Position Summary:
Plans layout, installs and repairs wiring, electrical fixtures, apparatus, and control equipment in a 24/7 manufacturing facility.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Plans new or modified installations to minimize waste of materials, provides access for future maintenance, and avoids unsightly, hazardous, and unreliable wiring, consistent with specifications and local electrical codes.
- Installs control and distribution apparatus such as switches, relays, and circuit breaker panels.
- Observes functioning of installed equipment or system to detect hazards and need for adjustments, relocation, or replacement.
- Repairs faulty equipment or systems.
- Keeps records and prepares sketches showing location of wiring and equipment, or follows diagrams or blueprints, ensuring that concealed wiring is installed before completion of future walls, ceilings, and flooring.
- Connects wiring to lighting fixtures and power equipment.
- Connects power cables to equipment, such as electric range or motor, and installs grounding leads.
- Tests continuity of circuit to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components with testing instruments such as ohmmeter, battery and buzzer, amp meter and oscilloscope.
- Journeyman Electrician License required
- 2 to 5 years of electrical experience in a manufacturing environment
- Guide and facilitate projects
- Serves as a lead or senior employee in a small work unit
- Working hours for this position are 7:00am until 3:30pm M-F with a possibility of being occasionally on-call
For over 80 years Sterilite has manufactured household and storage products that help people to organize their lives. We are the largest plastic housewares company in North America. Sterilite’s broad line features some of the most innovative and distinctive products available on the market today.
As a member of the Sterilite team, you will enjoy a starting rate commensurate with your experience. This position entitles you to Sterilite's excellent benefit program that includes paid vacation time, health insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), dental, vision and life and AD&D insurance, short-term disability, 401(k) retirement plan with a match, product discounts, and educational reimbursements.
Sterilite is an equal opportunity employer.