Industry: Automotive
Location: Pretoria

Responsibility & Authority:

• Engineering knowledge – Strong understanding of the electrical, mechanical, and software engineering principles needed to create and maintain automated processes
• Design skills – Developing a new process, PLC programmers use program architecture principles to design it and draft blueprints or 3D drawings
• Mechanical expertise – when the time comes to physically put the process together, PLC programmers that can complete the technical aspects of installation
• Logical reasoning – aside from using PLC programming languages such as ladder logic, programmers that use rational steps and mathematical concepts to design project flows
• Problem-solving skills – in a project with many parts and a combination of software and electro-mechanical interfaces, things are bound to go wrong. PLC programmers must identify any problem’s source and create the best solution
• Program Human Machine Interface (HMI), Man Machine Interface (MMI), Operator Interface System (OIS), and Operator Interface Panel (OIP) devices.
• Design graphics for HMI, MMI, etc.
• Maintain programs and supporting documentation.
• Supply technical support to production and field service personnel.

General skills of the function

• Electrical / Millwright Qualification or similar
• PLC technical certification
• At least 5 to 10 years’ experience as a PLC programmer
• Knowledge of Computer tools (Excel, Word, Power Point….)
• Knowledge of AutoCAD
• Robot Programming
• Mechanical expertise
• Engineering knowledge
• Design skills
• Logical reasoning
• Problem-solving skills