Job role: Maintenance & Automation Analyst
Location: Whitsett, NC
Contract Type: 24months on W2
Shift Timings: 1st Shift: 6.30am-3:00pm & 2nd Shift: 3:30pm to 12:00 midnight
Pay rate: 21/hr & 23.10/hr
Position Summary
The Maintenance & Automation Analyst is responsible for supporting equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, downtime reduction, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement across manufacturing operations.
This position will support a broad range of equipmentfrom stationary assembly and production systems to more advanced automation, including AGVs, robotic systems, Universal Robots (cobots), PLC-controlled equipment, conveyors, and integrated manufacturing systems.
The individual will be expected to combine strong electrical, mechanical, controls, and troubleshooting capabilities with the ability to analyze equipment performance, lead downtime recovery activities, manage preventive maintenance requirements, and clearly communicate technical issues and corrective actions to Engineering, Production, and Management.
Key Responsibilities
1. Equipment Maintenance & Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot and repair mechanical, electrical, controls, and automation-related equipment issues.
- Support equipment ranging from standard stationary assembly equipment to advanced automated manufacturing systems.
- Diagnose failures using electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, PLC information, equipment manuals, alarms, and other technical documentation.
- Support AGVs, robotic equipment, Universal Robots, conveyors, sensors, motors, drives, safety systems, and PLC-controlled equipment.
- Lead or actively support equipment recovery during production downtime events.
2. Preventive Maintenance (PM)
- Perform regularly scheduled preventive maintenance on production and automation equipment.
- Develop, establish, and improve equipment PM requirements and schedules.
- Ensure PM activities are properly documented within the applicable maintenance management system.
- Review PM effectiveness and recommend changes based on equipment history, failure modes, and manufacturer recommendations.
- Identify critical spare-parts requirements based on equipment risk and historical failures.
3. Downtime / Equipment Reliability
- Maintain and analyze equipment downtime and reliability information.
- Support reporting and improvement activities related to:
- Equipment Uptime / Downtime
- MTTR – Mean Time to Repair
- MTBF – Mean Time Between Failures
- PM Completion
- Repeat Equipment Failures
- Spare-Parts Availability
- Perform basic Pareto and trend analysis to identify recurring equipment losses.
- Develop and support corrective actions to reduce repeat failures and improve equipment reliability.
4. Downtime Event Leadership
- Take an active leadership role during significant equipment downtime events.
- Coordinate troubleshooting activities between Maintenance, Engineering, Production, vendors, and other support organizations as required.
- Establish clear problem statements, containment actions, recovery plans, and escalation requirements.
- Provide timely and accurate status updates through the appropriate Management escalation structure.
- Support root-cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are documented following major downtime events.
5. Electrical / Controls / PLC Support (Preferred but not required)
- Read and understand electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, control diagrams, and equipment documentation.
- Troubleshoot sensors, motors, relays, switches, power supplies, safety circuits, drives, and other industrial electrical components.
- Possess working knowledge of PLCs and industrial control systems.
- Support PLC-controlled equipment and robotic applications.
- Assist with basic PLC troubleshooting, I/O validation, fault identification, and recovery.
- Work safely around industrial electrical and automated equipment.
6. Robotics & Automation (Preferred but not required)
- Support automated manufacturing equipment utilizing Universal Robots and other robotic/automation platforms.
- Assist with robot troubleshooting, recovery, PM, and basic programming/configuration activities.
- Support implementation and ongoing maintenance of AGV and automated material-handling systems.
- Work with internal Engineering teams and equipment suppliers during equipment installation, commissioning, validation, and production ramp-up.
Required Experience
- 3+ years of industrial maintenance, manufacturing engineering, controls, automation, or related technical experience preferred.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting mechanical and electrical manufacturing equipment.
- Experience performing and/or developing preventive maintenance activities.
- Experience troubleshooting production downtime in a manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of PLC-controlled equipment.
- Experience reading electrical schematics and technical drawings.
- Strong mechanical troubleshooting and repair skills.
- Experience working with industrial automation equipment.
Education Preferred:
- Associate or bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation, Industrial Technology, Engineering Technology, or related technical discipline.
- Equivalent combination of technical education, industrial certifications, and significant hands-on maintenance / automation experience.
