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Controls Technician (Electrical Maintenance)

Macon, GA

Fulltime direct hire position.

ABCD shift, 12 hour schedule. currently nights only. 630p-7a

Relocation assistance available.

Excellent benefits

Job Description: Controls Technician (Electrical Maintenance)

We are looking for a Converting Controls Engineering Technician to join our Tissue plant in Anderson, SC. In this role, you will be responsible for troubleshooting and maintaining control systems and components for production and utility equipment to ensure optimal reliability, efficient line performance, and safe operations. Leveraging your advanced training and experience, you will provide training for other Controls Technicians, coordinate electrical preventative maintenance programs, and perform complex updates to PLC, HMI, and Servo Drive programming.

Primary responsibilities include: Controls Technician (Electrical Maintenance)

• 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.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• 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.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, stoop and operate power industrial trucks as well as work shifts.
• Minimum of a 2 year technical degree (Associates Degree in Mechatronics, IET, EET), and/or has 5+ years' experience in industrial controls maintenance environment.

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