Automation Technician, 3rd Shift
Dee ZeeDes Moines, Iowa, United States
Posted March 11, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Dee Zee designs, manufactures, and distributes high‑performance truck accessories—including running boards, toolboxes, roof rails, tube products, and bed protection—that are used by major automakers as OEM parts and by consumers nationwide. Founded in 1977, the company’s Iowa‑based facilities cover over one million square feet of production, packaging, and logistics, and its engineers use advanced design software to create custom‑fit solutions for every vehicle model. Dee Zee’s commitment to sustainability is reflected in lean, eco‑friendly manufacturing, recycled materials, and partnerships with Sustainable Forestry Initiative‑certified suppliers. By combining durable, stylish design with rigorous quality standards, the brand has become a trusted partner for Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Subaru, and Toyota. The company’s focus on innovation, local sourcing, and green practices sets it apart in the competitive truck‑accessory market.
Job Description
Responsible for set-up and maintenance of all electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical systems on equipment used in the production process.
Requirements
- Examine work orders and converse with equipment operators
- Study blueprints, schematics, manuals, or other specifications
- Trouble shoot, repair, adjust, or calibrate industrial machines
- Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests
- Coordinate efforts with other workers
- Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks
- Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions
- Inspect components of industrial equipment
- Apply creative skills and related knowledge in electronics, mechanics, pneumatics
- Perform testing, start-up, and troubleshooting of PLC and industrial control systems
- Program robot for series of manipulator moves
- Design, program, & troubleshoot PLC, industrial control systems and relay control circuits
- Support the environmental policy with proactive process implementation
- Ability to stop the production line and/or prevent shipment of products