Controls Engineering Technician - Macon, United States - First Quality Enterprises, Inc

First Quality Enterprises, Inc

Verified Company

Macon, United States

1 week ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

First Quality was founded in 1989 and, in nearly three decades, has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials and thermoformed plastics), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.

Our core business philosophy is built on a proud culture driven by safety and quality, respect, humility, integrity, customer focus, and teamwork.

With leading edge manufacturing technologies and processes and visionary leadership, First Quality is positioned to continue significant growth in the coming years.

We are looking for an experienced
Controls Engineering Technician for our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located in
Macon, GA.

This position is responsible for troubleshooting and maintaining controls components and systems for production and associated utility equipment to insure highest reliability, proper line performance, and safe operation. Using advanced training, skills, and experience, this role provides training for other Controls Technicians, coordinates electrical PM programs, and makes complex changes in PLC, HMI, Servo Drive Programming, and AC and DC Drives.

Principal Accountabilities/ Responsibilities:

Observes all OSHA and company safety rules and always uses the proper safety equipment. Notifies Supervisor of potentially dangerous electrical hazards and takes immediate corrective action. Demonstrates basic National Electrical Code understanding. Follows Lock-Out /Tag-Out procedures.
Troubleshoots machine breakdowns and malfunctions utilizing a working knowledge of programs and tools required to troubleshoot PLC's, DCS's, HMI's and servo systems including electrical schematics, meters, oscilloscopes, etc.
Trains and assists technicians to troubleshoot, repair, replace and calibrate all electrical sensing devices including photoelectric, inductive, capacitive, magnetic, pressure, temperature, weight and position sensors, flow, and analytical instruments.
Trains and assists technicians to troubleshoot, repair, replace and commission a) all electrical control devices including: AC drives, DC drives, Servo Controllers, contactors, motors, breakers, solenoids power supplies and indicator lights, and b) all DCS/PLC/HMI hardware including: 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, makes critical decisions to proactively avoid downtime, quality, scrap, and safety problems.
Makes complex program modifications in PLC's logic, HMI's programs, and servo controller logic to improve equipment performance. Alsoworks with the Controls Engineers to implement changes on DCS systems. This may also require significant changes to the control equipment and wiring on the machines.
Coordinates the electrical preventative maintenance program by identifying items that need regular inspection and replacement, scheduling the tasks and task frequencies required, and following up to ensure the completion and effectiveness of each task.
Manages all PLC, Servo and HMI programs and changes as well as electrical documentation. Ensures that they are all accurate, updated, available to the technicians and archived at regular intervals. Works with Controls Engineers to do the same on DCS systems.
Assists Production, Maintenance, and Process & Project Engineers to meet daily priorities, coverage, and special projects.
Provides extensive support during machine installations and upgrades including interfacing auxiliary equipment, identifying and correcting errors in programming and wiring and ensuring vendors and contractors are meeting our needs and expectations. Support to include offcampus remote locations through both remote access and travel to other locations.

Education and experience requirements:

Associates Degree in electronics, computer science or related field plus 5 years industrial electrical experience. Or a bachelor's degree in electronics or computer science with at least 3 years industrial experience.
Has excellent analytical skills, including Identifying machine problems and potential causes, devising, and performing tests to identify the root cause of problems, analyzing data from multiple sources to identify trends and anomalies, identifying possible causes of future downtime, and taking preventative steps, and using strong mathematic