Maintenance Controls Technician || Oxford NC

Title: Maintenance Controls Technician

Location: Oxford NC 27565

Job Type: Full-time / Permanent

Job Description:

As part of the Maintenance Team, you will be working to deliver solutions to improve our process reliability, product quality, and plant-wide performance.

Some of the duties of the instrumentation and control technician are:

• Consulting diagrams and technical documentation such as schematics, manuals, standards, and codes;
• Maintaining backup and revision documentation for control systems and instrumentation;
• Manage SCADA-type devices in an industrial-based environment
• Installing, configuring, calibrating, and maintaining control, measurement, and indicating instrumentation (pneumatic, analog & digital);
• Configuring and programming Programmable Logic Controls (PLC) and Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC);
• Organize and order PLC control components to maintain plant process control systems.
• Work with corporate IT staff as required with miscellaneous network and computer activities.
• Must be able to prepare technical reports for documenting issues/changes to equipment.
• Must be able to manage projects for implementing changes and improvements.
• Employees must be willing to be on call to support production needs.
• Installing and terminating electrical, pneumatic, and fluid connections;
• Inspecting and testing the operation of instruments and systems to diagnose faults;
• Removing, repairing, adjusting, and replacing components;
• Calibrating components and systems;
• Assisting engineering in plant design, modification, and hazard analysis;
• Maintaining various computer-based control systems;
• Performing scheduled maintenance programs; and,
• Keeping up-to-date with advances in technology in industry and the trade.

Some of the instruments include transmitters, analyzers, sensors, detectors, signal conditioners, recorders, controllers, and final control elements. They are used in industry to measure and control variables such as pressure, flow, temperature, level, motion, force, and chemical composition.

Successful candidates will also demonstrate the following skills and personal traits

• Ability to plan and prioritize tasks across multiple projects
• Self-motivated and highly organized with good time management skills
• Detail-oriented work style
• Dedication and commitment to meeting expectations
• Team Player/Cooperative, yet assertive
• Ability to work in an often fast-paced, hectic, and demanding environment
• Must have exceptional problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Must have proven experience in PLC logic and programming with Allen Bradley PLC's and other types of controllers.
• Must be able to create and read logic and flow diagrams for program design, programming, simulation and testing, and start-up
• Lean Manufacturing

Job Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or associate degree in a related field preferred.

At least 2 years of related experience is required.