Controls Tech

Morton Salt is an iconic company with a strong heritage and a bright future. Since 1848, we have been improving lives and enhancing everyday moments -- at home, at work and virtually everywhere in between. We help unlock the flavors in food, make roads and sidewalks safer, improve the water in baths, pools, and homes, and keep businesses and industries running. We are a dedicated team who constantly strives to do better together, and we are passionate about building a sustainable future for our company, the communities in which we operate, and the world around us. By joining our team, you will contribute to producing and delivering every form of salt that enhances everyday life. Job Summary: The Controls Tech plays a critical role in day-to-day optimization, and reliability of plant processes and control systems. Duties and Responsibilities: - Maintain a safe working environment by understanding, executing, and supporting the company's EH&S policies and procedures. Support a proactive safety mindset by participating in department assessments and meetings and by encouraging employees and contractors to identify, correct, and coach one another in the area of safety. - Provide daily process and control system engineering support to assist with the troubleshooting, maintenance, and training of plant production issues. - Serve as the plant process, instrumentation, and control subject matter expert (SME) during capital improvement and maintenance expense projects. - Collaborate with maintenance and operations personnel to optimize the production process by identifying and implementing improvement opportunities to distributed control system (DCS) and programmable logic controllers (PLC), HMI's and Fanuc robots. - Programing, troubleshooting and documentation of Allen-Bradley PLC controls, HMIs, and instrumentation - Provide process and equipment reliability support by recommending procedures and maintenance schedules for instrumentation and control systems. - Support the site during maintenance turnarounds by managing multiple contractors, internal maintenance, and working extended hours. - Serve as the site expert for all power distribution equipment including switchgear, transformers, and distribution panels, including upgrade of equipment. - Research, design, trial, and implement new process technologies and control system strategies. QUALIFICATIONS - REQUIRED High school diploma or GED. Journeyman Electrician or 10 years of controls experience in manufacturing. [3-5 years of experience with process control loop design, configuration, and optimization prefe ]{segoe="" ui",="" tahoma,="" sans-serif"=""}