We have an opportunity for a Controls Technician at our Brampton, ON facility.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide technical support for recent controls systems installations in manufacturing and assembly plants.
- Assist with installation, programming, testing, and debugging of electrical equipment and systems.
- Follow established and defined processes and procedures to complete basic projects and solve problems of limited scope.
Expectations:
- Compile and analyze operational test data to resolve performance issues.
- Perform controls troubleshooting and confer with controls engineers and other team members to resolve problems.
- Provide technical information concerning calibration, programming and machine setup.
- Install design modifications as required.
- Maintain critical environmental and process controls.
- Maintain project documents using approved methodology, tools, and templates.
- Participate on project teams supporting activities related to controls issues.
- Analyze test data and reports to determine if design meets functional and performance specifications.
- A mindful eye to personal safety concerns (Lock-out tag out practices)
- Provide support to Controls Engineer as requested.
- Assist in the development and training of plant maintenance personnel in the area of controls systems.
- All other duties as assigned
Qualifications and Experience:
- Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology or equivalent experience.
- Years of Experience: 2+ years progressive controls experience in an automotive manufacturing or assembly facility.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong technical knowledge of electrical and pneumatic /control systems and the ability to apply these concepts within the manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated basic understanding of mechanical concepts involving machine designs and process requirements involved in the manufacturing process.
- Ability to create, read, understand, and modify electrical prints and specifications.
- Root cause analysis skills.
- Technical competence in software to design ladder logic and machine controls and troubleshoot machine controls (Siemens-Step 7, Allen Bradley-Ladder Logic).
- Proficient in Microsoft Office software.
- Knowledge of servo motors, motion controls, and drives.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
Competencies:
- Energy and Drive
- Action oriented
- Drive for results
- Priority setting
- Organizing
- Time management
- Timely decision making
- Strategic Skills
- Functional / Technical Skills
- Technical learning
- Learning on the fly
- Problem solving
Traits/Values:
- Hope: The quality of possessing and adhering to positive, optimistic expectation of future events.
- Trust: Confidence in one another
- Compassion: The quality of an understanding of another's challenges.
- Justice: Concern for fairness.
- Wisdom: The quality of having good, sound judgement.
- Courage: Strength in the face of adversity.