Maintenance Automation Technician

SUMMARY

The Maintenance Automation Technician in a can filling manufacturing facility is a critical role responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of automated machinery used in the production and packaging of canned products. This position involves maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and optimizing the automation systems to minimize downtime and maximize production output. Works closely with the maintenance team, production personnel, and engineering staff to ensure the facility's automation systems are operating at peak performance.

• This position does not include a relocation package and does not offer immigration sponsorship.

• Read and understand electrical drawings, parts drawings, P&IDs, and ladder logic diagrams
• Troubleshoot non-functioning components including PLCs, VFDs, sensors, and control components
• Troubleshoot process issues in existing PLC code
• Perform routine diagnostic checks and inspections of automation equipment for defects or malfunctions
• Update P&IDs, electrical drawings and other engineering documentation as needed
• Identify, develop, and implement improvements to increase capacity, efficiency and/or quality for existing automated processes
• Improve existing preventative maintenance and commissioning programs
• Program PLCs and HMIs for updates and improvements to manufacturing line.
• Work with vendors to procure necessary materials and services.
• Monitor, measure, and report automated system performance.
• Understand and program plant automation, monitoring, and control systems.
• Assist in the design and development of new automation systems including both mechanical and electrical components
• Perform low voltage electrical wiring and plumbing for automated equipment
• Commission and calibrate instrumentation used within the process control system
• Communicate and work effectively with managers, maintenance technicians, process technicians, and other operators to solve problems, take direction, assign work, expedite repairs, etc.
• Perform all job duties efficiently, reliability and safely.
• Maintain clean work area through good housekeeping practices.
• Understand and explain complex process operations

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee must frequently stand, walk, bend and twist, reach with hands and arms, climb, stoop, kneel. Regular fingering, grasping, and feeling: requires repetitive movement with frequent use of hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls and hand-eye coordination.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus regularly.