Senior Automation Controls & Maintenance Technician

Aquabiliti

Nashville, TN

Pay: $70,000-$85,000/yr

Shift: Full time

**Senior Automation Controls & Maintenance Technician**

**Salary:** Commensurate with Experience

**Position Summary**

Troubleshoots, maintains and improves automated production and packaging equipment in regulated manufacturing (food, medical device and pharmaceutical). Keeps equipment safe, reliable and compliant through preventive and corrective maintenance, CMMS planning and continuous improvement.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and controls problems on automated production and packaging lines.
• Diagnose and repair Allen Bradley and Automation Direct PLCs and HMIs, VFDs, sensors, servo actuators and vision systems (Cognex, Keyence).
• Support industrial robots and palletizers (FANUC, Kawasaki, Epson SCARA, Universal Robots), including pick-and-place cells and grippers.
• Maintain packaging equipment: vertical and rotary form-fill-seal baggers, multihead weighers, cartoners, case erectors and sealers, tray and blister sealers, and coders and printers (Videojet, Linx, Zebra).
• Maintain process equipment such as ultrasonic and laser welders, injection molding machines, impulse sealers, vacuum formers and cutting systems.
• Work on electrical control systems from 110–480 VAC (single- and three-phase) and 5–24 VDC.
• Read and interpret electrical diagrams, schematics and mechanical blueprints.
• Perform preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance (including thermal imaging), and document all work in the CMMS (SAP, MAXIMO, QT9).
• Do setups, changeovers and SMED activities to reduce downtime.
• Follow LOTO, EHS and OSHA safety requirements during all equipment work.
• Support sanitation and allergen procedures and monitor critical control points such as X-ray inspection.
• Support new product and equipment validation (IQ/OQ/PQ, test cases, Gage R&R) and equipment transfers.
• Lead or join continuous improvement, cost-savings and Poka-Yoke projects using Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, TPM and 5S.
• Do root cause analysis (5 Whys, Ishikawa, FMEA) and support CAPA and nonconformance investigations.
• Plan and schedule maintenance work, manage the backlog, and report KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance).
• Manage MRO and OEM spare parts inventory: min/max levels, criticality classification, quotes and purchase orders.
• Create and update SOPs, PM job plans, work instructions and other controlled documents.
• Train and mentor technicians and operators, and coordinate outside contractors and suppliers.
• Support internal and external audits (FDA, BSI, ANVISA, SQF) as the maintenance subject matter expert.

**Qualifications**

• Associate degree in Electronics or equivalent technical training.
• 5+ years of industrial maintenance and automation experience in regulated manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of GMP, GDP, ISO 13485 and FDA 21 CFR Part 820.
• Experience working in Class 7 and Class 8 clean rooms.
• Programming software: RSLogix 500/5000, RSLinx, RSView Studio, DirectSoft, In-Sight Explorer.
• Computer skills: Microsoft Office (Excel), Power BI, SAP, MAXIMO, eMaint and quality systems (Master Control, Windchill, QT9).
• Forklift and scissor lift certified.
• Fluent in English.

Pay: $70,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person