What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Technician position at Flex?
At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values : we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.
Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives.
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Automation Tech located in Austin, TX
What a typical day looks like :
- Work Shift : 600am-600pm Sunday, Monday, Tuesday every other Wednesday
- 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
- 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.
- Assists engineers in developing and designing hardware and software required for all automation solutions per specifications.
- 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.
- 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.
- Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team :
