Controls & Automation Technician

If you're the person people call when a production problem goes beyond the obvious fix, this role puts that expertise to work.

Clemens Food Group is looking for an experienced Controls & Automation Technician to help design, troubleshoot, commission, and continuously improve the automation systems behind our manufacturing operations.

This isn't a position focused solely on keeping existing equipment running. You'll work across PLCs, HMIs, drives, servo systems, motion control, robotics, SCADA, electrical controls, and data acquisition
, while partnering closely with Maintenance, Production, Engineering, Operations, vendors, and contractors.

Your work has a clear purpose:
reduce downtime, improve reliability, remove production bottlenecks, and make our automated systems perform better.

When equipment fails or an automation system isn't performing as expected, production needs more than a temporary fix.

You’ll help identify the root cause.

You’ll investigate production errors, equipment failures, and controls issues; test and debug systems; and make improvements designed to prevent problems from recurring.

You’ll also support new and modified automation systems through startup, commissioning, and testing—giving you the opportunity to influence equipment performance from implementation through ongoing operation.

Success in this role means helping create safer, more reliable, more efficient manufacturing processes with less unplanned downtime.

You’ll design, program, test, troubleshoot, and improve PLC and HMI systems supporting manufacturing operations. You’ll work with DC drives, VFDs, servo systems, motion-controlled equipment, robotics, SCADA, and data-acquisition systems.

You’ll also take on the electrical side of automation: developing layouts, selecting components, calculating electrical power requirements, and maintaining electrical drawings and control schematics.

• Support equipment startup, commissioning, and system testing.
• Perform root-cause analysis on difficult equipment and production failures.
• Integrate robotics and automation technology into manufacturing processes.
• Monitor automation-system integrity, availability, performance, and operability.
• Maintain PLC/HMI/drive program backups, version control, and system records.
• Develop and execute validation protocols and collect test evidence.
• Create and improve automation SOPs and lifecycle documentation.
• Apply system changes, patches, and upgrades through the Change Control process.
• Train Maintenance and Production employees on operation, troubleshooting, and best practices.
• Recommend improvements that increase reliability, improve safety, reduce downtime, and support production goals.

You won't be limited to one technology. The role crosses PLC/HMI programming, electrical design, motion control, drives, robotics, SCADA, and manufacturing data systems.

You’ll solve meaningful technical problems. Some days will involve planned automation work; others will require digging into a difficult equipment failure where the root cause isn't immediately obvious.

You’ll see the impact of your work. The systems you're improving directly influence equipment reliability, production efficiency, bottlenecks, and downtime.

You’ll be a technical resource for others. This role supports higher-level technical challenges and helps build automation capability within the Maintenance and Production teams.

We're looking for someone with 10+ years of related experience working with automation systems, controls, and computerized production equipment.