Senior Automation Engineer (Mechatronics)

SUMMARY:
A leading company in the east of Johannesburg is seeking a Senior Electronic Engineer.

POSITION INFO:
Purpose of the Job:
To lead a technology strategy that will ensure adequate manufacturing and testing equipment capacity at all EDU, EIU, and ED plants, as well as technical engineering support for the control equipment assembling plant. This will include the maintenance and upgrade of existing systems as well as the design and development of future automated facilities. The job will also require management of engineering projects, including the relevant technical, engineering, and software teams in both the EIU and CE operations.

Required Outputs:

• Identify potential areas of improvement in current manufacturing and/or testing equipment and processes and manage the implementation of replacement equipment/processes.
• Plan, lead, organise, and control engineering initiatives/actions to ensure that future capacity requirements are met through the sustenance of existing systems and execution of new projects.
• Identify new technologies, processes, or standards that can be used in the supply chain to improve and optimise quality and reduce costs in the relevant manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Play a lead role (of a technical nature) in the development of automation processes across the entire supply chain.
• Provide support to outsourced automation projects: Help create documentation, such as a user requirement specification, provide technical assistance, commissioning oversight, integration into current systems and long-term support to manufacturing and automation projects implemented through outsourced companies.
• Provide manufacturing insight to projects where new products are developed or major changes are made to existing products, to influence products or processes early in the product development lifecycle.
• Keep abreast of new product development (especially in R&D) and work closely with the industrializing process through the entire lifecycle of development.
• Lead current manufacturing personnel to implement new automation and manufacturing standards for projects that will create a framework of how engineering type projects are run within manufacturing, which includes (but are not limited to) software standards, documentation, project planning framework templates for automation, creating standards for parts and processes, commissioning procedures and sign offs.
• Provide technical support to current legacy equipment and systems.
• Transfer knowledge applicable to manufacturing processes and systems to other team members to raise the level of technical capabilities of the manufacturing team.
• Constantly develop skills of a technical nature to be an expert in the field of automation.
• Actively work towards bridging the gap between various personnel and departments that contribute to the supply chain or by implementing communication strategies and project planning integration between departments.

• Base salary +/-R 1 million pa
• Car Allowance = R 189 000 pa
• Med aid
• Pension
• Fuel claims