Controls Technician

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Controls Technician – Cedar Rapids, IA

As a Controls Technician, this motivated individual will join a team that serves as technical experts for the plant. Accountabilities will include executing work orders, providing design support, developing Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) code, SCADA tags and graphics displays for plant and corporate led projects, creating trends and reports, assisting in training the general maintenance population, and maintaining current controls systems. The candidate should have the ability to manage large projects, work with electricians and drafters.

Shift hours:

Hiring for 1st Shift 7:00am – 3:00pm

• Ability and willingness to work overtime, any shift, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays
• Plant operation is 24 hours per day, 7 days per week

Pay:

• $43.20 per hour up to $47.67 per hour based on experience and skill level.
• Overtime Pay
• Time worked after 8 hours of work per day is paid at 1.5 times regular rate of pay
• Time worked on Saturday is paid at 1.5 times regular rate of pay
• Time worked on Sunday is paid at 2 times (double pay) regular rate of pay
• Time worked on a holiday is paid at 3 times regular rate of pay (if eligible for holiday pay and holiday is worked)

Benefits:

• 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 13 paid company holidays
• 401(k) match
• Health Insurance – includes medical, dental and vision
• AND much more!

• Health Insurance- Including medical, dental and life
• And much more!

About our Location:

The Cedar Rapids plant offers numerous growth and promotion opportunities, often promoting from within for salaried positions. The plant provides competitive pay and benefits, making it one of the highest-rated employers in the area. The plant organizes holiday dinners, family days, bring your child to work day, a summer bash with families and community involvement, and a quarter-century club celebration for employees with 25 or more years of service. Fun facts include Ashton Kutcher’s previous employment at the plant and his father’s 35-year tenure in the fruit department. The plant is also the sole domestic producer of Betty Crocker frosting.

Our Products:

Cereals, Desserts, Gushers, Fruit by the foot, Fruit Rollups and more!

What your day will look like:

• Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
• Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
• Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
• CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
  • Execute work orders, provide design support, develop Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) code, SCADA tags and graphics displays for plant and corporate led projects
  • Create trends and reports, assist in training the general maintenance population, and maintain current controls systems.
  • Manage large projects, work with electricians and drafters
  
  

What you have to offer:

• Minimum of a high school education or GED
• 2 years of experience Controls Programming and Industrial Controls Technology experience is required
• Experience with programming and configuring Allen Bradley PLC platforms
  Ability to configure and program a variety of control systems including, Wonderware, ArchestrA Systems, PLC’s.
• Ability to read and update electrical and control schematics.
• Ability to read Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams
• Ability to design and troubleshoot a range of electrical and instrumentation systems.
• Experience calibrating and interfacing with analog transmitters, VFD’s, load cell systems, flowmeter, level probes, other smart devices.
• Excellent troubleshooting and complex problem-solving skills
• Control networks – EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Modbus, PROFIBUS
• Network communication technologies and topologies (Ethernet)
• Client/server architecture using Terminal Services
• Servo, Visual Basic and database programming
• Control system project implementation experience

Physical requirements:

• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
• Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces
• Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
• Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net and gloves when required
• Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
• Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
• Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best – bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

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