Industrial Electrical Maintenance Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Pay:

$20 - $40/hour

Summary: 

Performs maintenance, installation, repair and troubleshooting of electrical systems by  applying electrical principles. 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Repairing and replacing defective parts in controllers, switchboards, switches, conductors, and other electrical fixtures.  
• Installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical components of machinery and equipment, including transformers, generators exciters, and hydraulic and pneumatic devices.  
• Performing preventive repair and maintenance of field electrical systems, devices, equipment and components.  
• Testing solid state circuitry to find defective parts in digital and analog equipment, specifically cell prox circuits for frequency and 4-20 milliamp control circuits. 
• Installing enhancements and major upgrades to electrical subsystems.  
• Designing and modifying motor power control equipment circuits, reading and interpreting blueprints, wiring diagrams and schematics.  
• Preparing schedules and coordinating activities with other divisions and sections.  
• Planning and laying work orders or work from instructions, using sketches, blueprints, and drawings.  
• Ensure the accuracy and completion of all preventive maintenance duties.  

Initiative: 

• Improve management of parts to find a balance between availability, cost and stock levels. 
• Promote operations in a safe, efficient and professional manner. 
• Identify solutions to unique and complex problems 

Physical Demands:  

• Ability to frequently lift up to 50 lbs. Able to lift 65 lbs from floor to shoulder level occasionally. 
• Ability to occasionally lift, carry, push or pull up to 100 lbs. 
• Requires frequent bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, climbing, balancing, lifting, carrying, and reaching or handling with arms, hands and fingers. Also crawling and working in narrow spaces. 
• Requires frequent repetitive movements, i.e. hammering, turning wrenches, or used screwdrivers. 
• Manual dexterity sufficient to work with fingers. 
• Normal vision with or without corrective lenses. 
• Exposed to cold, heat, noise mechanical/electrical fume or odor. 
• Will be required on occasion to work more than 8 hours on one shift