Pay: $28.67 - $43.01 / hour
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Create and troubleshoot analog I/O (A-D, 4-20 ma, 0-5v., etc.)
- Perform component replacement and coordinate repairs with mechanical maintenance technicians as necessary
- Review and suggest performance and improvement ideas with Facilities Manager
- Maintain required program backups for critical equipment
- Conduct functional and operational tests to evaluate performance and reliability of critical equipment
- Diagnose and repair controls and control systems (electro-pneumatic and electro-hydraulic systems)
- Provide controls diagnostic training to plant electricians and mechanics
- Continually develop equipment and process expertise
- Maintain and train safe work practices
- Work with Operations associates to ensure proper equipment operation
- Work with Sanitation associates to ensure proper equipment care
- Perform work as assigned by Facilities Manager
Education and Experience
- Full understanding of HMI interface and programming
- Full understanding of mechanically controlled devices (modulating air operated control valves, servo operated valves and devices, VFD controlled motors, related PID functions, etc.)
- Strong understanding and diagnoses of mechanical machine operation to insure correct control diagnosis can be performed
- Ability to perform mechanical component replacement and coordinate repairs with mechanical maintenance technicians as necessary
- Three (3) to Five (5) years’ experience in industrial equipment controls
- Mechatronics training, courses, and experience preferred
- Meat Processing and Equipment knowledge preferred
- Strong, committed, and unquestioned record of safe work practices
Additional Responsibilities
- Conduct equipment audits to ensure excellent maintenance
- Support Facilities Department goals
- Support QA, R&D, and Process Systems departments, as needed
- Work with OEM vendors to continually improve equipment and process operations
