Process Control Engineer

Job description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose for this job is to manage, design, co-ordinate and implement the installations of new process control systems within brewing, energy & fluids and packaging. To ensure sustainable integrity and stability of the control and automation infrastructure and proactively recommend best practices within the control and automation arena.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Provide insight and feedback on how processes are controlled to area support plant process optimization in terms of quality, cost and speed improvements
To support regions with process optimization efforts in terms of improving quality, cost and speed of brewery processes managers and process engineers so that optimization proposals can be engineered
Support the change control process at the brewery to ensure that approved changes are made in accordance with approved procedures and vendor recommendations to the control and automation system as specified by area managers and process engineers
Follow-up on the effectiveness and sustainability of changes made
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
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 regions with C&A project implementation and ensure that they adhere to the C&A standards within the project
To support regions with control and automation project implementations by ensuring correct control and automation standards are followed and advising on technologies where applicable
Provide input to the business case by reviewing business cases and making recommendations to the regions
Assist with technology selection by providing regions with insight into new technologies and making recommendations around these
Provide regions with advice of technology implementation during technologies
Provide regions with divisional standards where they exist or assist regions in developing new standards in conjunction with the regions
Design and commissioning of projects
Support regions with problems experienced in the control and automation layer that has been escalated to BIS

Qualifications & Experience:

Min – Degree in Electrical Engineering / Software
Min – 3 years’ experience with Control and Automation including:
Networks and servers
Microsoft server software
Manufacturing Execution systems (MES)
PLC systems
Manufacturing processes
S88 batch control standard
Field instrumentation and networks
SCADA systems

Additional Information:

Band: VII

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.