Controls Technician
Listed on 2026-01-12
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineer, Automation Engineering, Maintenance Technician / Mechanic
Are you ready to make an impact? ZF is looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a Future Starter, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of mobility. Join us and be part of something extraordinary!
Country/Region: US
Location:
Charleston, SC, US, 29418
Req | North Charleston, SC, United States
WABCO Compressor Manufacturing Co
The controls team is responsible for providing technical analysis and expertise in the optimized maintenance of shop floor PC’s/PLC’s related hardware, software, and applications, to ensure the reliability and availability of manufacturing equipment. They serve as an internal consultant to the Maintenance Department, across all areas for maintaining production equipment during start-ups, breakdowns, and continuous improvement activities on electrical/controls process issues.
What you can look forward to as a Controls Technician- Identify deficiencies in equipment from operation and original design to force equipment failure; serve as an internal consultant for issues related to maintenance controls in troubleshooting.
- Develop solutions and ensure the completion of long‑term elimination of controls deficiencies, improve equipment performance, and overall equipment reliability.
- Modify programming improvements and controls systems involving PLC’s and PC’s
- Provide technical guidance and expertise in the modification of hardware, software, electrical and power transmission control systems to improve safety, reliability, throughput, costs of ownership and operational readiness of manufacturing equipment.
- Work with customer and/or internal manufacturing engineering teams on improvements to manufacturing equipment controls.
- Respond to the needs and questions of shop floor users concerning their access and use of shop floor PLC applications, applications issues, and training needs.
- Communicate and provides technical clarification of issues and solutions to both maintenance and non‑maintenance personnel regarding manufacturing equipment controls.
- High school diploma (Associate or Technical degree preferred)
- 2+ years of related experience
- Experience in machining components.
- Ability to use standard shop measurement tools.
- Familiarity with engineering assembly and component drawings.
- Experiencetroubleshootingand diagnosing electrical problems, as well as read and interpret blueprints and schematics.
- Experience in control system design and installation utilizing PLC’s ladder logic, variable frequency drives and servo control systems.
- Working knowledge of vision systems.
- Experience with supporting plant floor systems and applications.
Preferred Experience
- Working knowledge of DC torque fastening systems
- Experience with Robotics technology and programming of Universal Robots
- Experience with developing technical processes and solutions with TPM (total productive maintenance) environment
- Experience Sinumerik 840D (NC Programming)
- Experience with Vision System (Cognex, Keyence)
Be part of our ZF team as Controls Technician and apply now!
Contact
Charnequa Butts
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