Weekend Electrician

Alta Forest Products

$84K — $84K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Valid Journeyman's electrician license or equivalent required, 3rd or 4th-year apprentices considered based on experience.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills with electrical systems.
  • Proficient in working with three-phase systems, controls, transformers, and variable frequency drives.
  • Experience with Allen Bradley PLC processors and NEC codebook compliance.
  • Welding and hydraulic experience preferred, especially in sawmill operations.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and install electrical systems while minimizing waste and adhering to safety codes.
  • Prepare and follow blueprints for electrical installations, ensuring access for maintenance.
  • Install and assemble electrical conduits and pull wiring through them.
  • Connect wiring to lighting and power equipment, including control apparatus like circuit breakers.
  • Test circuit continuity using various testing instruments to ensure safety and functionality.
  • Monitor equipment operation to identify hazards and required adjustments.
  • Perform repairs on faulty equipment and troubleshoot electrical issues affecting mill productivity.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance offered.
  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
  • Retirement savings plan to support long-term financial goals.
  • Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellness support.
  • Short-term and long-term disability plans available.
Full Job Description
Electrician
Job Details

Job Type

Full-time

Morton, WA

Description

The Role:

Journeyman Industrial Electricians are an essential part of sawmill operations, ensuring that electrical equipment is in proper working condition and that mill production is maximized. This position will assist in planning layouts, installation, and repairing wiring of electrical fixtures, apparatus, and control equipment. The qualified candidate will hold a Journeyman's license or equivalent. 3rd and 4th-year electrical apprentices will also be considered, depending on experience.

Responsibilities:
  • Plans new or modified installations to minimize waste of materials, provide access for future maintenance, and avoid unsightly hazardous and unreliable wiring, consistent with specifications and local electrical codes.
  • Prepares sketches showing the location of wiring and equipment or follows diagrams or blueprints, ensuring that concealed wiring is installed before the completion of future walls, ceilings, and flooring.
  • Measures, cuts, bends, threads, assembles and installs electrical conduit.
  • Pulls wiring through conduit.
  • Splice wires by stripping insulation from terminal leads, twisting or soldering wires, and applying tape or terminal caps.
  • Connects wiring to lighting fixtures and power equipment.
  • Installs control and distribution apparatus such as switches, relays, and circuit-breaker panels.
  • Connects power cables to equipment, such as electric range or motor, and installs grounding leads.
  • Tests circuit continuity to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components with testing instruments such as ohmmeter, battery and buzzer, and oscilloscope.
  • Observes the functioning of installed equipment or system to detect hazards and the need for adjustments, relocation, or replacement.
  • Repairs faulty equipment or systems.
  • Cuts and welds steel structural members.
  • PLC programming.
  • Troubleshoots electrical issues or ways to improve mill functionality.
  • Other duties as assigned

Work Environment

This role may operate in a professional office, log yards, and sawmill. While performing the duties of this job, employees will be exposed to machinery and moving mechanical parts. This position will often be exposed to noise, hazards, airborne particulates, and temperature changes.

Position Type/Travel/Schedule

This is a full-time position, and overtime work may be required as projects or job duties demand.

Friday through Monday, 4:00am-2:30pm

Physical Demands

An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform this job's essential functions successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile.
  • This position requires the occasional use of basic hand tools
  • This position requires standing, sitting, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping for extended lengths of time.

Benefits & Pay
  • Pay: $40.63 per hour plus any applicable shift differential
  • Pay Differential for Swing, Graveyard, and Weekend Shifts
  • Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employee and Family Life Insurance
  • Paid time off, Vacation, Holiday, Sick Leave
  • Referral program
  • Retirement Savings Plan
  • Short Term & Long-Term Disability Plans
  • Voluntary Benefit Programs like Pet, Illness, and Accident Insurance
Requirements

Qualifications for this position include:
  • Modeling, implementing, and complying with all company safety rules and industry standards
  • Utilize troubleshooting skills to assist in designing and repairing electrical systems
  • Understanding and working with
  • Three-phase systems
  • Controls
  • Transformers
  • Tempo sonic linear positions
  • MCCs
  • Variable Frequency Drives * Troubleshooting with Allen Bradly PLC processors, series 5, 500, and 5000
  • Bending and working with RMC, IMC, and EMT conduit
  • Must be able to use and interpret the NEC codebook.

Preference will be given to applicants with the following:
  • Sawmill experience.
  • Experience with hydraulics, welding, and pneumatics.
  • Familiarity with sawmill optimization and scanning equipment.

General Requirements:
  • Ability to work in a physically demanding environment, including climbing and heavy lifting.
  • Be willing to work weekends and holidays
  • Be willing to work both indoors and outdoors, in all weather conditions.
  • Must be 18 or older.
  • Is trustworthy and self-motivated.

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