Maintenance - Controls Background

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About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible™ products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste and mitigate loss, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency and better connect brands and consumers. We design and develop labeling and functional materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience.

Serving industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 35,000 employees in nearly 60 countries. Our reported sales in 2025 were $8.9 billion. Learn more at

The Controls Technician will be responsible for the repair and upkeep of equipment such as electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems, electro‑mechanical control systems, and programmable logic control (PLC) based control systems. Activities include both planned and predictive maintenance and breakdown repair. This position will report into the Maintenance Team Leader and will support our Reflective site in Painesville, Ohio. In this role, you will work Building 7, A Shift, 7AM to 3PM, Mon‑Fri.

Position activities may include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure compliance with all environmental, health and safety procedures, policies, and practices.

• Locate and diagnose failures, replacing defective components, and perform troubleshooting using standard equipment, detailed drawings, diagrams, sketches, specifications, prints, manuals, and verbal and/or written instructions.

• Repair and install complex electrical equipment, including motors, switches, switchboards, electrical mechanisms, automated machines, controls, panels, relays, circuit breakers, communication systems and alarms.

• Assisting engineers in diagnosing problems and suggesting corrective action for equipment including PLC, motor controls, VFD, instrumentation, and graphical terminal interfaces.

• Perform and maintain control system programming file backups at designated frequency to ensure control system programming can be reestablished if there is a catastrophic failure.

• Program control system logic changes and HMI updates as required for plant MOC requests and capital projects.

• Ensure adherence to preventive maintenance systems for all production equipment including verification of predictive and preventative maintenance activities for all production equipment and systematic preventative maintenance, including electrical or mechanical adjustments, inspections and minor repairs.

• Act as department champion for TPM activities.

• Participate as process controls representative in commissioning activities.

• Act as a resource for mechanics in identification and correction of potential equipment problems and troubleshooting and maintaining equipment.

• Properly perform all necessary maintenance tasks to production lines (i.e. rebuilds, welding, valve, pipe and solenoid selection, etc.).

• Actively assist with planning/scheduling and storeroom staff for tracking work orders, parts, and purchase requisitions.

• Identify and assist in the implementation of projects as required.

• Other tasks as assigned.

• High school diploma or equivalent (GED) or 3+ years of relevant manufacturing work experience.

• 3 - 5 years previous experience in industrial manufacturing.

• Electrical certification/ training or 3-5 years experience.

• PLC certification/training or 3 - 5 years experience with proficiency in using PLCs to troubleshoot and diagnose root cause.

• Good interpersonal skills, mathematical aptitude, mechanical/technical skills and aptitude and logical problem solving skills necessary.

• Hydraulics, controls, electrical, mechanical, welding, electrical, PLC’s, and pneumatics…