Controls Technician - programming and building PLC panels

Talent Solutions Partners; Villa Rica (GA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Overtime paid at time and a half

Attractive benefits

Job summary

Talent Solutions Partners seeks a skilled Controls Technician in the southwest suburban Atlanta area. The role involves building PLC panels, programming and commissioning automated equipment, and supporting production with electrical and control systems.

Responsibilities include troubleshooting PLCs, wiring motors (9-lead), integrating sensors, and maintaining safety circuits. Candidates should have 6+ years’ experience, and be authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of related experience.
• PLC programming with confidence in using context clues within the PLC program.
• Comfortable programming a machine process from scratch.
• Wiring a 9-lead motor and stress testing windings.
• Ability to identify critical data from motor data plates for specing components (contactors, soft starters, VFDs).
• Familiarity with sensors: PNP, NPN, loop-powered, and dry contact.
• Analog control familiarity: 4-20mA and 0-10V.
• Ladder logic troubleshooting.
• Panel building and electrical experience.
• Some robotic experience and safety circuit integration.

Responsibilities

• Install and troubleshoot pneumatics and hydraulic circuits.
• Troubleshoot PLC systems using a computer.
• Install, program, or repair programmable controllers and robot controllers.
• Build and service control panels and integration of automated equipment.
• Support engineers and production in achieving target output.
• Perform preventative maintenance and upgrades.

Skills

PLC programming

Ladder logic troubleshooting

Panel building

Electrical experience

Robotic experience

Safety circuit integration

Motor wiring and testing

Tools

Soft starters

VFDs

Robot controllers

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.
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