Maintenance Electrician

Job Details: Job Location: FAIRBURY - Fairbury, IL, Salary Range: $27.70 - $27.70Hourly, Job Shift: Afternoon, PTC Alliance is a leading manufacturer and marketer of welded and cold drawn mechanical steel tubing and tubular shapes, plated bar and tubing, and fabricated parts and precision components.

We at PTC Alliance value our employees’ health and wellness. We offer the following:

95% Company PAID Healthcare
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Dependent & Spouse Life Insurance
401K plan with company match
Referral Bonus
Annual college scholarship available for children & grandchildren of PTC Alliance employees

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

Must be able to lead and direct other maintenance personnel. Must also perform maintenance manager’s role of directing daily maintenance activities in his absence.
Schedule, oversee, and conduct inspections, repair, installation, and wiring of all electrical apparatus, devices and circuits, of any voltage in the plant or assigned area.
Must be able to read wiring diagrams, specifications and instructions covering the scheduled and emergency repair , installation and inspection work to be done.
Analyzes all types of drawings and wiring diagrams to locate and install circuits and equipment, to determine material or replacements needs, and to select a logical approach to trouble shooting and repair problems. 
Determines necessary tools and materials – plans, performs work requiring a thorough working knowledge of electrical principles, wiring specifications, codes, properties of various materials, and principles of operation and application of equipment.
Locates sources of failure of any type electrical equipment by tracing and testing circuits and inspecting for faulty operation.
Dismantles, inspects, repairs and adjusts or replaces faulty parts and wiring of motors, generators, power distribution and control panels, circuit breakers, rectifiers, electronic devices, transformers, cranes ect.
Reassembles, test and adjusts equipment for safe and proper operation.
Replaces coils, resisters, rheostats, relays ect.
Adjust contacters, relays, bus rigging, ect.  Reconnects terminal seads, panel boards, and distribution feeders.
Cleans all areas of the plant when not directed by supervisor to do anything else.
Shunts out defective coils to return equipment back to operation.
Changes dc motor characteristics by shunting series, coils, ect.
Installs conduit, fittings, switches, controls and fixtures; wires and connects all types of electrical equipment as required for new installations or replacement of facilities. 
Makes all required splices and connector joints.
Adjust all new equipment for proper operating characteristics.
Must be familiar with PCL operating systems.

The incumbent is expected to understand that all employees have a shared responsibility for the quality of products and related services provided to our customers. Duties and responsibilities are to be carried out in accordance with the PTC Quality Management System and its policies, procedures, and work instructions as applicable to the job or function being performed.

 
Qualifications:
Minimum Education and/or Experience Requirements: 

Number of Direct Reports:  None                          

Job Titles of Direct Reports:  Non

Skills and Abilities: 

Ability to reason through problems involving adjustments to equipment.
Must have a good background in math and computers
Must achieve a minimum score test score of 65 on the electrician test
Must have a minimum of five years’ experience on the job.
Expected to be able to lift, push, pull, 100 pounds.  Required to stand, walk, or climb for the entire shift.  Must be able to bend, squat and have full range of all limbs without restrictions.

Work Environment:  

All hazards identified for machine specific JSA’s
Working heights
Sharp edges on tubes and steel strip
Sharp edges on machine parts.  (do not use excessive force to loosen or tighten – for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction)
Electrocution – all electricians must follow and practice procedures for lockout/tagout

Work Environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, however employees are expected to spend significant timer in the plant’s manufacturing areas where noise levels may be high. Employee is required to abide by plant safety rules, and PPE requirements.

Physical Demands:

Physical Demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.