Automation and Controls Specialist - $70k-$90k
Company: OZINGA
Location: Joliet
Posted on: May 6, 2024
Job Description:
Overview
Summary:
The Automation and Controls Specialist is responsible for
programming, designing, building, and maintaining plant automated
systems with guidance from the Electrical Department Manager. This
position will perform various functions related to electrical
controls, troubleshooting, and new installations while also
periodically instructing and guiding other maintenance and plant
personnel.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyze overall plant systems and their operations ensuring
proper functionality
- Perform electrical preventative maintenance and troubleshooting
in a systematic manner when applicable
- Plans, directs, and records periodic electrical testing,
recommends modification or replacement of equipment failing to meet
operating standards
- Installs/repairs wiring & small conduit, including the bending
and threading of conduit, according to accepted codes and NEC
standards
- Monitors inventory part levels ensuring timely availability of
product
- Use electrical instrumentation, process controls, relay logic,
and control circuits to wire, configure, and maintain motor control
circuits (including Soft Starts and Variable Frequency Drives)
- Instructs and supervises personnel and/or contractors on
project installations and ensures compliance with all safety rules
and procedures, including reporting and correcting unsafe actions
or conditions in a timely manner
- Responds to emergency calls as directed
- Create and/or file various written reports, including
schematics for new or modified systems and requested work estimates
Global Responsibilities:
- Regular attendance and physical presence at work is an
essential function of this position
- This job may require additional duties not listed above and the
employee may be asked to perform those duties to meet business
needs Qualifications:
Education/Specialized Knowledge/Professional Certifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Specialized education or training preferred
- PLC training and experience, college or vocational Experience:
- 5+ years' experience in an industrial setting with 110v/208v
and 480v
- Possess knowledge in PLC architecture, programming,
installations, and maintenance practices
- Ability to read and interpret manuals, parts catalogs,
electrical/control schematics as they apply
- Possess basic knowledge of NFPA-70 (NEC) and NFPA 70E (ARC
Flash & Electrical Safety) Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to work reasonable overtime and off-hour occasions as
requested by management
- Must be a self-starter and demonstrate a sense of urgency
- Possess strong inter-personal and communication skills
- Demonstrate and encompass the values of Ozinga Working
Conditions:
- Operation within a fast-paced environment
- Exposed to moving mechanical parts, vehicles, heavy
construction equipment, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside
weather conditions
- Noise level is usually moderate, but can be high and requires
personal hearing protection on occasion at job sites, plants and
laboratories
- Must be able to work through stressful situations while
maintaining professionalism and composure
- Local Travel Required
- Possibility of short duration, long-distance travel Physical
Requirements:
- Regularly required to talk or hear; frequently is required to
stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with
hands and arms
- Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop,
kneel, crouch or crawl
- Must be able to stand and move about job sites with uneven and
unpaved ground while managing concrete delivery onsite
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close
vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth
perception and ability to adjust focus
- Must be able to operate buttons, levers, and other controls
located on various equipment
- Must be able to work flexible hours as necessary
- Must be able to maneuver in and around our plants, yards and
jobsites as necessary
- Lift/Carry up to 55 pounds frequently
- Lift up to 100 pounds occasionally
Ozinga is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applications
for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed,
gender, veteran status, national origin, age, disability, sexual
orientation, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other
legally protected status.
Keywords: OZINGA, Lafayette , Automation and Controls Specialist - $70k-$90k, Other , Joliet, Indiana
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