Job Description

Automation Technician

Position Type: Direct Hire

Position Salary: 28/HR - 35/HR (Depending on level of Experience)

Position Location: Columbia, SC

Shifts- Mon - Friday (Saturdays are OT)

1st Shift 7am-3pm

2 nd Shift 3pm-11pm $1.25 differential

3 rd Shift 11pm-7am $1.75 differential

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
• Maintains software, documentation, and equipment to the latest revision or operational specifications
• Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism
• Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner
• 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
• Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects
• Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry
• May require travel to other sites or equipment vendors’ locations
• Experience working in a Manufacturing environment

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