Automation Technician - Neave

Shatterprufe® is the leading manufacturer and distributor of OE Auto and aftermarket replacement glass products. The company manufactures genuine Shatterprufe® laminated windscreens and Armourplate® toughened automotive safety glass products. Three automotive glass plants manufacture over 4 million pieces of laminated and toughened glass a year for customers worldwide. Shatterprufe® products are installed by Original Motor manufacturers in Southern Africa.

Main job purpose

Responsible for supporting production teams in their delivery of products and services by providing electrical support and assuming responsibility for the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair of all electronic, electrical and computer-based equipment including backups of all engineering related software in order to maintain uptime on all electronic machines while ensuring that costs are contained and minimised.

Main Objective

Take Shatterprufe forward and stay abreast of technology to keep Shatterprufe viable and competitive so as to improve efficiencies and ensuring that uptime is improved through proactive and preventive maintenance.

Assisting with Plant Engineering continuous improvement projects in compliance with SX safety standards and regulations and Engineering Best Practices so as to improve uptime on all machines and ensuring costs are contained and minimised.

Responsible for carrying out root cause analysis sessions on recurring problems of machine control systems with a multi-disciplined team to prepare fault finding logs/ tables from root cause problem solving and drive the implementation of the agreed upon changes and innovations.

Responsible for maintaining all software programmes and keep abreast of version changes and updates from OEM’s or service providers so as reduce the impact of these changes while maintaining uptime and containing costs. 

Provide customer support and education, working with users to identify needs, determine source of problem and to provide information on product use.

Ensure effective communication of relevant information to all stakeholders to support decision making for the business.

Critical job requirements

National Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Electronics or Mechatronics

Strong PLC/ Programming Source Coding (Visual Basics)      

Drives and control systems

Experience in an automated industrial environment 

3 years in an Automation environment   

Experience in Engineering Best Practices

Experience in a manufacturing environment   

Experience in an automated industrial environment          

Knowledge and Skills        

PLC (Preferably Allen Bradely)     

Electronic drawing knowledge

Sever Exposure to Fanuc    

Automation Control Systems

Minor project management  

Technical Procedures

Fault Finding and Reporting Skills 

MS Office

Communication skills (written and verbal)       

Problem Solving

Decision Making

Conceptual and Analytical Skills for fault finding and problem-solving purposes

PG Group, and its subsidiaries, are committed to the principles of employment equity and as such are equal opportunity employers.  Qualified applicants who apply for any vacancies will be considered with due consideration based on of fairness and equity. Factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability are not consider exclusively and are not determinative of any appointments made by PG Group or its subsidiaries

Requisition ID: 2488