What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instrumentation and Electrical Technician position at New-Indy Containerboard LLC?
Summary
Journeyman Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians are responsible for machinery maintenance, troubleshooting, repairing, upgrading and installations within a high volume, continuous run working environment. Responsible for the maintenance of all applicable equipment throughout the paper mill to assuring that machines are kept operational and reliable. This position is categorized as heavy work. The position is covered under a collective bargaining agreement.
Essential Functions Of The Job
Requirements: Specific knowledge and experience with:
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is required to:
Journeyman Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians are responsible for machinery maintenance, troubleshooting, repairing, upgrading and installations within a high volume, continuous run working environment. Responsible for the maintenance of all applicable equipment throughout the paper mill to assuring that machines are kept operational and reliable. This position is categorized as heavy work. The position is covered under a collective bargaining agreement.
Essential Functions Of The Job
- Perform maintenance duties to troubleshoot and repair defective equipment in a timely manner.
- Perform predictive and preventative maintenance duties and generates work requests to repair defective equipment.
- Works with process and project engineers as necessary to install new equipment and modify existing equipment.
- Assist other team members in the mill as necessary to minimize downtime and maintain quality.
- Responds to assigned work orders and inputs to Maintenance Management System the work performed on the equipment specified in the work order.
- Communicates closely with the team leader and other team members on the status of work progress.
- Assists in the education of other team members to produce a multi-functional maintenance department.
- Assists manufacturing teams as necessary in their tasks such as felt changes and process troubleshooting.
- Works closely with all team members to ensure that work is done in a safe manner.
- Works as part of a team which is responsible for the condition of all process and non-process equipment.
- Develops, maintains, and uses reliable methods for all processes and their improvements.
- Maintains and develops team relationships.
- Develops and stays current in cross-functional maintenance skills.
- Comply with all company policies as well as local, state and federal laws/regulations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements: Specific knowledge and experience with:
- Proven experience as an industrial electrician (Journeyman E&I) level for a minimum of 5 yeas
- Working knowledge of Distributed Control Systems (DCS).
- Working knowledge of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).
- Thorough knowledge of safety procedures and legal regulations and guidelines
- Experience in heavy manufacturing and/or paper mill is a plus.
- Experience with Computerized Maintenance management Systems (CMMS) such as Maximo.
- Excellent critical thinking, troubleshooting and problem-solving ability.
- Must have good communication skills.
- Demonstrable ability to use electrical and hand tools and able to follow prints and instructions.
- Applicants must pass a mechanical aptitude test.
- Required to learn how to use various software programs including, but not limited to Maximo, Outlook, Elixir, Paycom ESS and any other applicable. The Company will provide training if needed.
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is required to:
- Stand for long periods of time.
- Walk the distance of a large manufacturing facility.
- Reach with hands and arms above the shoulders.
- Have full wrist range of motion to use tools.
- Bend at the waist and twist upper body.
- Grip hand and power tools, ladders and equipment.
- Use hands to turn valves, push and pull items.
- Climb or balance on stairs, ladders & catwalks.
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Move, lift & carry up to 50 pounds (Occasionally up to 100 pounds)
- Required to sit, drive heavy machinery such as a bobcat, forklift and clamp truck.
- Vision abilities required are close vision and depth perception.
- Able to verbally communicate and hearing abilities.
- A combination of these activities can make up a full 8–12-hour shift.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud (80 dB).
- Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
- Continually exposed to loud, moving mechanical equipment; high precarious places; vapors or corrosive chemicals; hot and cold; blood borne pathogens; and risk of electrical shock.
- Occasionally the employee is exposed to the Mill work environment which can be hot, and the noise level is loud
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