AUTOMATION TECHNICIAN
(Full-Time Position) Minimum of 4 years experience
WORK LOCATION: AUSTIN, TX
FULL BENEFITS - Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K
RELOCATION ALLOWANCE
ANNUAL BONUS
1.5 PAY FOR ALL OVERTIME WORKED
HOURLY PAY RANGE: $27.50-$32
WORK SHIFT: DAY AND EVENING SHIFTS
General Duties:
- 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. knowledge and understanding of PLCs.
- Electrical: Maintains and troubleshoots in-circuit and functional testers, associated test fixtures, stress chambers, and chamber racks to ensure manufacturing test equipment is online.
- 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 is completed on a regularly scheduled basis.
- Read and interpret electrical schematics and 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
- Through troubleshooting, identify machine malfunctions and isolate the failure mechanism. Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.
- 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.
- Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances 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 sites or equipment vendors’ locations.
- The highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.
SHIFT E - 600a-600p Sun, Mon, Tue, every other Wed
SHIFT F - 600p-600a Sun, Mon, Tue, every other Sat (15% Diff/HOURLY PAY UPLIFT)
SHIFT G - 600a-600p Thur, Fri, Sat, every other Wed
SHIFT H - 600p-600a Wed, Thur, Fri, every other Sat (20% Diff/HOURLY PAY UPLIFT)