Electrician

We’re looking for Electrician for our client in Dayton, NJ. Earn up to $36 / HR in a fast-paced environment, keeping production flowing and performing various types of work in the packaging, blending or logistics areas.

Our Client is looking for a highly skilled Electrical, Instrumentation, and Controls (EIC) technician. The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced levels of leadership and technical skills with minimal direction.

This individual will support and maintain plant electrical, controls and instrumentation systems and will have the ability to operate equipment and machinery safely while meeting all quality and production expectations.

The successful candidate will be expected to work on any shift based on the team's shift rotation schedule. The individual must be implementing plans and tracking progress.

Maintain and troubleshoot plant electrical distribution panels

• Install, maintain and troubleshoot all 480vac to 24vdc plant electrical systems and Motor Control Centers
• Use EI&C skills to be able to troubleshoot and repair process and packaging equipment (fillers, conveyors, drives, packers, palletizers, etc.)
• Troubleshoot PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, servo drives and other electronically controlled equipment
• Install, setup, calibrate, inspect and troubleshoot process instrumentation equipment
• Troubleshoot PLC and HMI (Wonderware and other) programming
• Provide on-going support for evolving machine controls needs and provide the daily support required to maintain the manufacturing systems by maintaining, troubleshooting and modifying / editing EIC systems, technologies, and documentation
• Electrical training of new EIC Tech’s and plant Technicians
• Provide leadership to the team / plant for both technical and operational challenges and flows to the work to improved team performance
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Technical School preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as an Electrician
• Minimum 1 to 2 years of experience in a high-speed production environment; Food manufacturing / bottling preferred.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
• Formal EI&C education via trade / vocational school, military or other industrial electrical certification or equivalent work experience a plus
• Basic MS Office knowledge
• Organizational skills
• Self-starting
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Power Distribution Systems up to and including 480VAC with working knowledge of the and strong experience with basic electrical tools (Meggers, Amp meters, Volt meters, conduit tools, etc.

Able to read power and controls schematics.

• Experienced with integrating electrical, instrumentation and mechanical knowledge into a single troubleshooting system and operating equipment experience
• Experience with the Utilities, Process, and Machine Controls systems below or equivalent :
• PLC-5, SLC-500, Control Logix 5000, communication Networks (DH+, Control net, Device net, Ethernet). Vision systems, online printing / coding system is a plus
• Allen Bradley 1336, SEW drives, Power Flex series motor controls, Pacific Scientific / Krones / Rockwell or other Servo Controls
• Knowledge of Operator Interface Systems
• Wonderware HMI and Panel View HMI or equivalent
• Experience with Instrumentation
• Experienced in the calibration of flow, pressure, level, and temperature instruments.
• Capable of supporting basic board level electronic system repairs ( troubleshoot to the board level and replace boards as necessary)
• Familiar with P&IDs and able to use as tool for troubleshooting
• Experience in a flexible, multi-skilled, team based working environment.

This is a physical job in nature and must be willing to work in a non-controlled temperature environment.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, talk and hear.

The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Supplemental pay types :

• Bonus pay
• Signing bonus

Ability to commute / relocate :

Dayton, NJ 08810 : Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience :

• VFDs, motors, HMIs, PLCs : 1 year (Required)
• conveyors, gearboxes, air cylinder : 1 year (Required)
30+ days ago