Controls & Automation Specialist

2 weeks ago


Sanford, United States Tom's of Maine Full time

No Relocation Assistance Offered
160076 - Sanford, Maine, United States

**Who We Are**
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team

**The Controls & Automation Specialist for the Sanford Manufacturing facility is responsible for site support and maintenance of the electrical, controls and plant floor systems. Works cross-functionally include strong partnerships with manufacturing Operations, IT, Engineering, Maintenance, FP&R, Regional Plant Systems Integrator and Quality for system requirements.**

**Principal Duties and Responsibilities**
- **
Maintain and troubleshoot Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) including Allen Bradley, ELAU & Siemens, SQL Databases, Wonderware based Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) or Panelview.**
- ** Maintain and troubleshoot plant floor electrical, control and pneumatics components including: vision systems, industrial and collaborative robots, valves, motors, loop controllers, solenoids, control system I/O (Flex IO and Point IO), measurement and instrumentation systems (flow meters, load cells, photoelectrics, level probes, metal detectors, container fill detectors, touch screen monitors, computer equipment and peripherals and container vacuum detection).**
- ** Maintaining the current InBatch, Opera and other process automation systems**
- ** Configuration and installation of a all plant systems**
- ** Lead plant automation projects. Includes management of all aspects of the implementation including people, process, and systems.**
- ** Provide input to major capital projects involving automation to ensure global automation standards and policies are followed.**
- ** Function as a technical resource and shift troubleshooting resource for operations, maintenance and engineering (requires climbing, bending and crawling)**
- ** Facilitate training (written material, using digital flows tools and audiovisual content) for maintenance and operations personnel.**
- ** Provide extensive reporting and communication of problems and steps taken.**
- ** Perform basic network diagnostics (mostly Ethernet, Ethernet/IP & DeviceNet).**
- ** Follow backup procedures (controllers, panels, programmable switches, etc.).**
- ** Document changes made to software and hardware (electrical and Process & Instrumentation prints).**
- ** Be accountable for meeting or exceeding safety standards according to the published company and regulatory policies/guidelines.**
- ** Simple SQL querying for troubleshooting**
- ** Support, troubleshoot and perform improvement configurations to the AGV and AMR fleet.**
- ** Complete controls related projects as assigned**
- ** Communicate with regional and global systems teams**

**Education/ Experience**
- ** Technical degree (Bachelor’s degree preferred)**
- ** Minimum 5 years of relevant plant technical experience**
- ** Experience in systems configuration, maintenance and knowledge of manufacturing operations core processes**
- ** Ability to read and use electrical schematics**
- ** Know, understand, and interpret NEC regulatory requirements**
- ** Experience with Wonderware Industrial Automation software (SCADA, Historian, Archestra) or an equivalent software required**
- ** Ability to troubleshoot electrical circuits (3 phase 480 VAC, 120 VAC, 24VAC and VDC control circuits).**
- ** Ability to troubleshoot and program PLC's utilizing ladder logic programming. Familiar with Sequencer programming and AOI blocks. (Allen Bradley, Panelview OIT experience a plus)**
- ** Be available to work on different shifts and weekends as needed**

**Preferred Qualifications**
- ** Experience troubleshooting Wonderware/AVEVA System Platform.**
- ** Experience working with Microsoft SQL databases.**
- ** Knowledge of Industrial Network Communication protocols (Ethernet, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Profibus)**
- ** Ability to troubleshoot and commission Variable Frequency AC Drives, 3 phase motor starters, solenoids, control values, flowmeters, servo motors and drives, analog sensors (pressure, level, temperature), load cells.**
- ** Familiarity with Cisco architecture and infrastructure (Basic LAN concepts)**
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