Day-Shift Controls Technician: PLCs, Panels & Robotics

Management Performance Associates; Villa Rica (GA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

OT pay 1.5x

401K with matching

Company benefits

Competitive hourly rate

Job summary

Management Performance Associates, in the southwest suburban Atlanta area, seeks a skilled Controls Technician for the day shift 7:00am–3:30pm, Monday–Friday. You will build PLC panels and program them, getting automated equipment up and running.

The role involves pneumatics, hydraulics, PLC troubleshooting, panel building, and collaboration with engineers and production to achieve output. Requires at least 6 years of related experience and eligibility to work in the USA without sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Desire at least 6 years of related experience.
• PLC programming with confidence in using context clues within the PLC program.
• Comfortable programming a machine process from scratch.
• Comfortable wiring a 9-lead motor and stress testing windings.
• Identify critical info from motors data plates for specing or programming components.
• Familiarity with sensors: PNP, NPN, loop-powered, dry contact.
• Analog control: 4-20mA and 0-10V signals.
• Ladder logic troubleshooting.
• Panel building.
• Electrical experience.
• Some robotic experience.
• Safety circuit integration.
• Must be authorized to work indefinitely in the USA without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Install air logic controls from prints or schematics (pneumatics).
• Troubleshoot hydraulic circuits and components.
• Troubleshoot PLC systems with computer.
• Install, program, or repair programmable controllers and robot controllers.
• Build and maintain fabrication equipment.
• Operate or supervise equipment operation.
• Analyze events within equipment for improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers and production teams to achieve output.
• Perform preventative maintenance and routine upgrades.
• Repair machine controls, systems, and tools as needed.
• Disassemble or re-assemble equipment to replace parts.
• Train others to install, use and service equipment.

Skills

PLC programming

Ladder logic troubleshooting

Panel building

Electrical experience

Robotic experience

Safety circuit integration

6+ years experience

Job description

Management Performance Associates, in the southwest suburban Atlanta area, seeks a skilled Controls Technician for the day shift 7:00am–3:30pm, Monday–Friday. You will build PLC panels and program them, getting automated equipment up and running.

The role involves pneumatics, hydraulics, PLC troubleshooting, panel building, and collaboration with engineers and production to achieve output. Requires at least 6 years of related experience and eligibility to work in the USA without sponsorship.