Automation/Maintenance Technician - MGS Mfg. Group, Inc

MGS has an exciting opportunity for an Automation/Maintenance Technician to join our MGS Germantown team. The current opening is on the 12 hour night shift.

As an Automation/Maintenance Technician at MGS, you support end of arm tooling (EOAT), robots, and automated assembly machinery and you perform the preventative maintenance plan for equipment including preparing, setting-up, and recalibrating molding equipment and machinery.

Below are additional duties and responsibilities:

• Serve as a good role model to employees for safe work practices and behavior by conducting yourself professionally, keeping in mind your own safety and the safety of others.
• Learn and master all necessary areas of the quality system.
• Follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Documentation Practices (GDP).
• Perform basic robotic programming.
• Support automated machinery production runs by solving technical issues.
• Responsible for training on assembly machines and robot set-ups.
• Perform mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic repairs on production and support equipment.
• Follow preventative maintenance plan for molding equipment on a daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, and annual schedule, or per customer requests.
• May prepare and set up machinery for scheduled production runs.
• Re-calibrate molding machinery per annual preventative maintenance plan.
• Complete maintenance issues as they arise and complete necessary documentation for each assignment.
• Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks as well as to accept direction on given assignments.
• Resolve auxiliary equipment issues as they arise.
• Any other duties as assigned.

About MGS

As a global provider of healthcare manufacturing solutions, MGS provides the right balance to drive vital innovations: robust end-to-end solutions combined with the strong customer focus and seamless collaboration of an agile partner. That’s why we’re the engineering and manufacturing partner of choice for today’s leading Pharma, Diagnostic and MedTech innovators. Serving customers from 12 strategically located facilities around the world, we transform our customers’ most pressing challenges into innovations that improve lives. To learn more about MGS, please visit www.mgsmfg.com.

Keyword: injection molding, plastics, hydraulics, maintenance
Required Experience:

A qualified Automation/Maintenance Technician candidate would fulfill these requirements:

• Completion of an accredited two-year technical college program, in a related field of study, or a four-year university program, in a related field of study; and three to five years related experience, or accrued on-the-job training and experience.
• Ability to perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
• Understanding of basic hydraulic and electrical systems along with proper safety issues.
• Understanding of electrical and hydraulic prints.
• Basic understanding of ladder logic or PLC programming.
• Understand and utilize general safety knowledge within the work environment.

Benefits:

We offer an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401K, disability, life, FSA, vacation, and holidays.

From: MGS Mfg. Group, Inc