Automation Technician

Relocation Assistance provided if needed

Summary of Position

A Maintenance Technician is responsible for performing facility and process equipment preventative maintenance, attending to equipment downtime as required, and completing various projects related to maintenance and engineering requests. This position requires 4-5 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment or 2 years of maintenance experience with a recognized trade certification.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide recommendations to improve preventative/predictive maintenance tasks to optimize equipment availability.
• Adhere to work orders and utilize CMMS system for data entry.
• Perform unplanned and planned (preventative and predictive) maintenance on production and facility equipment as required, utilizing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to record work completed.
• Complete small electrical and/or mechanical projects as directed by Team Lead or Supervisor.
• Diagnose basic to medium complex electrical systems mechanical components, pneumatic components, and controls to identify hazards, defects, and need for adjustments, repairs, or programming.
• Maintain and perform repairs on equipment to restore them to proper, safe, and optimal working conditions.
• Support installation, set up, modification, and relocation of equipment to accommodate or improve production requirements.
• Read electrical and electronic schematics/diagrams, and basic hydraulic and pneumatic diagrams.
• Test low voltage electrical and electronic equipment and components for continuity, current, voltage, and resistance.
• Maintain an organized workplace that complies with housekeeping requirements.
• If certified, wire new control panels according to supplied drawing and verbal instructions while adhering to Hydro Codes and other applicable standards and regulations.
• If certified, make trade calculations for load requirements and select appropriate sizes/grades of components in accordance with current electrical code.

Skills

• Ability to read wiring diagrams, electrical/mechanical/pneumatic/hydraulic schematics, and ladder/function block logic.
• Working knowledge of industrial PCs and PLCs (Siemens Step 7, Beckhoff Twin Cat, etc.) and electric circuitry consisting of contractors, relays, main voltage/control voltage, limit switches and proximity sensors
• Knowledge of equipment set up, functions, operating procedures, and preventative maintenance techniques.
• Ability to trouble shoot on electrical and mechanical equipment, PLC systems, Robots, AC & DC drives, servo drives, motion controls, safety sensors, and relays.

Education and/or Experience

• 4-5 years of maintenance experience or 2 years of experience with one of the following: