About this role
Job title: Automation Engineer
General Information
GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 50 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join us! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.
Responsibilities / Tasks
- Know manufacturing processes in the beverage or dairy or food industry.
- CIP Know-how
- Hygienic design know-how.
- Generate pre-engineering of automation development.
- Scheduler of automation activities
- Model control sequences according to P&IDs
- List of entities, equipment controls, control modules and devices
- Designed FDS.
- Dimensioning, software and hardware list generation for automation architecture.
- Develop automation engineering, using ISA Standards.
- Review existing process engineering and make necessary changes to support project execution when necessary.
- PLC programming of process and CIP sequences.
- HMI and SCADA programming.
- Setup different Industrial protocol networks
- Setup IO periphery
- Setup and commissioning VFDs
- FAT Procedures.
- Software
- Electrical Cabinets
- Skids
- Documents
- Project commissioning
- IO test
- Dry test
- Wet commissioning
- Documents and meeting.
- Product testing.
- Water production test.
- CIP procedures.
- PAT (Product Acceptance Test)
- Documents
Your Profile / Qualifications
- Degree in engineering career (Industrial, Electrical, Automation, Mechatronics)
- Master’s degree in Automation technologies.
- Know manufacturing processes. (beverage, dairy, Liquid).
- English proficiency (B2).
- (Valuable) Formal training in Project Management.
- 5+ years of experience working as an automation engineer.
- 5+ years of experience in a process projects commissioning
- Electricity, automation, control, and pneumatics.
- PLC programming.
- Siemens
- Schneider
- Rockwell
- SCADA Programming.
- Siemens
- Schneider
- Wonderware
- Rockwell Factory Talk
- Experience in Batch or control and Continuous control.
- Industrial Protocol Networks Know-how.
- Databases know-how
- SQL scripts
- SQL table and Store Procedures.
- SQL Language.
- Server & Client Administration
- QHSE standards in industries (particularly IAA), S88, S95, S101 norms
About Us
GEA is one of the largest suppliers of process technology for the food industry and a wide range of other industries. The international technology group focuses on process technology and components for sophisticated production processes in various end-user markets.
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