Maintenance Control Engineer

extcsskbatteryam; Georgia; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

extcsskbatteryam seeks a highly analytical controls engineer to improve processes and maintain equipment in a battery manufacturing setting. The role requires collaboration across departments and vendors to drive plant efficiency, with potential on-call support due to 24/7 operations.

The successful candidate will troubleshoot PLC/HMI systems, lead preventative maintenance, and guide upgrades to production equipment while ensuring safety and quality standards are met.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering (mechanical, electrical or related).
• 5+ years of experience with PLCs and HMIs in a high-volume manufacturing maintenance environment.
• Battery production experience is beneficial.
• Experience with installation and setup of new battery production equipment.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and devise effective solutions for equipment challenges, including emergency repairs to minimize downtime.
• Oversee installation and setup of new/modified production equipment.
• Analyze PLC/HMI issues and develop corrective actions.
• Establish and follow preventative maintenance plans.
• Manage spare parts inventory and tools, including purchase orders and safety stock.
• Develop engineering solutions for uptime, safety and quality improvements.
• Report maintenance activities and indicators daily or weekly.

Job description

Job Purpose

The battery manufacturing controls engineer is responsible for ensuring that plants create the best products possible in the most efficient manner. They are highly analytical and use these skills to examine and improve processes in order to increase productivity. Simultaneously, they are also responsible for ensuring that all equipment is properly maintained. The controls engineer must also be able to work with other departments and external parties to create and implement processes to increase the plant's efficiency. This position will involve interacting with other departments and vendors to solve complex and/or urgent problems by identifying and evaluating alternatives or by providing needed information and advice.

Candidate should be a motivated problem-solver that can provide creative solutions to given queries, taking effectiveness and quality into concern based on technological expertise and best practices. As the facility operates 24/7, this position may require on-call support in various circumstances.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Working cooperative team environment alongside other maintenance team members on emergency repairs, implementing corrective actions to achieve production milestones.
• Troubleshoot and devise effective solutions to address challenges in equipment including emergency repairs to production equipment to minimize downtime.
• Oversee new and/or modified production equipment installation and setup.
• Analyze equipment PLC issues and develop corrective actions.
• Establish/follow-follow through on a preventative maintenance plan.
• Manage spare parts inventory and tools (includes writing purchasing orders & managing safety stock.)
• Develop engineering solutions for continuous improvement in areas regarding uptime, safety, and quality.
• report key maintenance activities/results/indicators on a daily or weekly bases.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to apply engineering concepts to each essential task to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment as defined by company standards. The requirements listed below are representatives of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

1. Education
   • Bachelors degree or above in engineering (mechanical, electrical or similar).
2. Experience
   • 5+ years of experience with PLC's and HMI's in a high-volume manufacturing maintenance environment.
   • Battery Maintenance experience appreciated (similar equipment experiences to each battery manufacturing process like electrode, assembly, formation preferred.)
   • Experience with installation and setup of new battery production equipment (preferred)
3. Qualifications/Certifications/Licenses
   • Technical proficiency with PLCs (MELSEC Q Series, R Series) and HMIs (GOT2000, GX woks 2 &3, GT Designs.)
   • Technical proficiency in the following software applications:
     • Invertor, VFS (Mitsubishi, SIEMENS-_SIMANTIC, Parker, Yaskawa, LS.)
     • Safety PLC (Pilz, Omron)
     • Servo control (Mitsubishi, MOOG)
     • Control Network (CC-Link, RS-485, Ethernet.)
4. Language skills
   • Working level of English (Verbal, written, etc.)
5. Computer skills
   • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

Demands and Environment

• Physical and Mental Demands
  • In the office: adhere to company dress code policy.
  • On production site: Must wear appropriate PPE including but not limited to safety shoes, safety helmet (hard hat), safety glasses/safety goggles.)
  • Regularly required to talk and hear.
  • Frequently required to sit, stand, bend at the knees and waist, and walk.
  • Required to use hands to type, handle objects and paperwork.
  • Required to reach and hold on to items at chest level or reach above the shoulder.
  • May be required to lift and carry objects weighing up to 50lbs.
  • Required to use close vision and be able to focus -color vision required.
• Work environment
  • Typical Office Environment
  • Production Construction Site.