Machine Controls Technician II

Colonial Group; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Colonial Group seeks a Machine Control Technician to perform start-up, qualification, and troubleshooting of machine tools in a manufacturing setting. You will interact with customer personnel, shop floor teams, and engineering to gather and share technical information and document actions.

The role may require domestic and international travel for service projects or machine installations, with emphasis on safe practices and precise diagnostics using CNC drives, servomotors, PLCs, and related

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in electrical, mechanical, electromechanical engineering or equivalent, OR 5 years machine tool troubleshooting experience.
• Strong blueprint/schematic reading for hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical systems in CNC tooling.
• High Voltage experience and safe practices knowledge.
• Ability to set up, troubleshoot, repair, and replace electrical subsystems including CNC drives, servomotors, PLCs, encoders.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, repair, and replace electrical subsystems in advanced machine tool systems.
• Communicate status of start up and troubleshooting clearly with customers and internal teams.
• Provide coaching and informal training to customer personnel on electrical maintenance of Gleason products.
• Interact with project management during field installations and service projects, coordinating tasks and timelines.

Skills

MS Excel/Outlook/Word

Concur expense reporting

SAP quality system tools

Education

Associate degree in electrical/mechanical/electromechanical engineering

5 years machine tool troubleshooting experience

Tools

Concur

SAP ITL/OSAR

Job description

The Machine Control Technician performs technical start up procedures and qualification of machine tools in a manufacturing environment including machine tool troubleshooting, repair, and installation of electro-mechanical systems, subsystems and components. You’ll be required to professionally interact with customer personnel, shop floor colleagues, supervisors, engineering teams and machine operators. Effectively communicate to support staff at Gleason including service team members, supervision, and engineering to gather and provide technical information. Professionally and thoroughly document qualification steps, findings, and/or repairs implemented. Actively communicate status and planned next actions to supervision, keeping them informed of qualification status.

You may be required to travel domestically and internationally deploying for service projects and/or machine installations if business needs arise.

Required Skills:

• Basic Computer skills including use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook. Ability to use Concur web-based online expense reporting system to reconcile expense bills in accordance with corporate expense policy. Ability to use SAP quality system tools (ITL’s and OSAR’s) to report machine issues during the commissioning of machine tools
• Detailed working knowledge of blueprint and schematic reading for hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical systems with complexity typical of CNC machine tool applications
• High Voltage experience with working knowledge of the safe practices when working with it.
• Ability to set up, trouble-shoot/debug, repair, and/or replace electrical systems and sub-systems with a basic understanding of circuitry, including components such as; CNC drives/amplifiers, servomotors, PLC’s, I/O configurations, glass scales, rotary encoders, safety switches, and similar electrical/electro-mechanical components employed in advanced machine tool systems.

Properly utilize test equipment and devices (electronic indicators, gages, voltmeters etc.) to measure machine conditions in order to set up and/or identify root cause of machine issues.

Required Education:

• Associates Degree (A.S) in electrical, mechanical, electromechanical engineering/tech or equivalent OR 5 years experience in machine tool troubleshooting, repair and/or maintenance function

Level I Functions/Skills:

• Trouble-shoot, repair, and replace electrical systems and sub-systems with a sound understanding of complex circuitry including components such as; CNC drives/amplifiers, servomotors, PLC’s, glass scales, rotary encoders, safety switches, and similar electrical/electro-mechanical components employed in advanced machine tool systems.
• Communicate, both verbally and in written format(s), the status of machine start up and troubleshooting, repair, and operation in a professional manner. Manage interactions, using a fact-based communication style including detail of accomplished tasks, results, next steps, and associated timelines for next activities.
• Provide coaching and informal training to customer personnel regarding the efficient and effective use and electrical maintenance of Gleason products.

Level II Functions/Skills:

• Full mastery of all Job Specific Functions/skills of Level I.
• Independently analyze machine malfunctions and resolve problems in machine tool system operation/performance.
• Proficient in troubleshooting, testing, tuning, and adjusting machine tool elements to obtain optimum operating performance with Fanuc and Siemens-based control systems.
• Interact with Gleason internal project management during field installation/service projects acting with support to Field Service Engineer(s). Identify and coordinate work tasks, associated inputs and outputs, assign and perform work tasks according to project schedule requirements and develop countermeasures for instances of non-performance according to project milestones.
• Effectively provide formal classroom and shop floor customer Electrical Maintenance training.
• Effectively diagnose Gleason machine tool problems remotely utilizing Gleason Connect technology
• Provide assistance and guidance/mentoring to Level I Machine Control Technicians. 4127 Runoff - Technician Mach Control I