Controls Technician - programming and building PLC panels

MDS Staffing; Villa Rica (GA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with matching

Great benefits package

Job summary

MDS Staffing is seeking a Controls Technician in the southwest suburban Atlanta area. The role offers a day shift (7:00am - 3:30pm, Monday to Friday) and focuses on assembling, programming, and commissioning automated equipment.

You will work on pneumatic, hydraulic, PLC, and robot controls, with strong collaboration with engineers and production teams to ensure reliable operation and maintenance of production lines.

Qualifications

• Desire at least 6 years of related experience or more.
• PLC programming and ladder logic troubleshooting skills.
• Experience building panels and electrical system work.

Responsibilities

• Install air logic controls from prints or schematics for pneumatics.
• Troubleshoot hydraulic circuits and components such as check valves and valves.
• Troubleshoot PLC systems using a computer.
• Install, program, or repair programmable controllers and robot controllers.
• Use fabrication equipment to complete maintenance tasks.
• Operate or oversee equipment; analyze events within equipment.
• Collaborate with engineers and production to achieve output; perform preventative maintenance; repair controls; disassemble/reassemble as needed; train others.

Skills

PLC programming

Ladder logic troubleshooting

Panel building

Electrical experience

Robotic experience

Safety circuit integration

6+ years experience

Job description

Major and established company with a huge majority market share in what they manufacture and a good working culture has an opportunity on the day shift which is 7:00am - 3:30pm Monday thru Friday for a Controls Technician in the southwest suburban Atlanta area. The Controls Technician will participate in cell design, along with the integration of controls and installation of automated equipment. Will build PLC panels and then program them as well as get them up and running. The technician is responsible for assisting in configuring, testing, operating, maintaining, servicing, and troubleshooting controls, as well as other automated systems used in production. Some of the responsibilities of the role detailed below:

1. Pneumatics: Install air logic controls from prints or schematics.

2. Hydraulic: Troubleshoot hydraulic circuits containing the following components, check valves, accumulators, cylinders, flow controls, directional control valves, pressure control valves.

3. Troubleshoot PLC systems using computer.

4. Install, program, or repair programmable controllers, and robot controllers.

5. Use knowledge of all fabrication equipment to complete maintenance tasks.

1. Operating the equipment or overseeing the operation of equipment.
2. Analyzing and categorizing events within the equipment.
3. Working closely with engineers and production team to help achieve a desired output.
4. Conducting preventative maintenance, such as routine upgrades and inspections.
5. Repairing machine controls, systems, and tools as needed.
6. Disassembling (or re-assembling) equipment to repair or replace defective parts.
7. Training others to install, use, and service equipment.

The location is southwest suburban Atlanta, GA. There is an attractive hourly rate. OT is paid at time and 1/2. There are major company benefits and an attractive 401K with matching.

Needed experience:

• desire at least 6 years of related experience
• PLC programming
• ladder logic troubleshooting
• panel building
• electrical experience
• some robotic experience
• safety circuit integration
• must be authorized to work indefinitely in the USA without sponsorship