Body Shop Maintenance Engineer (PLC)
Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC · Ladson, SC
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Controls
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 5 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level controls role at Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC (industrial) in Ladson, SC. Cutting-edge training and promising career opportunities will help you to foster and expand your professional skill set as well as your individual strengths.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- TPM, OEE, Root cause, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), PLC, Robotics
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How this role compares
Against 17 other live controls postings in South Carolina.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ PLC 78%
- ✓ Automation 78%
- ✓ Team leadership 39%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 39%
- ✓ Root cause 33%
- ✓ Robotics 28%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Pick 2–3 people on the Controls team at Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC
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Send a short, curious note
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
Full description from Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLCAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
Develops and implements maintenance and reliability strategies to improve equipment safety, availability, performance, maintainability, lifecycle cost, and operational stability.
Leads complex equipment troubleshooting and root cause analysis using structured problem-solving methods such as 8D, fault-tree analysis, 5 Why, and failure-data analysis to establish sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
Develops and improves preventive, predictive, condition-based, and total productive maintenance programs, including task content, frequency, technical standards, spare-parts requirements, and acceptance criteria
Monitors and improves maintenance performance through Technical Availability, OEE, MTTR, MTBF, recurring-failure analysis, maintenance cost, backlog, and equipment lifecycle risks.
Provides technical direction and escalation support to maintenance technicians during complex production interruptions, equipment recovery, breakdown analysis, and implementation of containment measures.
Ensures compliance with machine-safety and control-system
requirements
when implementing PLC, robot, HMI, network, drive, or equipment modifications. Changes shall follow approved risk-assessment, validation, testing, documentation, and authorization processes.
Develops scopes of work and technical specifications for control-system upgrades, equipment modifications, new installations, external programming support, and automation projects.
Supports equipment installation, commissioning, debugging, acceptance testing, production ramp-up, and technical handover, ensuring delivery of validated software, electrical drawings, network documentation, backups, spare-parts lists, maintenance instructions, and training materials.
Coordinates contractors, system integrators, OEMs, and suppliers performing PLC, robot, electrical, controls, and automation activities.
Reviews and validates technical documentation, including electrical drawings, PLC architecture, I/O lists, network topology, safety circuits, sequence descriptions, HMI screens, alarm lists, software backups, and equipment manuals.
Provides technical coaching and knowledge transfer to maintenance technicians and less-experienced engineers in PLC diagnostics, control systems, robot interfaces, structured troubleshooting, and internal technical standards.
Drives continuous-improvement and cost-reduction initiatives without compromising equipment safety, product quality, maintainability, reliability, or compliance with internal standards
PLC
Responsibilities
Troubleshoots PLC-controlled production equipment, including PLC hardware, distributed I/O, HMI, industrial
networks, safety systems, drives, sensors, actuators, sequence controls, permissive, interlocks, alarms, and
interfaces to higher-level production systems.
Analyzes and modifies PLC and HMI software using approved internal programming structures, libraries, interfaces, naming conventions, visualization standards, and change-control processes
Serves as the technical specialist for PLC, controls, automation, and equipment-integration systems, ensuring
equipment and maintenance activities comply with applicable safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory
requirements.
Supports robot systems integration and industrial communication, including controller interfaces, operating
sequences, handshakes, process interlocks, equipment status, fault diagnostics, and safety-related interface
troubleshooting.
Maintains software integrity and recoverability by ensuring validated backups, documented software versions,
controlled online changes, revision histories, recovery procedures, and restoration testing for critical automation
assets.
Qualifications
Supervisory
Responsibilities
Provides direct and indirect oversight of suppliers and maintenance team members based on shop-floor needs and project requirements.
Financial
Responsibilities
The position supports cost control, project estimates, technical bid evaluations, and cost-reduction initiatives
within assigned responsibilities.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Automation
Engineering, Computer Engineering with
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Job Overview: The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for improving the safety, reliability, availability, and performance of production equipment and automated manufacturing systems. This position develops and implements maintenance strategies, supports preventive and predictive maintenance programs, leads complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis activities, and drives continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and improve equipment effectiveness. The role provides technical support for manufacturing systems, controls, and automation technologies while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and
operational standards. The Maintenance Engineer serves as a technical liaison between maintenance, production, engineering, contractors, and suppliers and supports equipment upgrades, new installations, commissioning activities, and capital projects.