Automation Technician

Pay Rate: $26 - $32 per hour
Location: Warwick, RI
Duration: 6 Months

Summary:

• Perform vital maintenance, diagnosis, and repair of complex baggage conveyor systems and related equipment at airport facilities.
• Ensure safety and reliability through technical precision and adaptability to diverse working conditions.

Responsibilities:

• Diagnose, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain baggage conveyor systems, controls, and related equipment.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs).
• Perform both scheduled and emergency maintenance on mechanical and electrical systems.
• Execute mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic repairs as needed.
• Accurately document maintenance activities and input data into the CMMS system.
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to carry out maintenance tasks.
• Complete all preventive (PM) and corrective (CM) maintenance logs and paperwork.
• Drive and operate various equipment, including golf carts, company vehicles, and forklifts.
• Support operations by quickly responding to and clearing baggage jams.
• Comply with company safety program and trainings.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Ability to obtain necessary security clearance.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in maintenance operations.
• Available to work 1st, 2nd, or 3rd shift, including weekends and holidays.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with 480V and 3-phase motors.
• Skilled in mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic repair.
• Familiarity with airport operations.
• Intermediate understanding of PLC control systems.
• Ability to read blueprints and electrical schematics.
• Experience with passenger boarding bridges and conveyance systems.
• Proficient in word processing, spreadsheets, project management tools, and CMMS software.

Physical Demands:

• Regularly required to stand, sit, walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to climb or balance and work in small spaces. Ladder work required.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to work in outside weather conditions on an airport ramp around aircraft and in confined areas of baggage conveyor systems.
• Specific vision abilities required include good, close proximity vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Good hand/eye coordination is required.

Work Environment:

• Similar to airport operation with vehicular traffic.
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, outside weather conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, cold, and vibration.
• Noise level is usually loud.
• Work on an airport ramp around aircraft and heavy equipment.