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About The Company

As the Pacific Northwest’s leading contract packer and co-packer of ready-to-drink beverage products for nearly a century, Portland Bottling Company provides flexibility and responsiveness, with unmatched regional and national reach, as well as the scale to handle the needs of any and all customers. PBC offers 24/7, end-to-end solutions with state-of-the-art equipment, in-line monitoring, and automated technologies for next level quality, reliability, efficiency and yield.

Our mission at Portland Bottling Company is to act as one team, committed to providing real differentiated value to our customers’ business by delivering the most trusted and highest quality solutions in the industry. That comes from providing an environment for our employees that is safe and promotes growth, development, and success.

Job Summary

The Controls Specialist will work with various departments to improve, maintain and support control systems. The team member will act as a technical lead, and have hands on involvement in manufacturing information system, programming, editing, troubleshooting, maintaining PLC programs and data acquisition/formatting. Other functions such as working with the Control Engineer in software architecture design, development of software applications, and integration into enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

Minimum Requirements

• Proven ability to create, edit, test, troubleshoot rungs of a program file
• Demonstrated ability to work on field devices such as temperature, pressure, and flow instrumentation, along with many different types of variable frequency drives
• Associate degree or Certificate in related field or a combination of education and experience totaling,
• 2 years’ experience in field or similar manufacturing environment
• 2 years’ experience managing projects (installation and improvement of automated production lines)
• Proficiency in Allen Bradley and Siemens programming
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application-Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or a combination of education and experience totaling 4 years’ experience in field or similar manufacturing environment
• 4 years’ experience of project management
• 1 – 2 years electrical engineer / or electrician troubleshooting and reading diagram experience
• High proficiency in Allen Bradley and Siemens programming
• Basic understanding of electronics, VFD’s and industrial automation components
• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
• Experience working with Krones equipment
• Experience in a bottling or similar beverage production work environment

Portland Bottling Company offers our employees a wide variety of comprehensive rewards and benefits including

• Competitive pay
• Medical including Prescription and Vision
• Dental
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• 401K with company match
• Generous pay for time off programs including paid personal time off (PTO), paid floating holidays, paid bereavement and paid jury duty
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Tuition reimbursement
• Targeted learning and development opportunities

All within a positive and friendly work environment.

Our people go above and beyond for our customers. That’s why Portland Bottling Company offers a comprehensive, family-friendly package of compensation, benefits, programs, services, and support to ensure our team members can love what they do at work and enjoy their lives outside of it.

If you think you have what it takes to be part of a company that strives to create a working environment that stimulates team spirit, passion, engagement, and achievement, we want to hear from you!

PBC values diversity in its work force and is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.