Automation Technician

Flex • TX

90d

About The Position

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary. At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always. Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives. To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Automation Tech located in Austin, TX.

Requirements

• Computer skills.
• Experience with material handling, automation and/or robotics equipment.
• Electronic Assembly: schematics, PCB loading, mechanical assembly.
• Cables: crimping, harness assembly, connector/wire soldering, cable prepping.
• Testing: oscilloscope, cable & harness testing, troubleshooting, component testing, logic analyzer.
• Machine Operations: automatic component insertion equipment, surface mount insertion equipment, wave soldering.
• Mechanical & Electrical Tools: power air guns, taps & dies, alignment tools, measuring tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain continuous system operation by adjusting, repairing, replacing, or modifying automation/robotic system components.
• Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems and components and return to serviceability.
• Ensure preventative maintenance of robotic and process support equipment are completed on a regularly scheduled basis.
• Understand PLCs and read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical diagrams including complex automated system drawings.
• Collaborate with the automation team in the qualification process of automated systems.
• Assist engineers in developing and designing hardware and software required for all automation solutions per specifications.
• Identify machine malfunctions and isolate the failure mechanism through troubleshooting.
• Repair the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
• Perform preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
• Perform calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
• Assist process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
• Analyze and implement corrective action reports and process tracking mechanisms.
• Disassemble instruments and equipment and inspect components for defects.
• Align, repair, replace, and balance component parts and circuitry.
• Assist engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording and indicating instruments and equipment.
• Perform both software and hardware maintenance at the highest level.

Benefits

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision.
• Life Insurance.
• Matching 401K.
• PTO.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Employee discounts at local retailers.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees