Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) Technician

About the role

Your Job Georgia-Pacific in Brewton, AL is currently seeking an Electrical & Instrumentation Technician with a strong instrument background for our Brewton, AL facility.

Responsibilities

• Perform electrical maintenance tasks relative to the maintenance department’s workload
• Preventative and corrective maintenance work orders
• Maintain the cleanliness of the work environment
• Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment
• Work collaboratively with the production and maintenance teams to achieve uptime and reliability goals
• Work any shift, including holidays and weekends, and work overtime as needed
• Rotate on-call duties

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• Five years or more of E&I troubleshooting experience OR two-year technical degree with three years or more of E&I troubleshooting experience
• Experience troubleshooting electrical controls, PLC’s, A/C and D/C motors, motor controllers and drives
• Experience troubleshooting and repairing hydraulics, pneumatics, and instrumentation systems: Pressure transmitters, level transmitters, flow meters (orifice plate and flow tubes), analyzers (pH, ORP, Oxygen, conductivity), temperature transmitters, and thermocouples
• Experience reading technical drawings and schematics
• Experience rebuilding, troubleshooting, and calibrating control valves, actuators, positioners, and transducers
• Experience with control sensing devices such as proximity sensors, photo eyes, lasers, etc. as well as environmental monitoring systems such as the thermal oxidizer, opacity monitors and flares

Qualifications

• Three years or more of industrial electrician experience
• Three years or more of experience working with process control instrumentation and field sensors

Skills

• Strong instrument background
• Electrical and instrumentation skills
• PLC troubleshooting
• Motor and drive troubleshooting
• Instrumentation systems troubleshooting
• Control logic troubleshooting
• Schematics reading
• Equipment troubleshooting and repair
• Control valve, actuator, positioner, and transducer troubleshooting
• Environmental monitoring systems troubleshooting

Benefits

Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Pay

The starting pay rate is $43.11 hourly.

Schedule

The regular schedule is 7:00 am-3:30 pm, Monday-Friday. Works any shift, including holidays and weekends, and works overtime as needed and rotates on-call duties.