Automation Engineer at Seven Up Bottling Company Limited

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Automation Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

• Provide and ensure leadership in the design, development and deployment of reliable and sustainable electrical and automation systems of all bottling and utilities equipment in the plant.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality and timely support to the plant in the events of complex automation and electrical challenges.
• Set some level of standards in the plant automation operating procedures.
• Ensure basic and standard automation tools are available for the automation team of the plant.
• Facilitate the use of condition monitoring tools for the routine assessment of automation equipment status in the plant.
• Ensure availability and regular update of all user program backup for all automation equipment in the plant.
• Ensure availability and regular update of electrical documentation for all equipment in the plant.
• Conduct routine audit of all electrical controls of all equipment in the plant.
• Develop a list of critical automation spare parts that will be available to prevent stoppages of the production lines/utility.
• Regularly communicate to management any critical actions needed to restore the condition of the equipment to 100% reliability.
• Facilitate the capability development of the plant automation team to keep with current trends.
• Prepare annual automation engineering budget – CAPEX and R&M (zero based budgets).
• Ensures implementation of basic cycle maintenance, cleaning and inspection and instill these principles to be part of the culture of operators and technicians.
• Take lead in change management for the engineering/automation department related to people structure or role changes, technology enhancement, regulatory and company initiatives on productivity.

Requirements

• A minimum of Bachelor of Engineering Degree (B.Eng.) or HND in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.
• 5– 7 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a beverage bottling company in a managerial capacity.
• Experienced in budgeting and people management
• Knowledge of bottling operations: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety
• Operational planning expertise/experience
• Understanding of financial impact of decisions
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others

Application Closing Date
31st July, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@sevenup.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.