SADAFCO
Senior Process Technician
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
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Job expiry date: 28/07/2025
Job overview
Date posted
14/06/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR Undisclosed per month
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Professional qualification
Expiration date
28/07/2025
Job description
The Senior Process Technician is responsible for ensuring that all factory process equipmentâsuch as fresh milk reception and mixing systems, pumps, pipes, vacuum systems, valves, pasteurizers, UHTs, homogenizers, tanks, agitators, and CIP systemsâis maintained in excellent operating condition. This role involves executing preventive and corrective maintenance activities to enhance equipment effectiveness, reduce conversion costs and product wastage, and eliminate quality issues and customer complaints. The technician is also tasked with continuously improving maintenance practices, optimizing maintenance costs, and initiating technical improvement projects while ensuring adherence to health, safety, and food safety standards.
Required skills
preventive maintenance
corrective maintenance
dairy process equipment
pasteurizers
homogenizers
sterilizers
valves
agitators
heat exchangers
filtration systems
CIP systems
vacuum systems
electromechanical maintenance
equipment diagnostics
technical manuals
P&ID reading
process equipment inspection
mechanical systems
Key responsibilities
- Conduct daily routine checks on all the process equipment in the factory to detect any damages or to check if there is a need for undertaking repairs on existing equipment. Use check lists and the established process equipment inspection procedures to keep all process equipment in an excellent operational condition.
- Perform the daily and weekly process equipment maintenance activities as per the technical manuals and maintenance procedures.
- Ensure all spare parts are installed on the process equipment as per the manuals, manufacturerâs recommendations and the maintenance procedures.
- Develop, implement, review, and improve the PM plans and schedules of the above equipment.
- Provide on-site technical support & proactive response to breakdowns, ensuring production continuity.
- Arrange and order the relevant spare parts, considering the delivery time and budgets.
- Collaborate with all departments (Projects, spare parts stores, planning, technical, production & quality) and communicate the PM schedules well in advance.
- Monitor, control, record and improve the process equipment maintenance cost and initiate actions to optimize it.
- Record all abnormal events in log sheets and escalate the critical issues regarding quality, performance, environmental & safety issues (e.g., breakdowns, product leakages, etc.) and take appropriate actions to resolve it.
- Review and update the PM check lists and ensure all planned PM activities will be completed on time.
- Strictly follow good maintenance practices and improve them further, considering the expected OEE, conversion costs, downtime, and quality of products.
- Ensure relevant process equipment is always in the basic condition.
- Initiate improvement projects to ensure a safer, efficient, and effective manufacturing operation. Work together with Head of Technical and technical team to prepare relevant budgets and improvement projects.
- Ensure there will be no shortcuts and quality of work is not compromised.
- Monitor the departmentâs KPIs and take actions to reduce maintenance cost and improve OEE, wastage and quality failures.
- Prepare weekly and monthly reports, based on the agreed KPIs, targets and projects.
- Assist Head of Technical with other maintenance activities.
- Strictly follow and implement all health and safety and food safety procedures, protecting employees and products and report all unsafe and risky operations.
- Supervise the installation and commissioning of new equipment and /or the upgrade of an existing system.
- Guide, Coach and train the newcomers.
Experience & skills
- Technical Education (Mechanics or similar) background is a must, engineering degree is an advantage.
- At least 5-7 years technical hands-on experience on dairy process equipment.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of process systems (High share mixers, pasteurizers, homogenizers, sterilizers, valves, tanks etc.)
- Very good understanding of automations and mechanical operation and maintenance.
- Very Good electromechanically skills (motors, sensors, etc.).
- Very Good understanding of food manufacturing operations.
- Ability to read P&IDs, flow charts & diagrams, MMs and EMs.
- Languages: Fluent in English.
- Ability to work mornings / evenings / weekends, depending on the assigned shift.
- Ability to work under pressure and handle deadlines.
