Electrician

Electrician

Chamberlain - MERIDEN, CT 06451

The position will be responsible for electrical maintenance, repair, and installation of a variety of production and support equipment as well as perform typical industrial electrical work in accordance with standard practices of the electrical trade. Assignments are received in the form of oral instruction, sketches, blueprints and/or worn or broken parts. Work methods and procedures are determined by the employee and are performed independently or under the general supervision of the maintenance supervisor. The individual must also have ability to perform minor and miscellaneous work outside the realms of the electrical trade. The position requires strong troubleshooting skills to diagnose and correct electrical problems of food manufacturing equipment and automated equipment utilizing VFD's and PLCs.

Essential Job Functions:

• Responsible for overall management of entire plant electrical system including all equipment and machinery.
• Frequently anticipates and solves problems and establishes a preventive maintenance program.
• Perform routine maintenance on electrical systems throughout the entire facility.
• Maintains inventory of spare or replacement parts and maintains a schedule of service to ensure efficient operation.
• Responsible for ensuring equipment and machinery wiring meets safety standards and are operating at maximum efficiency.
• Responsible for communication to critical personnel ranging any procedures related to safety, operation of electrical system.
• Install and troubleshoot new equipment
• Install electrical feeds to new or relocated equipment
• Coordinate electrical maintenance and repair performed by outside contractors
• Ensure key spare part inventories are maintained
• Ensure all schematics, drawings, manuals are maintained
• Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality service.
• Other duties include but are not limited to:
• Repair / replace electrical drops in production areas
• Add / remove / relocate drops to eliminate extension cords
• Map entire electrical system for both buildings
• Trace circuits
• Label electrical panels and end device
• Document all panels and update as changes are made
• Check and verify phase rotation on every drop throughout facility
• Ensure each machine is wired correctly
• Eliminate phase issues within the plant
• Perform daily checks on machine electrical systems to ensure safe work environment.
• Run conduit and wire as needed
• Compile materials list and place orders with local distributors
• Compose and verify LOTO written procedures
• Troubleshoot PLC programming

Job Safety Requirements: Safety is our top priority. Supervisors and leads are responsible to promote a safe and healthy work environment. Accountabilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensuring unsafe acts or conditions are reported promptly for corrective action.
• Team members are empowered to stop a task if there are safety concerns so that corrective action can be taken.
• You are engaged with routinely auditing your processes, and environment.
• You are engaged with the safety committee to continuously improve our plant safety performance.

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years experience as an electrician in a manufacturing environment.
• Electrical license and/or relevant technical education.
• Ability to solve complex problems independently in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Ability to understand complex machinery and equipment.
• Ability to use ladders, scaffolding, and/or a scissor lift while performing job duties.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
• Ability to see and traverse entire plant for inspections for safety and quality control.
• Ability to walk and stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to bend, stoop, kneel and occasionally lift equipment or supplies.
• Ability to reach, feel, handle equipment.
• Ability to perform repetitive motions using hands, wrists and feet.
• Ability to comply with complex safety rules, storage, removal and record keeping.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to work indoors and outdoors.