ZipRecruiter is hiring: Electrician in Gloster

Overview

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 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

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 / Qualifications

• 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).