Electrical Technician

Electrical Controls Technician – Murfreesboro, TN

As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for supporting production packaging and processing operations, sanitation and participation in startup, changeover, and shutdown of operating equipment.

Shift hours:

Currently Hiring 2nd shift

8-hour shifts

• 2:50pm to 11:30pm
• Ability and willingness to work overtime, any shift, including days, nights, weekends, holidays, and emergency events
• Plant operation is 24 hours a day, 7 days per week

Pay:

• Up to $42.04 per hour
• $36.78 - $37.85 per hour to start
• Shift differential- Night Shift $1:00 per hour when working between the hours of 11pm – 7am
• Shift differential - afternoon shift $0.50 per hour when working between 3pm-11pm

Benefits:

• 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 11 paid holidays
• Opportunity to earn 12 additional Paid Days Off
• Great paid time off benefits
• 401(k) match
• Health Insurance- Including medical, vision, dental and life
• And much more!

About our Location:

Located in beautiful Middle Tennessee, the Murfreesboro manufacturing site is comprised of two plants with over 1000 dedicated employees serving the Morning Foods and Meals & Baking Operating Units for General Mills. We operate in a dynamic business environment in a site that values safety, teamwork, accountability, responsiveness, and respect. We pride ourselves in serving the world by making food people love!

Our Products:

Toaster Strudel, Toaster Scrambles, Pie shells, Pillsbury canned dough product (crescent rolls, cinnamon rolls, breads), shapes cookies, tub cookies.

What your day will look like:

• Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
• Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
• Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
• CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
• Adhering to plant safety measures including LOTO and total energy isolation in a clean, Climate controlled, and stress-free work environment
• Reading and updating electrical and control schematics, piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Providing technical support/skills for equipment troubleshooting and controls/equipment modifications
• Performing uptime and downtime, preventative electrical maintenance
• Understanding, initiating, and participating in Root Cause Analysis (Why, Why, Breakdown Elimination)
• Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives to increase platform performance
• Assist in training new employees

What you have to offer:

• Minimum of a high school education or GED
• Tech school diploma and 2 years of experience in related field or equivalent experience in a related field preferred (familiarity with Rockwell and Allen Bradley components)
• Electrical/ Controls experience may include plant power distribution, plant equipment controls and plant electrical support
• Licensed Journeyman preferred
• Experience in a manufacturing/production environment preferred
• Must possess the ability to understand and effectively communicate with co-workers, supervisors and others in the workplace regarding work matters (our business is generally conducted in English).

Physical requirements:

• Must be able to lift up-to 50lbs
• Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling, and twisting over surfaces
• Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
• Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net, and gloves when required
• Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
• Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
• Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment
• Need to be able to work in a tobacco free environment
• Good understanding of electrical safety (low & high voltage), including arc flash training
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, and occasionally update them
• Must posses' advance knowledge of PLC's, SLC's, Logix 5000, as well as accompanying hardware components
• Ability to troubleshoot and repair issues with drives, sensors, measuring devices, and motors

Company Overview:

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.