Electronic Controls Technician

National Beef • Saint Joseph, MO

9d • Onsite

About The Position

National Beef Leathers of St. Joseph, Missouri, is looking for a qualified professional to join our Maintenance Team as an Electronic Controls Technician. This is a full-time position with competitive pay and benefits, offering a unique work schedule of 3 ½ days on and 3 ½ days off, with rotating shifts. The role involves supporting production throughput, efficiency, cost reduction, and safety improvements, as well as troubleshooting and repairing equipment. This is a safety-sensitive, on-site position.

Requirements

• Solid experience and knowledge of PLC operations, functions and troubleshooting
• Mechanical Systems
• RSlinx
• RS Logix 500
• Studio 5000
• AB Panel-view
• Ignition
• SCADA
• Digital and Analog I/O
• 24V to 480V Troubleshooting
• Ability to communicate well with members of the maintenance and engineering team
• Ability to read Electrical Prints
• Must be available to work flexible hours (on call)
• Must be at least 18 years of age or older
• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to help support production throughput, efficiency, cost reduction and safety improvements
• Provide detailed investigative reports to Electrical Supervisor containing what, when and root cause along with countermeasures on all equipment downtime exceeding 15 minutes
• Responsible for the support of training objectives in the area of PLC and Controls to Maintenance Technicians
• Assist with scheduling, preparation, installation, service parts inventory and maintenance of technical equipment beyond the scope of ordinary maintenance team members
• Assist with the development of controls systems and procedures
• Work with engineering team to document and standardize process improvements
• Provide technical support to existing equipment
• Assist with the collection and storage of all control parameter settings for plant equipment
• Assist with the development of upgrade plans for obsolescent equipment controls
• Improves existing control packages to become more reliable and production/maintenance friendly
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues
• Assist with the maintenance of Electrical diagrams and any other documentation for all production equipment
• Review daily shift maintenance work logs for issues and suggest and implements countermeasures
• Maintenance support for daily production activities and general facilities maintenance
• Perform electrical installations and repair using 480V to 24V
• Troubleshoot and repair conveyor lines, Allen Bradley HMI units
• Multi-task in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Health/Vision/Dental/Prescription
• 401(k) with company match after 1 full year of employments
• Paid vacation
• Paid personal time
• Paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Company paid life insurance and short term disability after 1 year of employment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed