Electrical Maintenance Technician

• →Reads and interprets equipment manuals, work orders, electrical schematics/diagrams to perform required maintenance and service.
• →Draws, upgrades, and updates electrical schematics as necessary.
• →Performs electrical skills to inspect, diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair electrical systems for plant equipment.
• →Installs and/or removes electric drive components as needed.
• →Runs pipe and wire to new and existing systems as needed.
• →Provides scheduled and emergency/unscheduled repairs of plant equipment/systems issues.
• →Communicates with others internal and external to the organization to obtain/provide information regarding electrical issues as needed.
• →Records pertinent labor information from work shift.

• →Assists mechanical staff as needed.
• →Performs other duties as assigned.

Note: Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

The duties of this position are to troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade equipment when required and provide preventive maintenance for the electrical components, processes, equipment, facilities and infrastructure within the facility.  This will also include the knowledge and ability to work on the sites' main electrical distribution and infrastructure. Experience with PLCs and high voltage (480V) required.  

The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.

Experience: Three to five years experience in an industrial environment is required with knowledge of equipment including but not limited to PLC's, variable speed drives, dc drives, motors, controls, generators, induction heating equipment, fire alarms, and high voltage (480V).

Work Hours: Must have ability to work the shift/number of hours in which duties need to be accomplished, including overtime, holidays and weekends, as necessary.  Call-ins may occur as needed.

Working Conditions: While performing the duties of this job, an employee is typically exposed to dust, loud noise, high places, confined spaces, very low and/or bright light, and outside weather conditions.   Primarily works alone but may work as part of a team working in close proximity to others and works in close proximity with equipment and electricity.

Safety Equipment: Safety equipment typically required while performing the duties of this job include a personal lockout/tagout lock, ANSI approved hardhat and safety glasses with side shields, and safety shoes/boots with steel toe protection.  Additional safety equipment is available for use if a situation arises where it becomes required depending on the assignment or if it is simply desired by the employee.

Safety Training: A new employee hired to perform the duties of this position is to be provided New Employee Training by a qualified individual, which consists of eight hours of classroom training and 16 hours of on the job training.  It will include, but is not limited to, the following: forklift/mobile equipment operation and certification/licensing, hazard communication, hearing conservation, respiratory protection, electrical safety, lock out/tag out, personal protective equipment, bloodborne pathogens, fire fighting/extinguishers, machine safety, confined spaces, reporting of hazardous conditions, accidents, injuries, near-miss and property damage incidents, evacuation/emergency procedures, first aid, back injury prevention, and job/work area procedures. 

Upon transferring to perform the duties of this position for the first time an employee is to be provided New Task Training by a qualified individual until the employee adequately understands the contents of the training, which include job/work area procedures and related topics.  Additionally, an employee must be provided further training if a job duty/task has changes that will affect the health and safety aspects of that employee’s position.

Additional refresher safety training will be required as management deems appropriate or as dictated by MSHA/OSHA regulations.

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