Equipment Automation Technician - Night shift

About the role

Work Shift: 6:00 PM – 6:00 AM, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, every other Saturday (20% shift differential).

Responsibilities

• Maintain continuous system operation by adjusting, repairing, replacing, or modifying automation/robotic system components.
• Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems and components and return to serviceability.
• Ensure preventative maintenance of robotic and process support equipment is completed on a regularly scheduled basis.
• Understand and work with PLCs.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical diagrams, including complex automated system drawings.
• Collaborate with the automation team in the qualification process of automated systems.
• Assist engineers in developing and designing hardware and software required for all automation solutions per specifications.
• Through troubleshooting, identify machine malfunctions and isolate the failure mechanism.
• Repair the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
• Perform preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
• Perform calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
• Assist process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
• Analyze and implement corrective action reports and process tracking mechanisms.
• Disassemble instruments and equipment and inspect components for defects.
• Align, repair, replace, and balance component parts and circuitry.
• Assist engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair, and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording, and indicating instruments and equipment.
• Perform both software and hardware maintenance at the highest level.

Requirements

• Experience with material handling, automation, and/or robotics equipment.
• Electronic Assembly: schematics, PCB loading, mechanical assembly.
• Cables: crimping, harness assembly, connector/wire soldering, cable prepping.
• Testing: oscilloscope, cable & harness testing, troubleshooting, component testing, logic analyzer.
• Machine Operations: automatic component insertion equipment, surface mount insertion equipment, wave soldering.
• Mechanical & Electrical Tools: power air guns, taps & dies, alignment tools, measuring tools.