Position Title: Automation Technician
Wage: $19.50-$27/hour
Shift: B
Hours: 6:20pm-6:30am
If you're looking for a great company to learn and grow with, this is your opportunity. Apply now! Up to $5,000 POTENTIAL RETENTION BONUS.
Automation Technician Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Set-up or convert automated equipment within specifications of work orders, company, and OSHA regulated safety procedures, and quality guidelines
- Perform required housekeeping, keeping all automation storage areas organized to a 5S standard
- Communicate and coordinate work efforts with other departments and employees
- Calculate and maintain rates
- Document quality checks, repair, adjustments, and maintenance activities
- Analyze, troubleshoot, diagnose, adjust, or repair electrical, pneumatic, or mechanical components on automated and semi-automated equipment
- Perform adjustments, repairs, and maintenance on machines in a manner that complies with company safety and workmanship expectations
- Adjust, modify, and/or fabrication of parts to existing equipment
- Perform preventative and predictive maintenance to equipment when necessary or assigned to
- Follow provided work instructions to ensure proper lubricants and inspections are done to satisfactory standards
- Most machines require complete teardown, so the ability to dismantle and reassemble without misassembling components is expected
- Minimize faults, alarms, and product scrap by proposing solutions or improvements to the equipment or manufacturing process through constructive thinking and collaborating with affected departments
- Maintain and advance skill level by attending seminars and vendor training to keep up with current and future automation technologies
- Troubleshoot PLC's to minimize downtime; editing or modifying a PLC is not a required primary function of an Automation Technician
Automation Technician Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent; technical or trade school associates degree or similar is preferred
- Proven electrical, pneumatic, and/or mechanical knowledge
- Working knowledge of PLC's is expected; PLC programming and editing preferred
QPS Employment Group is a full-service staffing firm comprised of dedicated and passionate people with over 50 offices throughout the Midwest. We place great people with great companies in industrial, skilled trades, administrative, manufacturing, general labor and professional employment.
Why Work with QPS?
- Access to sought-after positions with leading employers
- Dedicated placement specialists who will guide you through every step of the job search process
- Over 30 years of staffing experience
Best of all, our services are 100% free to job seekers!
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
teresa.considine@qpsemployment.com
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