Plant Maintenance Electrician-Industrial Operations, 1st Shift Hours, $36.46 to $38.43, Wheatfield, NY

WHY DO WE NEED YOU?

The Plant Maintenance Electrician is responsible for maintaining and improving plant operations by troubleshooting, repairing, installing, and maintaining electrical, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic systems across production and facility equipment. This role supports automation and control systems, including basic PLC programming and AC/DC motor drives, and is expected to work safely and independently while partnering with Production, Maintenance, Engineering, and EHS to keep equipment reliable and compliant.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic malfunctions; safely analyze machinery breakdowns and restore equipment to production readiness.
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and repair electrical controls (with or without prints); inspect, repair, replace, install, adjust, and maintain electrical/mechanical equipment and machinery.
• Support automation and control systems, including basic PLC programming and programming of AC/DC motor drives.
• Install and wire new equipment: build out panels, mount panels per specification, run/install wiring, complete terminations, test functionality, and perform work in a neat, workmanlike manner.
• Disassemble, adjust, repair, and reassemble machine tool components (including hydraulics, clutches, brakes, turrets, and related assemblies); design/fabricate parts and perform equipment modifications.
• Interpret, update, and maintain blueprints, schematics, machine manuals, and drawings; design, update, and modify electrical systems (up to 600V).
• Perform scheduled preventive maintenance (PM), periodic inspections, recalibration of electrical components, and maintenance data collection to support reliability and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate with Parts & Inventory and Purchasing to maintain an appropriate supply of spare parts and maintenance supplies; create purchase requisitions and maintain required stock items.
• Complete daily maintenance work logs and ass...