Industrial Electrican

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Job Summary

Join our team in Burgettstown, PA, a vibrant community with abundant opportunities for professional growth. Our manufacturing plant is seeking skilled professionals to join our team. This is an hourly position in a unionized setting, and applicants must be willing to work rotating shifts and weekends, as required.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, repair, replace, install, wire, adjust, and maintain all electrical equipment in the plant.
• Perform mechanical repairs to cranes and other equipment related to electrical service.
• Receive instructions, wiring diagrams, and specifications for scheduled and emergency repairs, installations, and inspections.
• Inspect all electrical equipment, checking for issues such as motor bearings, lubrication, commutation, excessive vibration, and signs of wear.
• Diagnose electrical issues using testing equipment or general knowledge of electrical principles.
• Determine the best repair methods to minimize production interruptions.
• Advise on immediate equipment shutdowns or continued operation based on potential damage.
• Interpret and analyze drawings and wiring diagrams to locate and trace electrical circuits.
• Dismantle, clean, repair, replace, install, maintain, assemble, and lubricate electrical equipment while taking safety precautions.
• Adjust equipment to achieve proper operating characteristics.
• Make temporary or permanent repairs to equipment such as main motor drives, generators, control panels, relays, interlocking control systems, electronic devices, and circuit breakers.
• Erect scaffolds and perform simple rigging as required.
• Operate small machine tools, such as drill presses and power saws.
• Check air compressors for proper operation and may start, stop, or adjust compressors.
• Occasionally operate cranes to charge ingots in furnaces and make miscellaneous lifts.
• Maintain a clean and orderly working area.
• Make emergency, minor mechanical repairs in the absence of other maintenance personnel.
• Install, splice, or replace sections of wire for repair or temporary installation.
• Install conduit, fittings, switches, controls, fixtures, and connect and adjust electrical equipment for new installations or replacements as required.

Qualifications

Applicants must successfully complete a maintenance skills examination provided by Ramsey or a similar provider. A minimum of three years of professional repair and troubleshooting experience or a similar combination of education and experience is required.

Tools and Equipment

• Drill press, power saw, chain fall, burning equipment, portable drill and grinder, safety devices, miscellaneous electrical testing equipment and hand tools, pipe benders, soldering equipment, etc.

Materials

• AC and DC equipment, such as electric furnaces, cranes, manipulators, motors, generators, controls, switches, circuit breakers, transformers, control panels, lighting circuits, wire, tape, insulation, repair parts, control circuits, conduit, fittings, etc.