Controls Technician - programming and building PLC panels

Top Echelon Software, LLC; Villa Rica (GA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with matching

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Top Echelon Software, LLC is seeking a skilled Controls Technician for the day shift in the southwest suburban Atlanta area. The role involves designing cells, integrating controls, and installing automated equipment.

You will build and program PLC panels, get systems running, and configure, test, and service controls and related automation. Responsibilities include pneumatic and hydraulic troubleshooting, PLC and robot controller work, and collaboration with engineers and production teams to

Qualifications

• 6+ years of related experience in controls with manufacturing focus.
• PLC programming and context clues within PLC code.
• Experience programming machine processes from scratch.
• Wiring a 9-lead motor and stress-testing windings.
• Reading motors data plates for specing components and control parts.
• Familiar with sensors: PNP, NPN, loop-powered, and dry contact.
• Analog control signals: 4-20mA and 0-10V.
• Ladder logic troubleshooting and panel building.
• Safety circuit integration and electrical experience.
• Some robotics experience; authorization to work in USA without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Install, wire, test, and program PLCs for automated equipment.
• Troubleshoot PLC systems and electrical/hydraulic/pneumatic circuits.
• Build and install control panels and robot controllers.
• Maintain and service automated production equipment.
• Collaborate with engineers and production to meet outputs.
• Train others to install, operate, and service equipment.

Skills

PLC programming

Ladder logic

Panel building

Electrical troubleshooting

Robotics experience

Sensor wiring

VFDs/soft starters

Motor wiring

Safety circuits

Industrial automation

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:

• Pneumatics: Install air logic controls from prints or schematics.
• Hydraulic: Troubleshoot hydraulic circuits containing the following components, check valves, accumulators, cylinders, flow controls, directional control valves, pressure control valves.
• Troubleshoot PLC systems using computer.
• Install, program, or repair programmable controllers, and robot controllers.
• 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 with confidence in using context clues within the PLC program
• comfortable with programming a machine process from scratch
• comfortable with wiring a 9-lead motor, and stress testing the motor's windings
• able to identify critical info. from a motors data plate and use the info for specing-out or programming new control components such as contactors, soft starters, and VFDs
• familiarity with sensors: PNP, NPN, loop-powered, and dry contact
• analog control familiarity: signal ranges of 4-20mA and 0-10 volts
• ladder logic troubleshooting
• panel building
• electrical experience
• some robotic experience
• safety circuit integration
• must be authorized to work indefinitely in the USA without sponsorship