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Electrical and Instrumentation Technician

Job in South Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
Listing for: Partners Personnel
Full Time position
Listed on 2025-10-31
Job specializations:
  • Trades / Skilled Labor
    Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Electrician/ Electrician Installation
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 34 - 36 USD Hourly USD 34.00 36.00 HOUR
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We are seeking a Electrical and Instrumentation (E&I) Technician for our Dayton, NJ plant. The E&I Technician will be a key player in our plant operations. The ideal candidate for this role will support and maintain plant electrical, controls and instrumentation systems and will have the ability to operate equipment and machinery safely, as well as maintain and troubleshoot plant electrical distribution panels.

Direct hire Shift: (1) 12 hour day shift 6:30am-7:00pm on our 2-2-3 schedule, and (1) 1st shift opening 6:30am-3:00pm M-F. Offering $34-36 an hour

Duties

  • 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.

Requirements:

  • 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 480

    VAC with working knowledge of the N.E.C. 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 (i.e. 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.
Seniority level
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Employment type

    Full-time
Job function
  • Job function

    Information Technology
  • Industries Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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