Automation Engineer

Job Summary

Every day, hundreds of millions of people depend on the food industry. So, for us, how we automate food processing and packaging needs to be world-class. That’s where our Automation Engineers come in. 

Whether you’re working with project teams, identifying improvements, or using your mastery of PLC language to transform production outputs for customers, your expertise and innovation will be pivotal to automating solutions that improve food quality and safety for people everywhere. 

At Tetra Pak, you’ll make an impact to be proud of – for food, people and the planet.

What you will do

As our new Automation Engineer, you will:

• Develop and track project program & engineering resource requirements including design, installation,and commissioning tasks.

• Develop technically Plant Automation solutions (hardware and software) including:

• Technical descriptions for quotations

• Can participate in customer meetings, presentations and negotiations.

• Participate in understanding of Automation Software

• Generate Function Descriptions and Functional Block Charts for internal review.

• Develop automation software, FAT, SAT & Handover.

• Various off and on site application test procedures.

• Maintain Documentations as per Tetra Pak documentation policy

• Some ability to deliver customer training for automation systems preferred.

• Responsible for application functionality, system functionality, etc.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of relevant working procedures, templates, standards etc.

• Report to the Project Manager for project & program related tasks including budget control, progress reports & forecasting

• Analyze, design, develop, and implement an automation solution including database, reports, HMI and PLC programs to meet project requirements.

• Configure control system including PLC and the HMI/SCADA system.

• Finalize automation options such as distributed I/O and/or control field bus networks, etc.

• Design, test and configure control panels, motor control centers, Ethernet networks, ASI networks, and pneumatic circuits, for automation systems.

• Develop Automation architecture.

• Configure valve tops, variable frequency drives and motor starters.

• Help breakdown and plan the project into phases and fulfill the plan and project milestones in time and in full according to budget

• Manage automation activities on site for installation, commissioning, and performance testing phases

We believe you have

• A bachelor’s degree, or higher in Instrumentation/ Mechatronics/ Automation Engineering.

• Knowledge of PLC programming on Rockwell or Siemens systems

• Knowledge of SCADA programming on Wonderware Intouch, System platform, Rockwell or SiemensScada systems

• Knowledge on Recipe manager – InBatch or equivalent

• Experience on Ethernet networking and field bus systems such as Profibus, Asi, Control-Net, Device-Net etc.