Big River Forest Products is hiring: Electrician in Gloster

About Gloster Forest Products

Gloster Forest Products, LLC (GFP) is building a state-of-the-art lumber mill in Gloster, Mississippi.

The new mill will require over 1 million tons of timber annually to produce about 250 million board feet. The facility will be located on 65 acres (about the area of a large shopping mall) and represents a corporate investment of over $200 million, creating 131 jobs and supporting an additional 200 indirect jobs when operating at full capacity.

Family-owned and operated, GFP is dedicated to its employees who are passionate about delivering unmatched, high-quality lumber from a world-class lumber manufacturing facility.

Gloster Forest Products is slated to begin manufacturing lumber in May of 2024. For more information: www.Glosterfp.com/

POSITION: Electrician

This highly skilled role creates value by performing a variety of electrical systems and maintenance duties, while ensuring maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. This position requires knowledge of and hands-on-experience with the following technologies: instrumentation, electronics, lubrication, hydraulics, power transmission, mechanics, steam, welding and pneumatics.

Responsibilities:

• Install, troubleshoot, and repair equipment in compliance with plant codes, policies, and procedures
• Respond to all maintenance issues, both mechanical and electrical, throughout the plant
• Undertake preventative maintenance program for equipment.
• Read blueprints, diagrams, and schematic drawings to repair equipment.
• Verify and document repairs made.
• Work in a safe manner using proper PPE.
• Work any shift, on-call, holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed

Required Skills:

• 1 years of previous maintenance experience

• Experience with Allen Bradley PLC5 and/or Control Logix
• Knowledge of and experience with hand and power tools
• Mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic knowledge and aptitude
• Experience in an industrial environment with VFDs, PLCs, MCCs, HMIs
• Experience with high voltage (600-23,000 volts)
• Competent with all type power transmission components and troubleshooting
• Be able to pass a basic mechanical assessment test
• Be able to pass a basic hands-on test
• High school diploma or GED Must be able to work nights, weekends, holidays as required

Environmental Conditions:

• Must be able to tolerate extreme hot, humid, cold, and outdoor conditions. Comfortable working in loud environment, around moving machinery, with vibrations and airborne particles (sawdust).