Manufacturing is alive and well in the U.S., and industrial automation in industry is providing a growing number of jobs for technically trained people who can build, program, integrate, service, maintain and operate PLCs. The St. Petersburg College Workforce Institute is proud to offer you training to become a Programmable Logic Controller, or “PLC”.

Programmable Logic Controller Jobs

Job opportunities for Programmable Logic Controller technicians include programming, packaging, power generation, mining, machine design and building automated systems. Other career options are maintenance, transportation, systems integration, component testing, technical sales, quality control, electrical, mechanical, computer, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing.

PLC Technicians also:

• install and repair industrial electronic equipment, including I/O networks, data highways and variable speed drives
• process control equipment
• write PLC programs for a wide variety of automated control systems, ranging from simple on-off controls to robotics

The 30-hour SPC Workforce Institute PLCs Certification Program is a hybrid program providing 12 hours of online courseware, 15 hours of intensive hands-on lab activities, and three hours of online preparation for the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI) exam.

Sign up for our upcoming PLC Courses here

11/8/17-12/10/17, 1-4 p.m. : http://bit.ly/2i80B5w

11/8/17-12/10/17, 5-8 p.m.: http://bit.ly/2yfAqhn

1/8/18-2/4/18, 1-4 p.m. : http://bit.ly/2yjvEki

1/8/18-2/4/18, 5-8 p.m.: http://bit.ly/2zj64L4

Did you also know that we can offer this training privately to your company or organization? Contact us at the Workforce Institute for more information by emailing workforce@spcollege.edu or calling (727) 341-4445.

For more information on upcoming engineering and manufacturing courses, please visit the Workforce Institute’s homepage.