PLC Technician, 1st Shift

Job description

PLC Technician Position Summary: The PLC Technician is responsible for the controls health, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of automated material handling systems (MHE) and supporting control networks across a highly automated distribution center. This role ensures equipment availability, safe operations, rapid recovery from faults, and reduction of recurring downtime by owning controls diagnostics, supporting root cause analysis, and improving logic, HMI, and system performance. This role partners closely with Maintenance Technicians, Maintenance Leadership, Reliability/Asset Engineering, Operations, IT, and OEM vendors to maintain stable automation and improve overall throughput and uptime. Responsibilities: · Serve as the controls escalation point for automation-related issues impacting throughput and availability. · Diagnose and resolve issues including: o PLC faults and program behavior anomalies o Sensor/actuator failures, I/O issues, device configuration o VFD/servo faults, safety circuit trips (as applicable) o Network communications faults (EtherNet/IP, Profinet, industrial networks) · Support rapid recovery during system-down events, including safe restart and...