Electrical Technician
Your Job
Your Job Guardian Glass is looking for a motivated Electrical Technician with a passion for safety to join our team in Geneva, NY!
About the Role
The Electrical Technician is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, calibrating, and repairing plant instrumentation, control systems, and related electrical components. This role ensures safe, reliable, and efficient operations in a 24/7 manufacturing environment, supporting continuous improvement, equipment reliability, and plant safety while working a 12-hour rotating shift.
Responsibilities
- Follow all plant safety policies, procedures, and lockout/tagout (LOTO) requirements.
- Identify and mitigate instrumentation and control system hazards.
- Support regulatory and safety audits as needed.
- Troubleshoot, repair, and calibrate field instrumentation (pressure, flow, temperature, level, analytical devices).
- Diagnose and repair control loops, sensors, transmitters, and final control elements.
- Perform PLC and HMI troubleshooting (inputs/outputs, basic logic diagnostics).
- Support VFDs, motor control circuits, and associated control wiring.
- Execute PMs and calibration schedules per CMMS requirements.
- Identify potential failure modes and recommend improvements.
- Avoid unplanned downtime and improve equipment reliability.
- Collaborate with operations, engineering, and reliability teams.
- Maintain accurate records in the CMMS.
- Read and interpret P&IDs, loop diagrams, electrical schematics, and control narratives.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED (Technical degree or certification preferred).
- 3+ years of industrial instrumentation and controls experience.
- Working knowledge of: Industrial sensors and transmitters, Control valves and actuators, VFD/Motor starter driven systems, Electrical troubleshooting.
Qualifications
- Associate degree in Instrumentation, Electronics, or related field.
- Experience with common PLC platforms (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, etc.).
- CMMS experience (SAP, Maximo, Infor, etc.).
- Experience in manufacturing or process industries.
- ISA certification or equivalent.
- Mechatronics certification.
- Working knowledge of PLC-based control systems.
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt (focused on process control improvement).
Skills
- High School Diploma or GED (Technical degree or certification preferred).
- 3+ years of industrial instrumentation and controls experience.
- Working knowledge of: Industrial sensors and transmitters, Control valves and actuators, VFD/Motor starter driven systems, Electrical troubleshooting.
Benefits
Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. 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. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.
Pay
Pay: $35 - $45 per hour
Schedule
Shift: 12-Hour Rotating Shift (Days/Nights, Weekends & Holidays as scheduled)
Company Information
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions.
As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products, and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation, and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices, and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.
If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.