Automation Technician-1

What a typical day looks like:

**Work Shift: 6:00am-2:30pm Monday-Friday**

• 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 are completed on a regularly scheduled basis.

• Understanding of 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.

• Assists engineers in developing and designing hardware and software required for all automation solutions per specifications.

• Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism.

• Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.

• Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.

• Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.

• Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.

• Analyzes and implements corrective action reports and process tracking mechanisms.

• Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.

• Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry.

• Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording and indicating instruments and equipment.

• Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Computer skills

• 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