Equipment Automation Technician - night shift
Flex · Texas
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Controls
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level controls role at Flex (industrial) in Texas.
- Tools it names
- PLC, Robotics, Automation
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $60k–$91k.
Median of the low and high ends of 63 live postings that list pay, out of 1043 manufacturing technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 26 other live controls postings in Texas.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ PLC 59%
- ✓ Automation 59%
- ✓ Robotics 30%
- Root cause 22%
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Job Summary
Job Description
The experience we’re looking to add to our team
- ✓Computer skills
- ✓Experience with material handling, automation and/or robotics equipment
- ✓Electronic Assembly: schematics, PCB loading, mechanical assembly
- ✓Cables: crimping, harness assembly, connector/wire soldering, cable prepping
- ✓Testing: oscilloscope, cable & harness testing, troubleshooting, component testing, logic analyzer
- ✓Machine Operations: automatic component insertion equipment, surface mount insertion equipment, wave soldering
- ✓Mechanical & Electrical Tools: power air guns, taps & dies, alignment tools, measuring tools
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Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
What a typical day looks like
- •*Work Shift: 600pm-600am Sunday, Monday, Tuesday every other Saturday**
- •Maintain continuous system operation by adjusting, repairing, replacing, or modifying automation/robotic system components
- •Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems and components and return to serviceability
- •Ensure preventative maintenance of robotic and process support equipment are completed on a regularly scheduled basis.
- •Understanding of PLCs
- •Read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical diagrams including complex automated system drawings.
- •Collaborate with the automation team in the qualification process of automated systems.
- •Assists engineers in developing and designing hardware and software required for all automation solutions per specifications.
- •Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism.
- •Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
- •Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
- •Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
- •Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
- •Analyzes and implements corrective action reports and process tracking mechanisms.
- •Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.
- •Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry.
- •Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording and indicating instruments and equipment.
- •Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.
What you'll receive for the great work you provide
- •Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
- •Life Insurance
- •Short-term and Long-term Disability
- •Matching 401(k) Contributions
- •Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- •Tuition Reimbursement