Electrical Controls Technician

Responsibilities

• Create and sustain zero injury in workplace, minimize Pb blood level exposure levels
• Coordinate and implement maintenance training programs related to electrical and control systems
• Identify best practices that ultimately reduce equipment downtime, i.e. reduce recurring equipment issues, reduced setup, quick-change modules, and equipment efficiency
• Identify opportunities that ultimately reduce maintenance costs
• Seeks out unsolicited automation and control projects and improvements that contribute to the plant performance
• Support new installations, improvements, and optimization projects in all areas of the plant
• Provide programming, debug, and troubleshooting support for all factory automation systems, plc’s, hmi’s, vfd’s, robots, PID loop tuning, motor control, electrical power distribution, etc
• Develop and implement programming modifications to the factory automation systems that will facilitate plant performance standards and simplify operator intervention
• Provide hardware and software support to the plant automation network
• Maintain current program versions for all plant automation equipment on the central controls computer drive, or document management system
• Develop, initiate, and support plans to optimize and simplify existing plant automation and control systems
• Develop, initiate, and support plans to modernize existing obsolete plant control systems
• Provide operational support and implement modifications to items, such as, plant robot, machine vision, machine automations, data collection
• Proficient in data collection to SQL server platform, provide platform to display required information on specified platforms
• Involved in plant shutdown activities relating to skills and tasks assigned
• Responsible for continuous improvement in all areas of Maintenance department
• Comply with current Quality Systems requirements
• Understand marketplace and update systems as needed and capable to work effectively with plant engineering and all related departments
• Follow Toyota Production Systems (TPS) objectives and guidelines, to include support of Kaizen events
• Follow Lean Manufacturing procedures
• Perform other work as assigned by the supervisor or management personnel

Qualifications

• Two-year degree from vocational school in industrial electronics and controls or 2 years of industrial electrical and controls experience including experience with Allen Bradley Programmed Logic Control related products and ladder diagram logic preferred
• Must possess above average troubleshooting skills to sustain plant production