Maintenance Control Engineer

SK battery America • Commerce, GA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The battery manufacturing controls engineer is responsible for ensuring that plants create the best products possible in the most efficient manner. They are highly analytical and use these skills to examine and improve processes in order to increase productivity. Simultaneously, they are also responsible for ensuring that all equipment is properly maintained. The controls engineer must also be able to work with other departments and external parties to create and implement processes to increase the plant's efficiency. This position will involve interacting with other departments and vendors to solve complex and/or urgent problems by identifying and evaluating alternatives or by providing needed information and advice. Candidate should be a motivated problem-solver that can provide creative solutions to given queries, taking effectiveness and quality into concern based on technological expertise and best practices. As the facility operates 24/7, this position may require on-call support in various circumstances.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree or above in engineering (mechanical, electrical or similar).
• 5+ years of experience with PLC's and HMI's in a high-volume manufacturing maintenance environment.
• Technical proficiency with PLCs (MELSEC Q Series, R Series) and HMIs (GOT2000, GX woks 2 &3, GT Designs.)
• Technical proficiency in the following software applications: Invertor, VFS (Mitsubishi, SIEMENS-_SIMANTIC, Parker, Yaskawa, LS.)
• Technical proficiency in Safety PLC (Pilz, Omron)
• Technical proficiency in Servo control (Mitsubishi, MOOG)
• Technical proficiency in Control Network (CC-Link, RS-485, Ethernet.)
• Working level of English (Verbal, written, etc.)
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

Nice To Haves

• Battery Maintenance experience appreciated (similar equipment experiences to each battery manufacturing process like electrode, assembly, formation preferred.)
• Experience with installation and setup of new battery production equipment (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Working cooperative team environment alongside other maintenance team members on emergency repairs, implementing corrective actions to achieve production milestones.
• Troubleshoot and devise effective solutions to address challenges in equipment including emergency repairs to production equipment to minimize downtime.
• Oversee new and/or modified production equipment installation and setup.
• Analyze equipment PLC issues and develop corrective actions.
• Establish/follow-follow through on a preventative maintenance plan.
• Manage spare parts inventory and tools (includes writing purchasing orders & managing safety stock.)
• Develop engineering solutions for continuous improvement in areas regarding uptime, safety, and quality.
• report key maintenance activities/results/indicators on a daily or weekly bases.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level