PLC Support Specialist

PLC Support Specialist

Location: US (remote)

The company is a global manufacturer of process technology, offering an extensive range of products from laboratory to production sized machines and complete plants. Their process equipment is used for wet and dry grinding, mixing, dispersing, de-aeration and classifying. Their technology is used across the world in the Battery, Energy, Electric Vehicle, Food, Pharma, Minerals, and Chemicals markets.

They now have an exciting opportunity to join their team as the PLC Support Specialist for customers in the US and Canada.

The Position:

As part of a new project in the battery production market, you will work with customers producing battery components for electric vehicles (EV).

Support customers and Field Service Technicians in service cases related to PLC / PC / HMI via Remote Services and on customer sites across the US and Canada.

As part of a strong Commissioning Team for new machines in wet and dry grinding at customer‘s site, short travels for signal exchange with customer’s SCADA system are required.

Participation in projects and developments related to Industry 4.0

Communication with other Service Support Center and engineering department worldwide.

The position is remote / home office based anywhere in the US, with up to 40-50% travel time to customer sites in the US and Canada.

The Requirements:

Educated in an engineering field; Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Electromechanical, Mechatronics; or related field.

Experience in a Field Service Engineer / Maintenance Technician position would be preferable.

Solid electrical/programming knowledge.

Experience in industrial PLC environment in Siemens.

Knowledge of drive technology and switchgear construction.

Knowledge and experience in Software creation with Siemens S7 and TIA Portal and the Visualization Software WinCC flexible.

Comfortable with up to 50% travel time to customer sites in the US and Canada.

Field Service Engineer, Field Service Technician, Technical Support Specialist, Field Support Specialist, Maintenance Technician, PLC, Programmable Logic Controller