Maintenance Electrician

PTC ALLIANCE LLC • Fairbury, IL

28d • $28 - $28 • Onsite

About The Position

PTC Alliance is seeking a Maintenance Electrician to perform and oversee electrical maintenance, repairs, installations, and inspections of plant equipment and systems. The role may lead and direct other maintenance personnel and must assume the maintenance manager’s role of directing daily maintenance activities when the manager is absent. The electrician works with electrical apparatus, devices, and circuits at any voltage, including motors, generators, power distribution and control panels, circuit breakers, rectifiers, electronic devices, transformers, and cranes. The position also involves troubleshooting, determining materials and tools needed, making repairs and replacements, installing new equipment, and ensuring equipment operates safely and properly.

The employee is expected to understand their shared responsibility for product and service quality and to carry out duties in accordance with PTC Alliance’s Quality Management System and applicable policies, procedures, and work instructions. The job is located at the Fairbury, Illinois plant and has an afternoon shift. Employees must follow plant safety rules and PPE requirements, including lockout/tagout procedures. The work involves manufacturing areas, where noise may be high, as well as identified machine-specific hazards.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of on-the-job experience.
• Achieve a minimum score of 65 on the electrician test.
• Ability to reason through problems involving equipment adjustments.
• Good background in mathematics and computers.
• Ability to lift, push, and pull 100 pounds.
• Ability to stand, walk, or climb for the entire shift.
• Ability to bend and squat and have full range of all limbs without restrictions.
• Ability to perform the physical and vision requirements of the role, including standing, walking, using hands, reaching, talking or hearing, and required visual abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct other maintenance personnel and direct daily maintenance activities in the maintenance manager’s absence.
• Schedule, oversee, and conduct inspections, repairs, installations, and wiring of electrical apparatus, devices, and circuits of any voltage in the plant or assigned area.
• Read and interpret wiring diagrams, specifications, instructions, and other drawings to plan scheduled and emergency maintenance work.
• Determine tools, materials, and replacement parts needed, and select troubleshooting and repair approaches.
• Locate electrical equipment failures by tracing and testing circuits and inspecting equipment operation.
• Dismantle, inspect, repair, adjust, or replace faulty parts and wiring on electrical equipment, then reassemble, test, and adjust equipment for safe and proper operation.
• Replace coils, resistors, rheostats, and relays; adjust contactors, relays, and bus rigging; reconnect terminal leads, panel boards, and distribution feeders.
• Shunt defective coils to return equipment to operation and change DC motor characteristics by shunting series coils and related components.
• Install conduit, fittings, switches, controls, and fixtures; wire and connect electrical equipment for new installations or replacement facilities; make required splices and connector joints.
• Adjust new equipment for proper operating characteristics.
• Clean all areas of the plant when not assigned other work by a supervisor.
• Carry out duties in accordance with the PTC Quality Management System and applicable policies, procedures, and work instructions.
• Follow plant safety rules, PPE requirements, and lockout/tagout procedures.

Benefits

• 95% company-paid healthcare
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Dependent and spouse life insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Referral bonus
• Annual college scholarship available for children and grandchildren of PTC Alliance employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed