Controls Technician - programming and building PLC panels

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc.; Villa Rica (GA); Vor Ort; USD 39.000 - 50.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

OT pay at time and a half

401K with company matching

Major company benefits

Zusammenfassung

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc. is seeking a skilled Controls Technician for a day shift in the southwest suburban Atlanta area.

The role focuses on designing cells, integrating controls, and installing automated equipment. You will build and program PLC panels and get systems up and running, while assisting in configuring, testing, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting controls and automated production systems.

Qualifikationen

• 6+ years of related experience in controls and automation.
• PLC programming with context-based troubleshooting.
• Ability to program a machine process from scratch.
• Wiring a 9-lead motor and stress testing windings.
• Identify motor data plate specs for components (contactor, soft starter, VFD).
• Familiarity with sensors: PNP, NPN, loop-powered, and dry contact.
• Analog controls: 4-20mA and 0-10V signals.
• Ladder logic troubleshooting.
• Panel building and electrical experience.
• Some robotic experience.
• Safety circuit integration.
• Must be authorized to work indefinitely in the USA without sponsorship.

Aufgaben

• Pneumatics: Install air logic controls from prints or schematics.
• Hydraulic: Troubleshoot circuits with valves, accumulators, cylinders, and flow controls.
• Troubleshoot PLC systems using computer.
• Install/repair programmable controllers and robot controllers.
• Build and maintain control panels for automated equipment.
• Operate or oversee equipment operation.
• Analyze events within equipment for improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers and production to meet output goals.
• Conduct preventative maintenance and routine upgrades.
• Repair and replace defective machine controls and tools.
• Disassemble/assemble equipment to service parts.
• Train others to install, use, and service equipment.

Kenntnisse

PLC programming

Motor wiring

Sensors (PNP/NPN/loop-powered/dry)

Analog control (4-20mA/0-10V)

Ladder logic troubleshooting

Panel building

Electrical experience

Robotics experience

Safety circuit integration

Troubleshooting PLC systems

Train others

Authorization to work without visa

Tools

Siemens/S7 PLC

Jobbeschreibung

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.
6. Operating the equipment or overseeing the operation of equipment.
7. Analyzing and categorizing events within the equipment.
8. Working closely with engineers and production team to help achieve a desired output.
9. Conducting preventative maintenance, such as routine upgrades and inspections.
10. Repairing machine controls, systems, and tools as needed.
11. Disassembling (or re-assembling) equipment to repair or replace defective parts.
12. 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