Overview
About BerryHarnessing the strength in our diversity and industry-leading talent of 40,000+ employees across more than 250 global locations, we develop, design, and manufacture innovative products with an eye toward the circular economy. At Berry Global, we believe in the extraordinary power of people and their unique talents, experiences, and perspectives that help shape a shared future of innovation, inspiration, and influence. Every employee at Berry Global has the opportunity to make their mark on our company and the world around us. Together, we champion a people-first culture that cultivates individual growth, diversity, and collaboration, unleashing our collective strengths to forge a path to greater success for our company, people, and planet. Are you ready to Make Your Mark at Berry? For more information, visit our website, or connect with us on LinkedIn or X.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, installation and upgrade machine controls for assigned manufacturing machinery and equipment
- Serving as automation technical resource for continuous improvement and capital projects efforts
- Identifying and initiating improvement projects that help meet site goals;
- Providing PLC and drive support for plant equipment
- Developing electrical design, schematics and drawings using AutoCAD
- Documenting electrical modifications made to equipment (i.e. updating schematics, drawings, work instructions, etc.)
- Interpreting mechanical design drawings for electrical requirements
- Reviewing, repairing and redesigning legacy code
- Troubleshooting issues with existing installed systems
- Preparing plan of corrective action for equipment identified as potential to fail
- Preparing cost justifications for projects
- Supporting and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement, quality, high performance and process excellence
- Remaining familiar with new equipment and assisting in training other technicians
- Ensuring compliance to all safety policies and procedures. Establishing, supporting and maintaining a “safety first” culture
- Accountable for employee safety through active engagement in safety activities and provide clear, consistent communication of safe work expectations
- Completing incident investigations, root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions accordingly in a timely and thorough manner
- Staying informed of process changes which may affect the normal operation of the equipment
Qualifications
- At least 3 years’ experience in the following:
- B.S. in Engineering – Electrical preferred.
- debugging and testing electro-mechanical systems and controls
- configuring HMIs for discrete manufacturing equipment
- programming and commissioning motion control systems including multi-axis robots and servos
- programming PLC based controls for manufacturing
- industrial automation with electro-mechanical and controls work
- machine vision applications a plus
- Must be able to organize work, prioritize tasks, maintain multiple projects and meet established deadlines.
- Effectively collaborate with mechanical/process engineers in the development of automated systems
- Must have strong working knowledge of computer programs such as Microsoft Excel and Word
