What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Maintenance Tech position at Advantage Technical?
Automation Technician
Position Type: Direct Hire
Position Salary: 28/HR - 35/HR (Depending on level of Experience)
Position Location: Columbia, SC
Shifts: Multiple shifts
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
- Maintains software, documentation, and equipment to the latest revision or operational specifications
- Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism
- Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner
- 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
- Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects
- Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry
- May require travel to other sites or equipment vendors’ locations
- Experience working in a Manufacturing environment
