Controls Technician

Johns Manville

Scottsboro, AL

Pay: $44/hr

Shift: Full time

**Who We Are**

Johns Manville is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality insulation and commercial roofing, along with glass fibers and nonwovens for commercial, industrial and residential applications. Our products are used in a wide variety of industries including building products, aerospace, automotive and transportation, filtration, commercial interiors, waterproofing and wind energy.

A proud member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, we serve customers in more than 80 countries around the globe. We are committed to delivering positive and powerful experiences, because we are successful only when our employees and customers thrive. We are passionate, we care about people, we perform at a superior level, and we protect others and our environments.

**Compensation**

The base hourly rate for this position is $44.10.

**Position Overview**

Are you an experienced maintenance professional who enjoys troubleshooting complex equipment, working with PLCs and controls, and solving problems that keep a manufacturing operation running? This role provides the opportunity to put your electrical, instrumentation, controls, and automation expertise to work in a hands-on manufacturing environment.

As a **Controls Technician,** you will play an important role in supporting the safe and reliable production of roofing materials. You'll perform electrical, instrumentation, and controls maintenance, troubleshoot electrical and automated systems, support PLC-controlled equipment, and help identify long-term solutions that improve equipment reliability and uptime.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on troubleshooting, solving challenging equipment issues, improving reliability, and sharing technical knowledge with others.

**Your Day to Day:**

• Follow all Johns Manville safety and environmental requirements, electrical safe-work practices, and Job Safety Analyses (JSAs); report unsafe conditions immediately.
• Provide day-to-day troubleshooting and technical support for plant electrical, instrumentation, controls, automation, and industrial-networking systems.
• Perform industrial electrical installation, maintenance, and repair involving power and control circuits, conduit, cable, grounding, motor controls, power distribution, control panels, and associated wiring.
• Respond to equipment downtime, process disruptions, and plant outages by diagnosing and correcting PLC, HMI, instrumentation, VFD, SCADA, networking, and process-control issues.
• Use PLC programming software, ladder logic, HMI information, and operating parameters to understand equipment sequences, identify problems, and recommend logic or process-control improvements.
• Install, configure, calibrate, test, maintain, and troubleshoot sensors, transmitters, field devices, control valves, instrumentation, PLC hardware, and related automated equipment.
• Read electrical schematics, control drawings, P&IDs, loop diagrams, network drawings, and technical documentation to support troubleshooting and equipment improvements.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance, RCCA investigations, FPY improvement, equipment reliability, commissioning, startups, upgrades, modifications, and capital projects.
• Maintain accurate work-order feedback, calibration records, controls documentation, network information, equipment configurations, and current PLC and HMI program backups.
• Provide technical assistance and training to operations and maintenance personnel, communicate recurring issues and recommended solutions, and maintain clean and organized work areas.

**Technical Support**

This position serves as a technical leader and plantwide resource for electrical and control systems.

• Lead and support complex troubleshooting, calibration, testing, repair, outage response, equipment startup, and control-system recovery activities.
• Coach and train operations and maintenance personnel on electrical systems, instrumentation, PLCs, HMIs, drives, automation equipment, and effective troubleshooting practices.
• Review equipment operation, PLC logic, alarms, interlocks, permissives, timers, setpoints, and process conditions to identify recurring issues and improvement opportunities.
• Recommend electrical, programming, instrumentation, automation, reliability, and process-control improvements to plant leadership and project teams.
• Support applicable NEC and NFPA 70E requirements, plant standards, technical documentation, equipment upgrades, capital projects, and cross-functional problem-solving.

**What You Bring to the Team:**

• Associate degree in electrical technology, instrumentation, industrial automation, engineering technology, or a related field is preferred; a bachelor degree is beneficial but not required. Relevant industrial experience and demonstrated technical capability are key considerations.
• Five (5) or more years of practical electrical, instrumentation, automation, or controls experience in an industrial