Industrial Controls (PLC) Specialist

Portland Bottling Company•Clackamas, OR

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Controls Specialist will work with various departments to improve, maintain and support control systems. The team member will act as a technical lead, and have hands on involvement in manufacturing information system, programming, editing, troubleshooting, maintaining PLC programs and data acquisition/formatting. Other functions such as working with the Control Engineer in software architecture design, development of software applications, and integration into enterprise systems.

Requirements

Proven ability to create, edit, test, troubleshoot rungs of a program file
Demonstrated ability to work on field devices such as temperature, pressure, and flow instrumentation, along with many different types of variable frequency drives
Associate degree or Certificate in related field or a combination of education and experience totaling,
2 years’ experience in field or similar manufacturing environment
2 years’ experience managing projects (installation and improvement of automated production lines)
Proficiency in Allen Bradley and Siemens programming
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application-Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, etc.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in related field or a combination of education and experience totaling 4 years’ experience in field or similar manufacturing environment
4 years’ experience of project management
1 – 2 years electrical engineer / or electrician troubleshooting and reading diagram experience
High proficiency in Allen Bradley and Siemens programming
Basic understanding of electronics, VFD’s and industrial automation components
Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
Experience working with Krones equipment
Experience in a bottling or similar beverage production work environment

Responsibilities

Modify and deploy PLC (AB, Siemens and Rockwell Software) and HMI software (Ignition and Zenon/ Krones) to support operational changes and improvements on the plant floor.
Organizes all plant’s automation documentations, such as PLC programs, machine manuals schematics, and HMI files.
Work with vendors and internal personnel on projects related to automation solutions to increase uptime, efficiencies, improve plant operations, quality and reduce cost
Learns the function of all line equipment and how they operate and communicate to be better equipped for fast troubleshooting.
Provide occasional afterhours remote support for 24/7 operation.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Medical including Prescription and Vision
Dental
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment
401K with company match
Generous pay for time off programs including paid personal time off (PTO), paid floating holidays, paid bereavement and paid jury duty
Employee Assistance Program
Flexible Spending Account
Tuition reimbursement
Targeted learning and development opportunities