Controls Technologist - Work Shift - Weekend Sat-Sun 12 hrs 7 : 00am-7 : 30pm

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission.

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

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Disclaimer statement

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Data Analysis & Analytics (Not Applicable (0)), First Principles Thinking (Learning / Doing (1)), Lean & six sigma process knowledge (Not Applicable (0)), Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (Not Applicable (0)), Manufacturing & Process Knowledge (Learning / Doing (1)), Modeling & Simulation (Not Applicable (0)), Process Automation (Learning / Doing (1)), Product / Project Management (Learning / Doing (1)), Smart Operations / Industry 4.0 (Learning / Doing (1)), Software Integration (API, Data Pipelines) (Not Applicable (0))

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)