Automation Technician
Core
Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve automated production equipment and systems to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing operations.
Role type
Production Automation Technician
Builds
Automated assembly/test stations, production lines
Domain
Manufacturing automation
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Troubleshooting automation hardware and software, preventive and corrective maintenance, root cause analysis, reading electrical schematics and mechanical drawings, working with sensors, pneumatics, motors, drives, and servo systems, operating industrial HMIs
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
Robots, conveyors, vision systems, automated assembly/test stations, industrial HMIs, sensors, pneumatics, motors, drives, servo systems
Responsibilities
Maintain and troubleshoot automated production equipment; respond to equipment downtime to restore production; verify operation of safety interlocks and guarding; perform preventive and corrective maintenance; document repairs and maintenance activities; support training of operators and maintenance personnel
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC