Automation Technician

5 days ago


Columbia, United States Advantage Technical Full time

Automation Technician


Position Type: Direct Hire


Position Salary: 28/HR - 32/HR (Depending on Experience)


Position Location: Columbia, SC


Shifts

6am-6pm Sun/Mon/Tues/every other Wed

6pm-6am Sun/Mon/Tues/every other Wed + shift differential

6am-6pm Thur/Fri/Sat/every other Wed

6pm-6am Wed/Thur/Fri/every other Saturday + shift differential


What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

  • Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Matching 401K
  • PTO
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Employee discounts at local retailers

General Purpose:

Automation: Supports automation engineering services, production automation, and activities

Mechanical: Repairs and maintains process machinery and mechanical equipment such as conveyor systems and production machines and equipment

Electrical: Maintains and troubleshoots in-circuit and functional testers, associated test fixtures, stress chambers and chamber racks to ensure manufacturing test equipment is on-line


Principle Accountabilities:

  • Maintain continuous system operation by adjusting, repairing, replacing, or modifying automation/robotic system components
  • Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems and components and return to serviceability
  • Perform scheduled preventive maintenance actions on all subsystems and related components
  • Ensure preventative maintenance of robotic and process support equipment are completed on a regularly scheduled basis
  • Understanding of PLCs
  • Read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical diagrams including complex automated system drawings
  • Collaborate with the automation team in the qualification process of automated systems
  • Records procedures and results, numerical and graphical data, and recommendations for changes in product or method
  • Maintains software, documentation and equipment to the latest revision or operational specifications
  • Assists engineers in developing and designing hardware and software required for all automation solutions per specifications
  • Trains other technicians and operators on products, processes and equipment
  • Proper use of power tools and measuring equipment
  • Strong awareness of safety
  • Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism
  • Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner
  • Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules
  • Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules
  • Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment
  • Analyzes and implements corrective action reports and process tracking mechanisms
  • Records times and problems in equipment logs
  • Provides daily equipment functioning activity information
  • Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects
  • Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry
  • Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording and indicating instruments and equipment
  • May require travel to other Flex sites or equipment vendors’ locations
  • Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance



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