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Project Process Control Engineer

The South African BreweriesZA

24 days ago

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Job title : Project Process Control Engineer

Job Location : Gauteng,

Deadline : October 05, 2025

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Key Roles and Responsibilities :

Governance & Standards

Support plant with C&A project implementation and ensure that they adhere to the C&A standards within the project

To support the plant with control and automation project implementations by ensuring correct control and automation standards are followed and advising on technologies where applicable

Assist with technology selection by providing the plant with insight into new technologies and making recommendations around these technologies

Provide the plant with Global Technical Specifications (GTS) and Zone Technical Specifications (ZTS) where they exist or assist the plant in developing new standards in conjunction with the regions

Provide the plant with advice of technology implementation during design and commissioning of projects

Lead design and architecture workshops and ensure that a sound design and architecture solution is developed

Ensure that the correct technologies are selected to deliver the solution

Co-ordinate with System Integrators to ensure our C&A standards are adhered to during divisional control and automation projects

Review, update and specify C&A standards

To be the custodians of all manufacturing standards by reviewing standards, updating these standards and developing new standards

Understand current standards and know why and how to implement these

Coach plant staff on current standards

Review standards and make recommendations to improve standards

Create new standards for new technologies and get plant manager approval

Train systems staff in new standards

Audit plant against C&A standards and ensuring compliance

Conduct an unbiased audit on specified systems and process within the manufacturing system’s environment

Document findings of the audit and assist the plant in creating action plans and to close out gaps

Assist with implementation of standards and processes where applicable and having follow-up meetings

Maintenance & Support 

Resolve issues that have been escalated or assigned as quickly as possible

Log issues that have been escalated and report on these on a weekly basis

Communicate root cause and resolution details

Interact with vendor to ensure quick resolution of issues escalated

Escalating issues to vendors where required by logging the call with them and keeping track of root cause and resolution.

Provide vendors with feedback on software tested and work with them to resolve any issues.

Escalate issues that cannot be resolved, to vendors.

Keep track of vendor escalated issues

Support the change control process at the plant to ensure that approved changes are made in accordance with approved procedures and vendor recommendations to the control and automation system as specified by the plant manager and site engineers

Follow-up on the effectiveness and sustainability of changes made

Ensure plant efficiency by maintaining C&A systems uptime and resolution of C&A breakdowns in as short a time period as possible

Attending to and resolving C&A breakdowns both during and after office hours either remotely or by coming to site

Conducting after action reviews to engineer, design and execute sustainable preventative measures

Support plant with problems experienced in the Control and Automation layer that has been escalated to Tech Supply, ZBS Maintenance or Solutions

To support plant with operational control and automation issues that have been escalated to Tech Supply, ZBS Maintenance or Solutions

Audio visual support for projectors, zoom rooms, auditoriums, training rooms and boardrooms

Escalation point for all help desk issues

Ensure that manufacturing server checks are being done including Avmar backup checks – part of workflow verification to ensure backups are done - hardware, cluster health, server operating system, server application, time sync, SQL, anti-virus, SCCM, SCOM, incidents being driven to closure and deviations are being resolved or incidents logged by manufacturing systems resources or Solutions

Ensure that Inter plc network maintenance – switches for inter plc network not managed by the network team but by region – is being done

Act as single point of contact for outsourced Solutions services : Cameras, IT generators, IT UPS, IT networks

Continuity & Risk : 

To ensure and maintain control and automation systems uptime by continuously assessing and mitigating risks, resolving breakdowns and instituting sustainable prevention measures

Conducting C&A risk assessments and recommending mitigation as per the site risk assessment process

Executing mitigation efforts in reduction of the risks identified

Developing and Testing Disaster Recovery Procedures including ensuring data and configuration back-ups can be successfully restored

In the event of a disaster or unforeseen event - executing the disaster recovery procedures in accordance with the Business Continuity Plan

Correctly scope project and CAPEX to reduce or eliminate high risk items including but not limited only to hardware and software obsolescence and operational technology (OT)

Assist identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities in partnership with Security Operations Centre and Solutions

Ensure antivirus and anti-malware systems are up-to-date and functioning correctly

Projects (Investments) : 

Provide input to the Business Case by reviewing business cases and making recommendations to the plant

Provide the plant with advice of technology implementation during design and commissioning of projects

Provide technical leadership for divisional control and automation projects in a timely manner

Assist with determining scope of the project through communication session with the business, stakeholders and users and documenting the requirements

Manage development and testing of solution

Lead commissioning of the solution at the plant

Execute small optimization projects, hence adding value in terms of cost saving

Coordination of Control and Automation aspects of CAPEX projects

Optimize : 

Support plant process optimisation in terms of Quality, Cost and Speed improvements

To support the plant with process optimisation efforts in terms of improving quality, cost and speed of plant processes

Provide insight and feedback on how processes are controlled to plant management team so that optimisation proposals can be engineered

Analyse and resolve long-term operational issues experienced in the plant

Minimum Requirements : 

Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Mechatronic Engineering or Computer Science

In-depth knowledge of Process Control Automation

Specialization in Industrial Control & Automation

At least 3 years in industrial control and automation or completion of Control and Automation technical traineeship

FMCG or beverages experience in industrial control and automation is advantageous

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