Colgate-Palmolive · 9 hours ago
Controls Technician
Piscataway, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$70K/yr - $108K/yr
5+ years expColgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company specializing in various care products. They are looking for a motivated and experienced Controls Technician to support and maintain electrical and control systems at their Process Technology Center and manufacturing site, focusing on plant automation equipment and continuous improvement projects.
BeautyConsumer GoodsHealth CarePersonal Care and Hygiene
Responsibilities
Maintain, troubleshoot and program Rockwell Automation Programmable Logic Controllers
Maintain and troubleshoot plant floor electrical and instrumentation components including: valves, flow meters, load cells, Variable Frequency Drives, etc
Perform basic troubleshooting and maintenance of Windows Server operating system such as Security patching and other limited updates
Document changes made to software and hardware configurations (electrical and process and instrumentation prints)
Understand the flow of data into and out of the control systems including some use of SQL data reporting or related tools
Be accountable for meeting or exceeding safety and quality standards in your work according to the published company policies
Qualification
Required
High School Diploma
5 years of plant technical experience OR 3 years of experience plus a 2-year technical degree
Ability to maintain, troubleshoot and program Programmable Logic Controllers using ladder logic programming
Ability to read and use electrical schematics and Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID)
Knowledge to troubleshoot electrical circuits (3 phase 480 VAC, 120 VAC, 24VAC and 24VDC control circuits)
Experience with Industrial Automation software (SCADA, HMI, Historian, etc.) or an equivalent software
Ability to access, input and retrieve information from a computer utilizing Google Suite applications (Sheets, Docs, etc.) or Microsoft Office equivalent
Ability to access and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows based operating systems
Preferred
Experience with the AVEVA (Wonderware) software suite (System Platform, InTouch, Batch Management, etc.)
Experience working with Microsoft SQL databases or equivalent
Knowledge of Industrial Network Communication protocols (Ethernet, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Profibus)
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Basic life insurance
Paid parental leave
Disability coverage
Participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements
Minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days
13 paid holidays
Paid sick leave adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws.
Company
Colgate-Palmolive
Make More Smiles.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15.15MKey Investors
SMILE HealthThird PointVontobel
2023-08-08Non Equity Assistance
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2021-03-16Post Ipo Equity· $15.15M
Leadership Team
Prabha Narasimhan
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Stephan Habif
Chief Technology Officer
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