Maintenance Automation Technician (Weekend Shift)

Founded more than 80 years ago, OK Foods has grown from a livestock and poultry feed manufacturer to join one of the world’s leading chicken producers, Bachoco.

Bachoco OK Foods produces the highest quality chicken products for the U.S. market. Currently, the Bachoco OK Foods family includes more than 4,000 team members who are dedicated to consistently producing high-quality chicken products and nourishing people around the world.

Bachoco USA  is seeking a Maintenance Automation Technician for 1st shift weekends in the Fort Smith, AR complex.

Work Schedule: Friday - Monday

Summary: Preserve, repair and maintain the computer-controlled systems and robotic devices to maximize efficiency. Performs routine diagnostic checks on automated systems, monitor automated systems, isolate problems and perform repairs. Performs service to control systems ranging from electromechanical devices and systems to high-speed robotics and programmable logic controllers(PLCs). These types of systems include robotic assembly devices, conveyors, batch mixers, electrical distribution systems, and building automation systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Check daily the parameters of the critical control points: temperature, weight, amperage and pressure, in order to correct deviations in time and form.
• Execute and coordinate preventive maintenance of electrical, electronic and control equipment, to guarantee the availability and operation of the equipment.
• Coordinate and supervise the implementation of electrical, electronic and control projects carried out by external personnel (contractors), in order to improve facilities and processes. Be the technical resource for Engineering for new projects involving setup, calibration, new technology, and sanitary design.
• Coordinate and execute the corrective maintenance of electrical, electronic and control equipment, in order to reduce wasted time.
• Coordinate and supervise the performance of preventive and corrective maintenance to substations, in order to reduce lost time.
• Comply with all electrical panel organization and cleaning to a personnel and food safety required standard.  To comply with requirements established by the Food Quality and Safety System
• Own and understand our power distribution and drive timely execution of MCC and transformer PMs.
• Manage all panel documentation, including breaker labeling and machine schematics at the equipment.
• Install, maintain, and replace automation systems at key points in the production process
• Troubleshoot non-functioning components including servos, sensors, and control components
• Log equipment usage, parts replacement, and scheduled maintenance to ensure maximum functionality
• Periodically report to leadership regarding automation capabilities and status
• This is a safety sensitive position.

Education and/or Experience: Requires more than 1 year experience on this job or related jobs in the plant or elsewhere. Requires 3 years' experience in Industrial Electricity as well as 3 years combined experience with instrumentation and programmable controllers, and 2 years of electrical/electronic training or apprenticeship.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; fumes or airborne particles and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.

*Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies:   Please note that Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee.   In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco USA.