Regional Product Support Engineer at Sidel

Sidel is a leading provider of equipment and services solutions for packaging beverage, food, home and personal care products in PET, can, glass and other materials. With over 40,000 machines installed in more than 190 countries, we have nearly 170 years of proven experience, with a strong focus on the factory of tomorrow with advanced systems, line engineering and innovation. Our 5,500+ employees worldwide are passionate about providing solutions that fulfil customer needs and boost the performance of their lines, products and businesses.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Regional Product Support Engineer

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Your opportunity

• Automation Product Support Expert must secure the operational follow up & technical support of all equipments on the automation side, through the life of the machine.
• The expert will also ensure that the population of colleagues (FSE, PM, CCM, ASM) in direct contact with the customer is well supported through email, telephone, RAC, RVA and onsite.
• At the same time, the expert will ensure proper preparation and distribution of the appropriate documentation concerning the troubleshooting of automation issues on the equipments.
• The Automation Product Support Expert should also be able to provide basic mechanical support to our internal and external customers.

Your Mission

• Participate on the Contact Center Ticketing System and provide solution and support to our external customers as well as to our Field Service Engineer on palletizer equipment.
• Provide daily telephone & email support for automation but also for basic mechanical issues to internal (FSE, PM, CCM, ASM) and external customers on Sidel equipment.
• Secure and manage Non-Conformity and warranty cost on the SINCRO tool.
• Support FSE during new project installation and service site execution on automation issues (as well as basic mechanical support).
• Apply Root Cause Analysis methodology on automation and mechanical issues on equipment, driving data collection and preventive/corrective action.
• Report in a concise manner the issues seen on the field and requests for engineering modification to the Product Group.
• Provide any preliminary solution to internal and external customers.
• Secure retrofit application on the Equipment installed base concerning automation and mechanical solution.
• Contribute to support service activities on spare parts, training, maintenance opportunities, Line Improvement.
• Travel onsite or coordinate intervention on site of experts in case of technical issues that require a specific RCA, troubleshooting for equipment.
• Provide daily telephone & email support to internal and external customers, throughout the life of the machine
• Secure retrofit application on the installed base
• Secure performances of commercially released equipments and lines.

Your Profile
Level of Education and Language:

• Bachelor`s Degree or equivalent
• Good level of English
• Local Languages spoken in the region are a plus.

Level of Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years with technical assistance and/or field experience
• Electrical fundaments (safety equipment, sensors, motion, servo drivers, inverters)
• acknowledge of beverage technology (aseptic and not): combi/stand alone technology & trade/line eqps.
• Knowledge of PLC platform (Siemens S7, Siemens TIA Portal is a plus, B&R, Rockwell Automation, Elau)
• Knowledge of HMI (Zenon and/or Citect) and Motion platforms (Danfoss and Elau)
• ability to manage and satisfy customer requests:

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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