ELECTRICAL CONTROLS TECHNICIAN

About Wood-Mizer

Wood-Mizer is the world's largest manufacturer of portable sawmills, with over 100,000 mills sold in more than 100 countries. Wood-Mizer provides forestry and timber professionals around the world with a complete line of narrowband portable and industrial sawmills, wideband sawmilling equipment, resaws, edgers, kilns, molders/planers, firewood processing equipment, pallet recycling equipment, material handling equipment, bandsaw blades, and blade maintenance equipment.

Our Culture and Values

Wood-Mizer is dedicated to customer and employee-owner success, putting compassion and faith at the heart of the business, and committing to providing high-quality equipment that makes a positive difference in people's lives. Wood-Mizer is a 100% employee-owned company that believes every mill owner is an extension of our Wood-Mizer family - a philosophy that makes both our customers and employee-owners feel at ease.

What Makes Wood-Mizer Stand-Out

Wood-Mizer believes that investing in people is an investment in the future. As a result, we provide a variety of benefits to ensure that our employees-owners are healthy and happy so that we can all grow, learn, and innovate together.

• Equity: Through our ESOP, you can become a 100% owner and receive Wood-Mizer stock (Employee Stock Ownership Plan).
• Retirement: Matching funds in a 401k.
• Bonuses: Discretionary Bonus available monthly.
• Pay Options: We provide several methods for receiving biweekly payments, as well as the option for Wages On-Demand, which allows you to receive earned wages on a daily basis.
• Paid Time Off: PTO accrual begins with the first paycheck, with immediate eligibility for paid holidays, personal marriage, birth/adoption, and other events.
• FREE Health Care Access: We provide FREE access to Wood-Mizer’s Health Care Clinics by Marathon Health if you are covered by our health insurance.
• Insurance: Health, dental, vision, life insurance paid by the company, supplemental life insurance, and short- and long-term disability are all available.
• Workplace Giving Programs: Employee-owners who serve the community/those in need through monetary donations and hands-on work are eligible for a variety of benefits.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Wood-Mizer offers a generous tuition reimbursement program to help you achieve your long-term career goals.
• Annual Allowances: Employee-owners receive reimbursement for the cost of their own safety boots, safety glasses, and gym membership. Each year, they are also given money to spend on Wood-Mizer apparel and swag.
• Other Rewards: Companywide celebrations, company outings, complimentary coffee stations and fruit, gift cards for your birthday and anniversary, referral reward program, discounted shipping rate, and much more!

A Brief Overview

The Industrial Controls Technician will be responsible for machine or system diagnosis and understanding the controls of our various equipment and the functionality of the PLC programs. They need to remotely diagnose key points in the circuits that a customer could assist with fault finding. This would include faulty sensors, solenoids, communication cables, encoders, and all the various electronic components that may need to be diagnosed. An interest in and in-depth understanding of the machinery or material flow will be key to quickly diagnosing and assisting customers to get back up and running in a timely fashion.

Locations

Indianapolis, IN

What you will do

• Assemble, evaluate, test, & maintain electrical wiring and components as applied within industrial and automotive style electrical systems.
• Troubleshoot, repair, install and commission industrial sawmilling and related material-handling systems and equipment with a strong focus on industrial control systems and pneumatics.
• Troubleshoot and perform basic modifications of PLC & HMI programs and industrial control systems.
• Troubleshoot industrial communication protocols such as Modbus, CANBus, & Ethernet /IP.
• Understand and troubleshoot common industrial sensing devices, both analog and digital.
• Troubleshoot common industrial motor drive and motion control systems such as variable frequency drives, soft starters, and servo drives.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics, electronic circuit diagrams, hydraulic & pneumatic schematics, and structural prints.
• Troubleshoot 240/480V 3-phase AC and 12/24V DC electrical systems.
• Understand and troubleshoot hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical power transmission systems including sheaves, bearings, belts, etc.
• Report general projects’ statuses on a daily basis.
• Order parts and supplies as needed utilizing internal systems.
• Troubleshoot customers’ machines problems and accept parts orders via the Customer Service Department’s call center.
• Travel to customer locations as needed, up to 60% of the time.

Education Qualifications

• Trade School Certificate Electrical-based technical degree Pref

Experience Qualifications

• 1-3 years Electrical-based work experience. Required

Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of hand & power tools, soldering, multimeter, and other related equipment. (High proficiency)
• Possess working knowledge industrial wiring, cabling, and terminating methods and best practices. (High proficiency)
• Must demonstrate strong attention to detail. (High proficiency)

If you want a career, not just a job, apply today and learn how Wood-Mizer employee-owners are making a difference around the world!

Wood-Mizer offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants and prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment, regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.