Field Service Technician - $75000.00 - $83500.00 / year

Sterling Engineering
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
$75K-$83.5K a year
Permanent

The Service Technician performs the assembly, installation, and commission of equipment. Troubleshoots and repairs mechanical problems and / or the built-in hardware & software control programming.

Performing customer service for the North & South American market and occasional support for other subsidiaries worldwide.

Essential Functions

  • Installation and start-up of new & second-hand machines, including complete lines.
  • Onsite repairs for machine breakdowns.
  • Testing repaired items to ensure compliance with technical specifications.
  • Packaging format tooling installation, set-up & testing. Performing trials with products and packaging formats at customers’ sites.
  • PLC program modification.
  • Provide basic training for customer operators and maintenance technicians.
  • Provide technical advice to the customer (best maintenance practice, spare parts recommendations, availability of upgrades and retrofits).
  • Preventive Maintenance contracts : Visit worksites on a regular basis to do preventive maintenance on instruments, controls, motors, drives, circuit boards, PLC’s, and other equipment according to the manufacturers' recommended schedules.
  • Inspect and upgrade used machines.
  • Responsible for informing the design department of parts that were reworked as a result of an installation to ensure the customer receives the correct updates.
  • Providing detailed feedback for root cause analysis to design, sales, or manufacturing teams for corrective action.
  • Ensure detailed daily reporting.
  • Support electrical engineering (update drawings, debug programs, etc.).
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Good awareness of Health & Safety issues.
  • Must be able to modify the control logics and add rungs / sub-routines in the field as required by customer.
  • Must be able to apply principles and theories of automation, electrical circuitry, engineering, and mathematics.
  • Must have a strong mechanical aptitude.
  • Must be able to read and understand pneumatic and hydraulic drawings.
  • Must have strong knowledge of automation with PLC’s (Allen Bradley, Siemens) and PC’s (Softlogic e.g. Isagraf).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of the Spanish or French language is a big advantage.
  • Must be able to travel at least 80% of the time
  • Willing and able to work weekends and overtime.

Education and Experience

  • Minimum of an Associate Degree in Electronic Technology. Practical experience may be substituted for years of education.
  • 5 years’ experience troubleshooting packaging machines, preferably filling and capping machines.
  • 30+ days ago
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