Process Control Technician

Process Control Technician Job

Armstrong World Industries is looking for a Process Control Technician in Newark, Ohio. This role offers a supportive culture that recognizes you as a key player in Armstrong's future. You will collaborate with leadership and colleagues across the company, and have the opportunity to make the most of your potential. Alongside a competitive remuneration package, you will receive a benefits package including medical, dental, prescription drug, life insurance, 401k match, long-term disability coverage, vacation and sick time, and many more.

Personal development opportunities are available to grow your career based on your strengths and interests.

Job responsibilities include observing all OSHA and company safety rules and using the proper safety equipment at all times. Notifying Supervisor of potentially dangerous electrical hazards and taking immediate corrective action. Demonstrating basic National Electrical Code understanding. Following Lock-Out/Tag-Out procedures. Troubleshooting machine breakdowns and malfunctions utilizing a working knowledge of programs and tools required to troubleshoot PLCs and HMI's including electrical schematics, meters, oscilloscopes, etc.

Training and assisting technicians to troubleshoot, repair, replace, and calibrate all electrical sensing devices including photoelectric, inductive, capacitive, magnetic, pressure, temperature, weight and position sensors, flow, and analytical instruments. Training and assisting technicians to troubleshoot, repair, replace, and commission all electrical control devices including AC drives, contractors, motors, breakers, solenoids power supplies, and indicator lights, and all DCS/PLC/HMI hardware including processors, discrete and analog I/O cards, power supplies, network adapters, distributed I/O, operator interfaces such as Rockwell Panel View V9-V12, PC based interfaces, and message displays such as Aveva (Wonderware) InTouch.

Making critical decisions to proactively avoid downtime, quality, scrap, and safety problems. Making complex program modifications in PLC's logic and HMI's programs to improve equipment performance. Coordinating the electrical preventative maintenance program by identifying items that need regular inspection and replacement, scheduling the tasks and task frequencies required, and following up to ensure the completion and effectiveness of each task.

Managing all PLC and HMI programs and changes as well as electrical documentation. Ensuring that they are all accurate, updated, available to the technicians and archived at regular intervals. Assisting Production, and Process & Project Engineers and directly assisting maintenance to meet daily priorities, coverage, and special projects. Providing extensive support during machine installations and upgrades including interfacing auxiliary equipment, identifying and correcting errors in programming and wiring and ensuring vendors and contractors are meeting our needs and expectations.

Education and experience requirements include an Associate Degree in electronics, computer science, or related field plus 5 years of industrial electrical experience or equivalent working experience (5-10 years). Personal Computer skills including specific controls programming software and basic e-mail, word processing, and spreadsheet applications. Excellent analytical skills including identifying machine problems and potential causes, devising and performing tests to identify the root cause of problems, analyzing data from multiple sources to identify trends and anomalies, identifying possible causes of future downtime, and taking preventative steps.

Excellent communication skills including providing effective training to other Controls Technicians, communicating procedures for preventive maintenance, communicating with production staff to identify machine problems and possible causes, and communicating with OEMs to resolve machine problems. Advanced knowledge of electrical theory and principles of operation, including solid knowledge of three phase, single phase, and DC power, application of NEC and standard wiring practices, utilizing meters and oscilloscopes to identify electrical problems, and reading and creating electrical schematics where needed.

Advanced knowledge of all PLC based hardware and software, including excellent PLC programming skills, assisting in DCS changes, good servo and HMI programming skills, interface between multiple controllers over various networking platforms. Ability to make quick and accurate electrical repairs and if the situation requires, program changes. Standard knowledge of product specifications, quality requirements, production goals, efficiency, and waste. Knowledge of product specifications and the processes that affect them.

Understands the impact of downtime and waste on production efficiency. Ability to work well in a team environment. Provides leadership to resolve problems within own work groups. This role will require…