Maintenance Electrician

Title: Maintenance Electrician (3rd shift 11pm - 7am. Occasional overtime 7pm - 7am)

Location: Elk Grove Village, IL

Pay Rate: $30 - $36/hr with shift differential ($1 - $1.50), plus overtime and quarterly bonus.

Duration of Job: Direct Hire

BASIC PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Maintains, services, repairs, rebuilds, and calibrates plant electrical equipment and systems.

Works under the general direction and supervision of the Maintenance Lead Person, Manufacturing Engineer, or Production Supervisor.

In addition to all tools and equipment available in the Maintenance Shop, must also use meters, scopes and CRT Test Equipment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION:

Obtains work assignments and maintenance schedules from the Maintenance Lead Person, Manufacturing Services Engineer, or Production Supervisor.

Regularly inspects and records condition, on forms provided, on all electrical equipment including motors, generators, control panels and systems, switches, lighting, circuits and circuit breakers; cleans, maintains, adjusts and lubricates equipment, taking all safety precautions.

Uses electrical test equipment, drawings, electrical blueprints, wiring and schematic diagrams to install new equipment and diagnose problems with inoperative equipment; modifies and improves existing equipment; determines whether or not temporary continuation of operation will have any harmful effect on equipment; advises Crew Chief and Production Supervisor when immediate shut down of equipment is necessary to minimize damage; determines methods to minimize interruption of production.

Performs temporary or permanent repairs; corrects defective circuits by determining cause of failure and replacing circuit components; repairs motors, cranes, generators and other equipment; performs mechanical repairs as required.

Stop, starts and adjusts industrial oven gas and air.

Monitors, inspects and calibrates computer relay systems, analyzes and make repairs on same.

NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Works with repair crews on emergency breakdowns; may erect scaffolds and perform simple rigging as required; operates machine tools such as drill press, power saw and portable drill and grinder.

Is responsible for housekeeping in shop are and work sites.

Actively participates in quality improvement process.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE POSITION:

High School graduate or equivalent.

Must be familiar with solid state control system.

Must be knowledgeable of test equipment used for trouble-shooting systems.

Must have own tools.

Must be able to read electrical schematics and act on them.

Must have thorough knowledge of AC/DC equipment, motors, generators, control panels, switches, lighting circuit breakers, and relay systems, variable speed drives and programmable controllers.

Must be familiar with all applicable codes and proper installation methods.

Heavy physical effort (up to 50 pounds).

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