Automation Engineer - Casablanca
Company sector : Other Industries
COMPANY :
Founded in 1965, Groupe Richbond is the leader in its field of activity. Today, we are manufacturers of foam and mattresses, weavers, seamstresses, upholsterers, and carpenters, and we continually improve our business.
Groupe Richbond has expanded its business to cover several areas, from furniture to real estate, including the agri-food industry and hotel outfitting.
The group employs around 3,000 employees plus 5,400 indirect jobs, spread across 11 production sites, including 1 in Ivory Coast.
In March 2018, Richbond Group acquired a majority stake in "Silentnight Kenya", a company specializing in the production of spring mattresses based in Nairobi.
Company culture :
Richbond operates within a predominantly cooperative culture, where people, trust and teamwork play a central role in performance. The company promotes a close management approach focused on support, empowerment and strong interpersonal relationships. This collaborative foundation is complemented by a clear performance-driven mindset, emphasizing ambition, results and competitiveness. Innovation and structured processes further reinforce the culture by encouraging initiative, creativity and operational efficiency.
Job :
Main Mission:
- Participate in the installation, commissioning, and maintenance of the group's automated systems.
- Contribute to the reliability and performance improvement of automated equipment.
- Assist the maintenance department in diagnosing and resolving automation failures.
- Participate in updating programs, diagrams, and technical documentation.
- Ensure the safety and compliance of interventions on automation systems.
Main Activities:
- Perform wiring and basic configuration of PLCs, Variable Speed Drives, Servo Drives, sensors, and actuators.
- Conduct operational tests under the supervision of the automation manager.
- Perform simple troubleshooting on programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs).
- Identify causes of failure and propose corrective actions.
- Keep intervention history up-to-date in the CMMS (COSWIN).
- Contribute to improving the availability of production lines.
- Participate in updating and optimizing PLC programs.
- Keep electrical plans, diagrams, and PLC programs up-to-date.
- Ensure regular recording and backup of programs for PLCs, drives, and HMIs.
- Implement a standardized procedure for archiving, traceability, and version management of programs.
Required profile :
Profile Sought:
- Education: Bac+2/3 (Associate's/Bachelor's degree) in industrial automation, electrical engineering, or industrial maintenance.
- Experience: 2 to 3 years in a similar role.
- Skills:
- Knowledge of Siemens, DELTA, Schneider PLCs, or equivalent.
- Ability to read electrical and logic diagrams.
- Proficiency in tools for backing up and archiving PLC programs.
- Basic knowledge of pneumatics and instrumentation.
- Proficiency in CMMS (Coswin is a plus).
- Analytical mindset, rigor, teamwork skills.
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