Automation Technician - Advantage Tech, Inc. : Job Details

Automation Technician

Position Type: Direct Hire

Position Location: Buffalo Grove, IL

Position Salary: $25/HR - $32/HR (Depending on Experience)

Shifts: Both Day & Night Shifts available

Responsibilities:

• The Automation Technician role supports automation engineering services activities such as hardware and software design and development (non-production).
• 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
• Analyzes engineering test results and implements changes to resolve problems
• Collaborate with the automation team in the qualification process of automated systems
• Records procedures and results, numerical and graphical data, and recommendations for changes in product or method
• Maintains software, documentation and equipment to the latest revision or operational specifications
• Assists engineers in developing and designing hardware and software required for all automation solutions per specifications
• Trains other technicians and operators on products, processes, and equipment
• Proper use of power tools and measuring equipment
• Strong awareness of safety
• Specialized job responsibilities may be required for certain positions. These could include one or more of the following duties:
• Assists with customer presentations and interfaces with customers
• Assists engineers with outside third-party automation developments
• Organizes documentation (specifications, schematics, and procedures)

Requirements:

• Typically requires an Associates degree, military training, equivalent vocational training, or equivalent experience
• Typically requires 2 years of related experience (PLC's, HMI's, etc.)
• Demonstrates advanced technical skills which may be used to conduct on-the job training and/or lead/guide other employees
• Highly skilled with ability to move between projects
• Demonstrates broad knowledge of functional techniques and has input to process improvement
• Applies new technologies and technological changes
• Contributes to and improves techniques/ concepts
• Assists in developing goals/targets of line or department
• Requires little to no instruction. Requires little to no supervision