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 preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience with industrial electronics and distributed control systems preferred.
• 3-5 years of power generation and distribution experience.

QUALIFICATIONS - PREFERRED

• Associate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• SAP Experience

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements:

• Flexible schedule and overtime may be required.
• Responds to urgent or emergency situations outside of normal working hours, as needed.
• Works in seated or standing positions for prolonged periods of time.
• May perform sustained manual activities at moderate levels of exertion including lifting and moving loads of up to fifty (50) pounds, climbing ladders / stairs and working on elevated platforms.
• Works and travels throughout surface plant environment of varied temperatures and humidity.
• Must be capable of wearing all required PPE and must be physically able to access all plant work areas.
• Uses full range of motion.

• Works in general office and surface manufacturing plant environment.

At Morton Salt, we work best when we work as a team, when we treat one another with dignity and respect, and value the unique contributions of others. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, national origin, sex, religion, color, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.