YOUR ROLE IN THE FAMILY:

• Maintains a safe and secure work environment, including correcting unsafe acts/conditions, facilitating safety meetings, performing safety inspections, and investigating accidents, as required.       
• Evaluate and troubleshoot facility and manufacturing control systems consisting of PLCs, VFD’s, computer controls, HMI interfaces, as well as controls and process instrumentation.         
• Troubleshoot or modify existing PLC programs and make system hardware recommendations to resolve operation problems, improve processes, to support factory initiatives and continuous improvement.         
• Design control systems and prepare drawings, P&IDs, specifications, and scopes of work.        
• Document and maintain revisions to existing automated systems and maintain appropriate PLC, and computer software/hardware information.        
• Design and implement improvements to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve reliability of existing plant and manufacturing control systems and equipment.        
• Support and assist Maintenance personnel in troubleshooting, testing, modifying, and installing electrical equipment and control systems.         
• Support maintenance department with implementation of SAP workorders and maintenance hour tracking and adjustment. ·        
• Advanced understanding of networks and ability to troubleshoot common outages and system communication issues.       
• Repairs critical electrical equipment and performs preventive and predictive maintenance and completes projects such as mechanical and electrical hardware and software upgrades.       
• Repairs and replaces control devices such as switches, proximity sensors, push buttons, contactors, motor starts, thermocouples, etc. as needed.         
• Reads electrical drawings for conveyors, machines, and building.
• Repairs, maintains, and troubleshoots electrical breakdowns associated with high-speed packaging and processing machinery to ensure continuous production operations.      
• Performs efficient troubleshooting and repair to maximize efficiencies and limit downtime.        
• Maintains and repairs electrical breakdowns in operation, which includes packaging equipment, motors, conveyors, ovens, VFD’s, PLC’s, wrappers, palletizers, robotics, blending operations, etc.         
• Repairs and replaces defective components in motors, generators, controllers, switchboards, conductors, switches and varied electrical fixtures.        
• Maintains calibrating of instrumentation and supporting records.         
• Performs defensive repair and preservation of electronic and electrical systems, equipment, and devices.     
• Tests solid-state circuitry to determine defective components along with defective parts replacement.        
• Effectively responds to directions during emergencies by understanding emergency procedures, equipment, and systems as necessary; Implements contingency plan to the level required.       
• Complies with environmental regulations when using, dispensing, or handling hazardous and non-hazardous materials and waste.       
• Must be willing to have hands-on involvement with industrial equipment.         
• Other duties as assigned by managers or leads.