Electrical & Instrumentation; E&I Technician

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Georgia-Pacific in Brewton, AL is currently seeking an Electrical & Instrumentation Technician with a strong instrument background for our Brewton, AL facility. Our E&I Techs use their strong electrical and instrumentation skills and knowledge focusing on PLCs, A/C and D/C motors and drives, control logic, instrumentation systems, schematics, and troubleshooting, to increase uptime and reliability, thus helping the facility to meet their production and quality goals.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the production and maintenance teams to achieve these goals. This position starts at $43.11 hourly. The regular schedule is 7:00 am-3:30 pm, Monday-Friday. Our E&I Technician works any shift, including holidays and weekends, and works overtime as needed and rotates on-call duties.

Do you enjoy working as a team member and take pride in accomplishing production excellence? Are you looking for a career with a company that values employees and sets them up for success? Then don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!

• Perform electrical maintenance tasks relative to the maintenance department's workload
• Perform preventative maintenance and corrective maintenance work orders
• Monitor equipment and machinery for electrical maintenance deficiencies
• Maintain the cleanliness of the work environment
• Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment
• Perform work in high and/or confined spaces

• High School Diploma or GED
• Five years or more of E&I troubleshooting experience OR two-year technical degree with three years or more of E&I troubleshooting experience
• Experience troubleshooting electrical controls, PLC's, A/C and D/C motors, motor controllers and drives
• Experience troubleshooting and repairing hydraulics, pneumatics, and instrumentation systems:
  Pressure transmitters, level transmitters, flow meters (orifice plate and flow tubes), analyzers (pH, ORP, Oxygen, conductivity), temperature transmitters, and thermocouples
• Experience reading technical drawings and schematics
• Experience rebuilding, troubleshooting, and calibrating control valves, actuators, positioners, and transducers
• Experience with control sensing devices such as proximity sensors, photo eyes, lasers, etc. as well as environmental monitoring systems such as the thermal oxidizer, opacity monitors and flares

• Three years or more of industrial electrician experience
• Three years or more of experience working with process control instrumentation and field sensors

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