Advantage Technical is seeking a Automation Technician for our client in Buffalo Grove, IL! This is a Fortune global 500 company, the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
REQUIRED:
Troubleshooting of Manufacturing/Production Equipment.
Mechanical/Electrical/Controls Skills
Preventative Maintenance
Understanding PLC's
Schematic understanding
HMI, Voltage, Multimeters
Sensors and Vision systems
Location: 700 Corporate Grove Drive Buffalo Grove, IL 60089-4554
Pay grades based off of years of experience:
* 2-5 years = $27.50-$30
* 3-6 years = $31-$33
* 7+ years = $34-$35
Shifts Available:
F Shift - 6pm-6am Sun/Mon/Tues/every other Sat + shift differential
H Shift - 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.
