Responsibilities / Tasks

- To assist and work with NPE Head of Engineering in defining and implement the strategy for the Automation & Commissioning department
- Ensure project automation compliance with customer specifications, functional analysis, GEA norms and automation standards.
- Document Automation Engineering according to GEA procedures.
- Functional analysis development.
- If necessary, organize, coordinate, monitor and control the development work for control assigned to the project.
- Organize and initiate the implementation of the automation project in strict compliance with the budget framework.

Seek for budget improvement according the quality and deadlines restrictions.
- Preserving GEA interest in the contract on-site with regard to any changes in automation.
- Participate and contribute to productivity improvement projects, as well as the innovation approach in the automation domain.
- Meet regulatory safety regulations in force on the site, or established by GEA.
- Evaluate constantly its own safety and the supplier’s safety during commissioning.
- Promote the sharing of skills and ideas across teams

Your Profile / Qualifications

Leader Skills

- To coordinate resources to attend both projects and services, as well as cooperation with external GEA offices

- To support, track and empower each individual member of the team

- To implement and support the strategy defined for the Automation and Commissioning department





- To promote and implement automation standards

Technical Skills

- Know manufacturing processes in the beverage or dairy or food industry.

- CIP Know-how

- Hygienic design know-how.

- Generate pre-engineering of automation development.

- Scheduler of automation activities

- Model control sequences according to P&IDs;

- List of entities, equipment controls, control modules and devices

- Designed FDS.

- Dimensioning, software and hardware list generation for automation architecture.

- Develop automation engineering, using ISA Standards.

- Review existing process engineering and make necessary changes to support project execution when necessary.

- PLC programming of process and CIP sequences.

- HMI and SCADA programming.

- Setup different Industrial protocol networks

- Setup IO periphery

- Setup and commissioning VFDs

- FAT Procedures.

- Software

- Electrical Cabinets

- Skids

- Project commissioning

- IO test

- Dry test

- Wet commissioning

- Product testing.

- Water production test.

- CIP procedures.

- PAT (Product Acceptance Test)

Soft Skills

- Internal stakeholders communication

- Engineering team.

- GEA CoCs.

- Project Management Team.

- Automation Team.

- External stakeholders communication

- Costumer site

- Sub suppliers

- Providers

- Time Management,

- Activities Description.

- Schedule of milestones

- Task Planning.

📌 Automation & Commissioning Team Leader (Bogotá)
🏢 Gea
📍 Bogotá