Controls Technician

Company: Phillips Staffing ( Learn More )

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General Information
US-SC-Anderson
$25.00 /Hour
2 Year Degree
Full-Time
3 to 10 years
None
False
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Job Description Phillips, a well-respected executive search firm focused on permanent placements, is currently recruiting for a Controls Technician for one of our clients in the Upstate, SC area.  Compensation is $25/hour plus excellent benefits. Our client is a well-established state of the art manufacturing company that is looking to significantly increase the size of their business over the next few years.

The Controls Technician will be responsible troubleshooting and maintaining controls components and systems for production and associated utility equipment to ensure highest reliability, proper line performance, and safe operation and coordinating electrical PM programs, and making complex changes in PLC, HMI, and Servo Drive Programming.

Primary responsibilities include:

  • Observing all OSHA and company safety rules and using the proper safety equipment at all times.  Notifying Supervisor of potentially dangerous electrical hazards and taking immediate corrective action.  Demonstrating basic National Electrical Code understanding.
  • Troubleshooting machine breakdowns and malfunctions utilizing working knowledge of programs and tools required to troubleshoot PLC’s, DCS’s, HMI’s and servo systems including electrical schematics, meters, oscilloscopes, etc.
  • Training and assisting technicians to troubleshoot, repair, replace and calibrate all electrical sensing devices (photoelectric, inductive, capacitive, magnetic, pressure, temperature, weight and position sensors), all electrical control devices (AC drives, DC drives, Servo Controllers, contactors, motors, breakers, solenoids power supplies and indicator lights) and all DCS/PLC/HMI hardware (processors, discrete and analog I/O cards, power supplies, network adapters, distributed I/O, operator interfaces such as Panelview, PC based interfaces), and message displays such as Rsview.
  • Based on extensive experience of the machine processes and controls systems, making critical decisions to proactively avoid downtime, quality, scrap, and safety problems.
  • Making complex program modifications in PLC’s logic, HMI’s programs and servo controller logic to improve equipment performance.  Working also with Controls Engineers to implement changes on DCS system.  Both of these may also require significant changes to the control equipment and wiring on the machines.

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    Job Requirements

    The ideal candidate for the Controls Technician Opportunity will possess the following skills:

          - Excellent communication and analytical skills.

          - Advanced knowledge of electrical theory and principles of operation, PLC (and DCS if required)  based hardware and software.

          - Ability to make quick and accurate electrical repairs and program changes.

       EDUCATION:

     Associates Degree in electronics, computer science or related field plus 5 years industrial electrical experience, or a Bachelors degree in electronics or computer science with at least 3 years industrial experience preferred.

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