Maintenance Electrician

About the Role

Responsible for troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of existing electrical systems using electrical, mechanical, and processing skills. The Maintenance Electrician performs preventative and reactive maintenance on all electrical equipment and buildings.

Responsibilities

• Follows all established safety and good manufacturing practices (GMP) for the assigned area, company policies and procedures, and recognized practices.
• Reads and interprets drawings, blueprints, schematics, and electrical code specifications to determine the layout of industrial electrical equipment installations.
• Installs, examines, replaces, or repairs electrical wiring, receptacles, switch boxes, conduits, feeders, fiber-optic and coaxial cable assemblies, and other electrical components.
• Tests electrical and electronic equipment and components for continuity, current, voltage, and resistance.
• Maintains, repairs, installs, and tests switchgear, transformers, switchboard meters, regulators, and reactors.
• Maintains, repairs, tests, and installs electrical motors, generators, alternators, industrial storage batteries, and hydraulic and pneumatic electrical control systems.
• Troubleshoots, maintains, and repairs industrial control systems and related devices including Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), distributed control systems, servos, drives, and robotic controllers.
• Conducts preventive maintenance programs and keeps accurate maintenance records.
• May install, maintain, and calibrate industrial instrumentation and related devices as required.
• Assists and trains production employees in the proper operation and maintenance of machinery.

Requirements

• Two-year Associate's degree in an electrical-related field; additional technical certifications and training applicable to industrial maintenance electrical systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of four to five years of industrial maintenance electrician experience.
• Sense of urgency, accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation, and focus to improve the business.
• Ability to work promptly and regularly, take direction, work well with others, handle stress, concentrate, and react to change productively.

Physical Demands

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, and equipment using feet, legs, hands, and arms. Requires good body agility.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist. Requires full use of lower extremities and back muscles.
• Crouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Standing for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving over long distances to accomplish tasks.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including detailed or important spoken instructions.
• Hearing: Perceiving sounds at 40 dB or greater at 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, and 2000 Hz, with or without correction, to receive detailed information through oral communication.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements of the arms, hands, and/or fingers.
• Vision: Capable of preparing and analyzing data, figures, and seeing small defects at close distances.
• Exertion: Medium work – exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

Working Conditions

• Subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions.
• May be subject to extreme heat (temperatures above 100°F for periods of more than one hour).
• Subject to noise and vibrations (oscillating movements of extremities or whole body).
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
• Exposure to oils and other cutting fluids (air and/or skin contact).

Pay

$29.32 - $43.11 per hour