I&E Technician

Location: Conway

At Bakelite, you'll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.

We're Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you'll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world's most challenging demands.

Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.

It's Better with Bakelite.

Instrumentation and Electrical (I&E) Technician:
The Impact You'll Have On The Organization and World

• You will be responsible for the installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of electrical systems, process instrumentation, and process control systems used in industrial chemical manufacturing.

• You'll support safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations by ensuring all electrical, instrumentation, and automation systems operate in compliance with safety, environmental, regulatory, and process safety requirements.

It's Better with Bakelite:
Our Commitment Back to You

• You'll Help Shape Our Future. As a Bakelite associate, you're part of a diverse, global population creating the next generation of the company and we expect you to put your fingerprint on it.
• We Champion Our Associates. At Bakelite, you don't just climb the career ladder - you pave your personal path through continued learning and development.
• Together, We Will Protect the Planet. From our processes to our products, we are focusing on the opportunities that both grow our profitability as a company, and improve and protect the planet.
• Safety is a Core Value. At Bakelite, safety is a 24/7 mindset. We are all safe today to ensure we are able to show up tomorrow - for our families and friends, for each other and for our communities.
• We Care. Plain and simple, we care about our associates. From the top on down, we place a high value on our culture and the associate experience. We offer competitive compensation, robust benefits and support our associates every step of their career.

Life in Conway:
Located in the eastern part of the state, Conway is a small North Carolina town within 100 miles of Richmond, Norfolk-Virginia Beach and the Raleigh-Durham area.

• Our Conway team has strong ties to the local community. We recently sponsored the town's annual charity golf tournament, and several of our associates are active in the volunteer Conway Fire Department, to which Bakelite donates essential emergency services equipment.

• A nearby attraction is the Roanoke River, which flows across North Carolina's coastal plain and is home to lots of wildlife, including more than 200 species of birds. You can also explore the Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail, which highlights the historical significance the canal system played in westward expansion and trade.

• With the Norfolk International Airport just an hour and a half away, you can easily hop a flight to anywhere in the world.

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What Does a Typical Day Look Like? Here are your primary responsibilities:

Electrical Systems

• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot electrical equipment including motors, MCCs, switch gear, transformers, VFDs, lighting, and power distribution systems.
• Diagnose and repair electrical faults in low- and medium-voltage systems.
• Interpret and work from one-line diagrams, wiring diagrams, schematics, and electrical drawings.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance in accordance with maintenance procedures and schedules.

Instrumentation

• Install, calibrate, maintain, and troubleshoot field instrumentation including:
  Pressure, temperature, flow, and level transmitters Control valves, valve positioners, actuators, and solenoids Analytical and detection instruments Perform loop checks and instrument functional testing.
• Document calibration and maintenance activities in the CMMS.

Process Control & Automation

• Maintain and troubleshoot plant process control systems including DCS, PLCs, HMIs, and associated I/O.
• Support control loop performance through testing, tuning, and optimization to improve process stability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot control strategies, logic, interlocks, and…