Maintenance Electrician 3rd Shift

Job Description

This job is posted for Dorada Foods. The direct contact is Rony Martinez at

The primary role of the Engineering Electrician is to provide leadership within the engineering department in the areas of electrical, mechanical, and control systems design and documentation. The successful Engineering Electrician will also recommend and implement process improvements, assist engineering management in project development, planning, and installation, and be a resource to all floor engineers and operations personnel.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Extensive hands‑on PLC programming experience including new design and installation startups.
• Must thoroughly understand and have experience interfacing PLC’s with: AC/DC and servo drives, instrumentation, sensors, bar code readers, and HMI.
• Experience programming and replacing various operator interfaces including:
  Panel View, Panel View+, and Red Lion.
• Thorough understanding of drive parameters and how to apply them on the plant floor:
  Entering basic motor nameplate data, 2-wire/3-wire control, dynamic braking, DC Hold, drive tuning, scaling analog inputs and outputs.
• Ability to interpret existing drive wiring and parameters from one brand and retrofit with another.
• Ability to develop HMI applications beyond simple buttons and data entry boxes. Examples of this include but are not limited to: utilizing parameter files and a single screen to operate duplicate devices, macro’s, VBA, and various proprietary scripting.
• Extensive background with Controls networking:
  Device Net, Ethernet/IP, Serial-over-Ethernet, Hart, DH+, RS232, DH485.
• Ability to troubleshoot Multi-PLC messaging between different classes of PLC’s: SLC 5/03-4-5, PLC5/40, Contro Logix.
• Through knowledge of communications software: RSlinx Classic, RSlinx Enterprise, RSNetWorx products, and OPC servers.
• Good background with various Microsoft OS: XP,  Server, Win 7, and Virtual server environments.
• Basic understanding of DCOM and computer security.
• Ability to provide network troubleshooting using: BOOTP, ARP, PING, ROUTE, IPCONFIG, DHCP, and SNMP.
• Good understanding of Ethernet managed switches in a controls environment and basic understanding of routers.
• Ability to support SCADA data collection systems used to collect plant floor information.
• Ability to write simple SQL queries against a database within Excel.
• Fanuc Robot teach pendant programming, unit load programming, ability to interface Fanuc robots with PLC.
• Working knowledge of implementing and tuning PID loops to control industrial processes.
• Must be able to work well with all levels of personnel from equipment operators to upper management, both individually and in a team environment.
• This position requires an organized individual, who is self‑motivated and can work independently.