Senior PLC & Controls Technician | Automation & 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

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.