Maintenance/Controls Technician

3D Corporate Solutions • Wilson, NC

70d

About The Position

The Maintenance Controls & IT Tech position involves providing on-shift support for programming, debugging, and problem-solving of highly automated equipment and control systems. This includes working with PLCs, HMIs, electrical circuits, and IT site management. The role requires maintaining, troubleshooting, and programming various automation systems, as well as providing technical support for plant IT systems. The technician will also be involved in continuous improvement projects and must adhere to safety and quality standards.

Requirements

• Associate degree, Technical Certification, Mechatronics, or Equivalent Work Experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency utilizing Google Suite applications: Sheets, Docs, Slides, Meets, Forms, Gmail, and Drive.
• Practical skills reading, understanding and modifying technical documentation (electrical schematic drawings, P&IDs, and equipment manuals).

Responsibilities

• Provides on-shift support which involves programming, debugging, and problem solving of highly automated equipment and controls systems including PLCs, HMIs, electrical circuits as well as IT site management.
• Maintains, troubleshoots, and programs Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) including Allen-Bradley, Siemens; Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and Allen-Bradley PanelView; VFD and servo drives; I/O; instrumentation.
• Must have knowledge of and capability to install and troubleshoot industrial automation networks (Ethernet/IP).
• Provides troubleshooting electrical circuits (3 phase 480 VAC, 120 VAC, 24 VAC and VDC control circuits).
• Must possess ability to analyze process flow to identify issues.
• Provides support for continuous improvement and capital projects and analyzing data to attain high equipment reliability and uptime.
• Provides on-shift technical support, leads troubleshooting of automated, controls and electrical systems by prioritizing internal and external customer needs to maximize productivity.
• Provide IT support for plant IT systems, capable of troubleshooting and working with corporate IT team and 3rd party vendor to maintain operation of company IT system.
• Research solutions to technical issues and implement solutions on a timely basis.
• Drives performance improvement using KPIs to optimize Controls and Automation Systems using continuous improvement, root cause analysis, data analysis, and failure mode and effects analysis.
• Follows all Environmental, Occupational Health, and Safety, Quality, Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), and Cleaning and 5S standards and policies.
• Must be able to read, understand and modify technical documentation (electrical schematic drawings, P&IDs, and equipment manuals).
• Documents and communicates software and hardware changes, on-shift activities, follow-up actions, and project status using visual, verbal, written, and digital communication.
• Assist in developing and delivering trainings pertaining to automated processes and systems as needed for operations, maintenance, co-workers, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees