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Automation Strategist

1 month ago

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Maple Leaf Foods Full time

The Opportunity:

The Maple Leaf Foods team is seeking a highly skilled Automation Strategist to join our facility. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing the automation strategy for our facility, including manpower resource planning, disaster recovery planning, production support, department training plan, and departmental budget planning.

Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

  • Lead and support the automation team to align with the automation strategy plan.
  • Support and backup plan for all plant control and automation systems, including PLC, PC, HMI, MES, SCADA, robotics, and building automation.
  • Develop and manage a change control system for PLC/HMI, electrical drawings, and related documents.
  • Manage the instrumentation program to meet all facility FSQA, regulatory, and operational requirements.
  • Develop predictive, preventative, and proactive maintenance requirements for controls-related systems.
  • Manage vendors and suppliers to establish strong collaborative relationships to ensure required service and support contracts are current.
  • Develop and manage a facility controls and electrical build standard in alignment with corporate engineering standards.
  • Work with reliability area leaders to establish programs to mentor and develop reliability support team to enhance knowledge and skills of automated equipment.
  • Competent to troubleshoot equipment in the plant locally or through VPN access when required.
  • Mentor team members when required to work through and solve equipment controls-related issues.
  • Be comfortable with the escalation procedure and understand the requirement of receiving after-hours calls from time to time.
  • Develop contingency support plan for all automation team members. Adequate knowledge transfer between all team members on plant equipment.
  • Maintain equipment-level network systems to align with corporate IS protocols and requirements.
  • Manage and support facility MES/SCADA systems.
  • Maintain OEM support contact list and VPN connectivity.
  • Shall demonstrate full commitment to the implementation of the requirements of the Global Standard for Food Safety and to processes which facilitate continual improvement of food safety and quality management.