Clover S.A. (Proprietary) Ltd. is a leading South African food and beverage company known for its wide range of dairy and non-alcoholic beverage products. It operates in South Africa and other selected African countries. Clover is headquartered in Roodepoort, South Africa. Founded in 1898, Clover originally began as a farmers’ cooperative in the Natal Midlands. It operated under the name Natal Creamery Ltd.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Engineer Technologist to support the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimisation of process control systems at our Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, accuracy, and efficiency of instrumentation and automated systems to support safe and productive plant performance.

Requirements

• National Diploma

• Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level

• Business English: Fluent
• Computer literacy (Intermediate)
• Work shifts/weekends/public holidays if needed

Competencies

• Proactive and action orientated
• Approaches situations with an open mind and solves problems creatively
• Solves problems through effective decision making.
• Maintains high standards
• Achieves Results Effectively
• Must be a team player
• Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective
• Administrative capabilities
• Thinking and reasoning logically
• Communicates effectively
• Apply expertise and technology

Duties and Responsibilities

Maintain the process control and instrumentation

• Maintenance & repairs to all instrumentation, process control equipment & automation systems
• Optimisation of all control systems regarding processes and production lines
• Provide technical and specialist support at all levels to the entire branch
• Ensure that all process control software is backed up & left up to date according to set standards
• Project work, modifications & upgrading of control systems
• Systems administration of all high level software & systems
• Standby duties

Responsible for  process control & instrumentation

• Responsible for normal and preventative maintenance on process control systems, included fault tracking, handling of large breakdowns, storage of the latest duplicate process controle software and resettlement of process communication on software as well as exchange of process control hardware
• Responsible to communicate any need for modification to process control hard- or software