Electrical & Controls Technician

Description

As an Electrical & Controls Technician at Greenbridge, you are responsible for maintaining the electrical equipment in our facility through the design, implementation, and maintenance of industrial, commercial, and domestic electrical systems in a manufacturing environment.

Requirements

• Manage the implementation and upgrades of all electrical wiring, controls, and automation equipment in the facility.
• Troubleshoot and repair equipment problems in coordinated effort with maintenance and production personnel.
• Ensuring all equipment is diagnosed and repaired in a timely manner or elevating to the Plant & Maintenance Manager level when the repairs will take longer than allotted time.
• Understand and interpret 2D drawings of both mechanical and controls assemblies to include controls wiring diagram and pneumatic controls logic diagrams.
• PLC troubleshooting/installation/maintenance/programming, maintain the library of programs at the Greenbridge facility in Cleveland, Oh.
• Use test equipment such as multimeters, panel meters, and other devices.
• Familiarity with PLC’s, various I/O signals, circuit protection, heater controllers, and PID controllers.
• Wire electrical control panels and extruder equipment devices providing drawings/schematics, when needed.
• Ability to mechanically assemble various tools and special machines using electrical components in the construction of the machine system.
• Perform facilities maintenance, such as general lighting, updates to facilities distribution panel to support current projects and new equipment.
• Provide guidance on electrical/controls issues for future capital improvement projects.
• Flexibility to work various hours and shifts as needed, especially during project, installations, etc.
• Creating documents, emails, spreadsheets, presentations etc. using Microsoft Office

Qualifications and Experience

• Interpersonal skills - ability to build positive relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Communication skills - ability to communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and written.
• Critical thinking skills - ability to create new, innovative ways to manage situations with a strong bias towards Continuous Improvement fundamentals.
• Time management skills - ability to prioritize work assignments in a fast-paced, dynamic, production driven work environment and to complete them effectively and efficiently.
• Project management skills - ability to create and maintain project timelines anticipating and overcoming obstacles before they grow.

Required Credentials/Experience:

Associate’s degree from an accredited community college / university or Vocational School Certification and High School Diploma. Job-related experience and/or training will be considered in lieu of post-secondary education.

5+ years of experience in the following:

• Experience within an electrical and controls environment.
• Troubleshooting/installing/maintaining Allen Bradley Controls, VFD motor controls, 110/220/480 VAC and components, and process sensors of all types.
• Calibrating and testing controls, verifying instrumentation accuracy and effectiveness, and performing routine maintenance on the plant-wide controls system.
• Creating and editing Allen Bradley PLC programs.
• Reading and creating technical documents and electrical drawings, interpreting and red-lining detailed control and instrumentation schematics, ladder logic diagrams, wiring schematics, and PID’s/PFD’s.

Preferred Credentials/Experience:

• Lean/6 Sigma project experience
• Operational process improvement experience
• Experience in robotic controls/installation/troubleshooting

Salary Description

$32/hour