Controls Technologist - Weekend daytime 12 hrs 7:00 am - 7:30 pm

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where we make life-saving products

You have deep knowledge of and experience with manufacturing processes. You understand the importance of building relationships, establishing order, and maintaining clear communication channels. As a Controls Technologist, you are a leader who is willing to listen and inspire others by your actions. You also appreciate the stability of a large multinational company with a long history of growth and success. Your team is an extension of your family, and you know how to support them as individuals while helping them achieve results as a team.

Your role as a Controls Technologist positions you to be directly involved in the physical production that enables Baxter to fulfill our mission to save and sustain lives. You manage the line between meeting production timelines and making quality products. As a manager, you are the trusted critical connection between the business and the workers on the floor.

Your Team

Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Each day, the manufacturing team strives to create quality products for our customers—and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to solve. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to create products with the customer's needs top-of-mind.

We build relationships with each other to get work done.

As a multidisciplinary environment, we are always learning from others and exchanging ideas. This means we are open to new opinions and encourage Baxter employees always to be their authentic selves and celebrate our various backgrounds.

A manufacturing facility is a high-energy environment with little downtime. We have robust processes that ensure our employees are safe and healthy—both mentally and physically. We pride ourselves on being top of the line regarding cleanliness and safety.

We provide opportunities for you to continue to learn through training, conferences, certifications, and support for advanced degrees. Growth from role to role or level to level is encouraged and is supported by management to ensure employees are consistently engaged with their work.

What you'll be doing

• Examine, diagnose, and correct operational problems related to the equipment in the process of manufacturing and plant building areas. Validate project to improve efficiency of the production machine.

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. List knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

• Designing and developing PLC programs to control and automate industrial processes.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and ensure successful implementation.

• Testing and troubleshooting PLC systems ensure proper functionality.

• Modifying and optimizing existing PLC programs to improve performance and efficiency (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).

• Documenting PLC programs, including code, wiring diagrams, and operating instructions.

• Must develop modification of components for manufacturing machines. Review specifications of blueprints of mechanical and electrical components of machines.

• Must understand logical sequence of any programmable controller. On new automated machine must be capable of troubleshooting pneumatic, electrical & mechanical systems.

• Must install new machines. Must ensure their proper operation in compliance with quality and manufacturing procedures.

• Must repair and provide maintenance to equipment, machinery by the utilization of sophisticated testing equipment, and specialized manuals.

• Must support production lines to maintain machines and manufacturing equipment working in excellent conditions.

• Disassemble equipment or machinery, disconnect controls, and remove defective parts so they may be repaired or substituted and perform preventive maintenance according to established standards.

• Must complete validation execution on new or existing machines.

• Prepare documentation of all changes performed on the equipment, including mechanical, electrical blueprints.

• Must provide training to machine operators and technicians.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Manually document (ex: checker chart) and/or electronically (ex: POMs) the required information to comply applicable procedures and specifications. This information includes but is not limited to process parameters, lots, amount of production, and others.

• Responsible for conducting EHS inspections to identify and correct safety hazards and environmental aspects. Follow the EHS applicable procedures and analyze EHS incidents (including near misses) to find causes and take corrective action.

• Ensure Overall Equipment Effectiveness metrics are met for the departments, including but not limited to downtime and scrap.

• Diagnosing and resolving issues in existing Human Machine Interface Systems (Factory Talk).

• Monitor and troubleshoot vision inspection systems, adjust and fine tune camera settings, lighting and software parameters for optimal performance under compliance like Insight Vision Explorer Cognex & Keyence.

What you'll bring

• Associate’s Degree in Electronics with 3 years' experience in Automated systems such as Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Robots, Vision Systems, etc. and/or Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology and 0-1 Years of experience.

• Able to read, write, speak and understand English at a good comprehensive level.

Physical demands:

• Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical demands requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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