British American Tobacco Recruitment for Entry Level Electrical Technicians (SMD Production)

British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is a market leading, global organisation with a long, established history and a bright and dynamic future. Thanks to our people we have continued to deliver growth and exceed expectations in an increasingly complex and challenging marketplace.


If you have the talent and motivation to help us succeed you’ll find we are equally committed to helping you reach your full potential too.


British American Tobacco is recruiting to fill the position below:




Job Title: Electrical Technician (SMD Production)
Job number: 14047BR
Location: Ibadan
Appointment type: Permanent
Purpose Statement 

• To ensure the reduction of breakdown on SMD and FRMD machines and achieve maximum availability and OEE through effective provision of electrical support to all SMD production equipment in line with best practices, at an effective cost, in a hygienic and safe working environment.

Principal Accountabilities 

• Provide technical support to production machines in SMD and FRD.
• Ensure maximum machine availability and efficiency through prompt attendance to electrical issues on the machine
• Provide Sytemic Troubleshooting using the PLC
• Modification of PLC Programmes when necessary.
• Ensure CID and WEGA units are optimized for better performance
• Ensure all quality parameters and detectors are optimized and maintained to ensure waste is minimized.
• Effective and efficient deployment of resources.
• Ensure downtime and root cause analysis is done regularly
• Ensure spares usage is controlled, captured and reviewed
• Continuously looking for better ways of carrying out repair and resolving issues
• Installing new and existing equipment upgrade
• Modification of Electrical circuitry to accommodate machine modification.
• Provide in-house training to electro technical staff when the need arises to improve technical skill.
• Implement EHS audit recommendations and ensure all guards are intact and working.
• Attend to technical call out request from SMD Cell Managers.
• Ensures month on month reduction in electrical downtime in the Cell
• Implementation of downtime analysis of SMD machines in the Cell
• Ensure electrical issues are resolved and captured daily
• Ensure all checks and reports are up to date
• Ensure faults are fix as soon as it happened

Key Success Factors 

• Increase machine OEE via effective maintenance and downtime analysis.
• Up to date operational records kept
• Good House keeping
• Zero record of accident in the department
• Good communication skills, high work efficiency
• Ability to define objectives and achieve success 
• Consistently operate within agreed quality targets

Additional Information: 

• The day-to-day technical activities in a Making and Packing Machine combination and Filter rod making machines in SMD need strict monitoring and good coordination. This is the responsibility of the job holder.

Desirable Requirement: 

• Ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines.

How to Apply



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Deadline  26th February, 2017.