Maintenance Electrician

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Electrician to join our team at a leading food manufacturing facility. As an Maintenance Electrician, you will be responsible for maintaining and repairing all electrical equipment in our facility, ensuring optimal operation and minimizing downtime. This role is crucial in maintaining the smooth operation of our production lines and ensuring quality and safety standards are met.

The primary role and responsibility is to provide mechanical and electrical support to the business units in maintaining, optimizing, assessing, troubleshooting, and repairing equipment and systems.

Essential Functions:

· Perform routine electrical maintenance on machinery and equipment, detecting and resolving any issues to ensure continuous operation

· Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair electrical malfunctions in equipment, utilizing testing equipment and tools

· Perform preventive maintenance tasks such as cleaning, lubricating, and adjusting equipment to ensure optimal performance

· Collaborate with production teams to prioritize and address electrical issues that may impact production schedules

· Install, upgrade, and maintain electrical systems, adhering to regulations and safety standards

· Conduct regular inspections to identify potential electrical hazards or malfunctions and take appropriate corrective actions

· Document all maintenance and repair activities, including parts used and time spent, ensuring accurate records are maintained for future reference

· Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor/manager.

Electrical:

· Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of basic electricity and electronics.

· Demonstrate an understanding of the National Electrical Code and NFPA 70-E

· Demonstrate ability to properly identify, select, and operate electrician's tools.

· Demonstrate an understanding of occupation-specific safety standards and procedures.

· Demonstrate ability to read and interpret diagrams, manuals, schematics or blueprints

· Demonstrate ability to plan layout of electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures consistent with specifications and local codes..

· Demonstrate ability to prepare sketches of location of wiring and equipment or follow blueprints/diagrams to determine location of equipment and conformance of safety codes.

· Demonstrate proper techniques used to measure, cut, bend, thread, assemble and install electrical conduits.

· Demonstrate ability to construct and fabricate other electrical parts, using hand tools and specifications.

· Demonstrate proper techniques used to install control and distribution apparatus, such as switches, outlets, relays, and circuit-breaker panels.

· Demonstrate proper technique used to pull wire through an electrical conduit.

· Demonstrate proper technique used to splice wires.

· Demonstrate ability to identify, select, and operate electrician's testing equipment, such as ohmmeters, ammeters, voltmeters, and continuity testers.

· Demonstrate proper techniques used to connect wiring to circuit breakers, transformers, lighting fixtures, thermostats, intercoms, signaling systems, power equipment, or other components.

· Demonstrate proper techniques used to connect power cables to equipment, such as electric ranges or motors, and to install grounding leads.

· Demonstrate proper technique used to check circuit connections to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components.

· Demonstrate ability to understand and make changes to PLC programs.

· Demonstrate an understanding of local area networks and PLC systems in the field of industrial controls.

· Demonstrate ability to operate, install, maintain, and troubleshoot AC & DC vector-type spindle drives, AC & DC servo axis drives, AC VFD and pulse width modulation (PWM) drives.

· Demonstrate ability to use control circuits, ladder logic, and Boolean logic.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

Associate degree or higher preferred - or equivalent hands on technical experience of 5 plus years in a related field

Experience:

· Minimum of 3 years of maintenance, electrical, and / or technical experience required.

· Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Autonomous Maintenance, and TPM preferred

· Experience with SAP-PM or another CMMS preferred

· Practical knowledge and relevant experience in a Food production environment is a plus

· Experience using precision instruments in either metric or English measurement systems

· Experience in troubleshooting and problem-solving technics

· Experience in reading schematics, prints, and electrical drawings.

Physical Requirements:

· Normally standing/walking with freedom of movement on a regular basis.

· Ability to work in a standing position for long periods of time (10 hours or more).

· Frequently lifting 60 lbs. 60+ lbs. require lift with a partner.

· Frequent physical activity requires walking, climbing, bending, standing, pushing, pulling, lifting and stooping.

Work Conditions:

· The work schedule is Monday through Friday and start times may begin as early as 5:00 AM and finish times as late as 6:00 PM (or until finish). At times, it may be required that work be outside of the normal work schedule, including weekends.

· Extended work hours may be required (evenings/weekends) until work is complete.

· Physical surroundings are in an indoor warehouse/manufacturing environment.

· Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required: nonskid safety shoes/boots, safety goggles, welding face mask/guard, work gloves and rubber gloves.

This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills or working conditions associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements, Chan and Chan Inc. reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary.

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed here) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case-by-case basis.