in manufacturing and utility sections to ensure timely correction of abnormalities and execution of the site progressive maintenance program to maintain plant reliability concept with effective implementation of Integrated Lean Six Sigma.

**2. Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required**

**(a) Knowledge including: education, qualifications and training**
- Degree/Diploma in Instrumentation/Automation/ Electrical Engineering.
- Knowledge of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and Work Safety

**(b)** **Skills**
- Good Communication Skills, Presentation Skills
- Strong skills and ability to train employees.
- Excellent Technical Attitude.
- Proactive and set to achieve goals with mínimal supervision
- Ability to understand and put in to practice all the requirements;
- Technical and Diagnostics abilities.
- Positive attitude and Proactive approach
- Team player.
- Ability to analyze and solve problems
- Know the Electrical drawing, I/O checking & fault finding through software programming.
- Ability to develop peers about PLC, SCADA ,HMI software programming

**(c) Experience**
- 7 years or more proven experience in electrical, instrumentation and automation - Siemens, Rockwell, Allen Bradley (PLC, HMI and drives).
- Professional experience of minimum 5 years in manufacturing area with PLC/ HMI / drives knowledge of functioning, maintaining and repairing the equipment and technological installations.
- Hands-on experience of debugging the faults in PLC, Communication network, SCADA & process instruments.
- Hands-on Experience of working on Transformer VCB’s, ACB’s, MCC & PCC panels.
- Experience of maintenance & trouble shooting of control circuits, reading electrical drawings etc.
- Experience of Plant critical control network (CCN), Controller remote access for OEMs and networking protocol i.e. control net, device net, Ethernet, mod bus, prefabs etc.
- Handling experience about Metal detectors, check weighs, load cells, date coding machines.
- Experience of Servo motor, Servo drive, encoder, soft starters, VFDs
- Maintenance and calibration experience of 4-20 mA, HART transmitter process instruments.

**3.** **Principal Accountabilities / Responsibilities.**

1. Ensure a safe workplace by the support and maintenance of pro-active safety systems including LOTO (lock out tag out), HS&E Management System, GMP and HACCP. Take full responsibility on the safe operation of the plant within the area of control with a focus on Zero LTI’s (Lost time injuries). Ensure safe workplace including identification of known risks and controls and escalation of larger issues and taking proactive measures to prevent unsafe incidents.

2. Ensure that prompt, uninterrupted and effective support is provided to manufacturing team. Take equal ownership to achieve the targeted line efficiency for the processing and packaging parameters throughout the shift

3. Demonstrate and execute Progressive Maintenance, support Autonomous Maintenance, Focused Improvement and total productive maintenance culture in the entire plant to achieve targeted overall equipment efficiency and Global efficiency with zero loss mentality (zero incidents, zero defects and zero loss) by maintaining the reliability of the equipment.

4. Ensure timely correction of the issues related to automation/ electrical and be able to solve major issues of PLC, HMI and Drives and programming without the intervention of external technical support. Perform modification of programming in the existing cycles to implement any focus ideas to improve the line efficiency.

5. Ensure PLC back up available for the entire plant which is under the control of central maintenance department and timely upgrades the programs as and when required to avoid major down times

6. Provide technical support to the Technical Lead in preparation of annual maintenance budget and control the expenditure of the spare parts consumption within the approved budget limits, also support the team in bringing down maintenance expenditure to become the best in class plant.

7. Demonstrate proactive approach in organizing the availability of required resources to avoid unnecessary down time related to instrumentation and automation issues

8. Demonstrate high level of diagnostic skills, understanding of basic electronic issues of PLC, HMI and Drives and suggests realistic and cost effective solution.

9. Take active part in performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for every breakdown and prevent the recurring of breakdowns due to automation issues.

10. Support Autonomous team by imparting automation training to develop the technical skills of equipment owners for electrical & automation.

11. Perform time based and condition based maintenance on every equipment based on the original equipment manufacturers recommendation. Develop and keep track of history record of each machine for future reference purpose.

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