Maintenance VI – Senior PLC Controls Technician - Mt. Airy NC

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and maintain equipment relating to electrical, PLC and electro-mechanical issues.
• Perform electrical, PLC, and HMI maintenance. Manage Work Orders, track progress, and perform any necessary follow-up.
• Recommend improvements of techniques and procedures to analyze, troubleshoot, build up, maintain, and repair complex equipment.
• Diagnose electrical and control problems, and determine how best to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary.
• Utilize AutoCAD to review and develop electrical and control drawings.
• Create and modify programming in various plant automation systems to improve control strategy, increase capacity, and other enhancements as needed.
• Assist in developing and continuously improving the preventive maintenance program.
• Manage the site's spare parts inventory, including weekly monitoring of inventory. Order supplies, equipment, and materials for projects, including determining appropriate supplies and materials, and identifying vendors; may provide input into budget requests.
• Respond to complaints and questions regarding maintenance projects
• Communicate and liaise directly with the operations departments to coordinate maintenance and repair work, and ensure a quick turnaround for smooth functioning of facilities. Maintain regular interaction with Facility manager, Operations Supervisors, and Operations Managers.
• Participate in training and continuous learning opportunities; meet training and/or certification requirements of the job, department, product or area as designated/defined in work instructions and quality standards.
• Maintain ongoing one-on-one communication with team members.
• Perform job related administrative tasks such as the completion of daily shift/maintenance records, and the maintenance of time/attendance

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school in Industrial Electrical, Electrical Technology, or similar field; or completion of a four-year apprenticeship program in electrical/electronic technology, mechanical technology, or manufacturing technology; or combination of partial completion of education and a minimum of 7 years’ of Industrial Electrician or Maintenance Technician experience, of which at least 2 years’ experience in PLC troubleshooting.
• Experience in Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC's - Simatic Step 7, RSLogix 5000, RSLogix 500, RSLinx, etc. is highly preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Perform the four operations with like common and decimal fractions. Perform arithmetic operations involving all American monetary units.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Proficiency in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
• PLC Technician Certificate and PLC Technician Certificate II.
• Must have a good working knowledge to include, but not limited to, the trouble shooting and repair of VFDs, Motor/Wiring configurations, PLCs, Computers, Electrical Schematics, Control Circuits, and Preventive / Predictive maintenance.
• 2-5 years’ experience in maintaining industrial machines
• 2-5 years in electronics and machine electrical systems
• Experience developing PM's preferred
• Experience diagnosing proprietary machinery preferred
• Experience with starting a new manufacturing facility/production line or unit is preferred