E&I Technician

Smurfit Westrock; Hopewell (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent wages

Strong benefits package

Comprehensive training

Drug screening after offer

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is seeking an Electrical and Instrumentation Technician for The Hopewell Mill in Virginia. The role supports safety-driven maintenance, troubleshooting, and predictive activities in a heavy manufacturing setting.

You will work with PLCs, drives, and process controls while collaborating with maintenance and operations to keep equipment uptime high. Overtime and rotating shifts are expected in this industrial environment.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required or equivalent.
• Five years' experience in Electrical and Instrumentation or an E&I degree.
• Ability to work overtime and rotating shifts.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Mechanical craft experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identify and mitigate safety hazards before starting work with proper PPE.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance throughout the facility.
• Troubleshoot and solve problems with maintenance leadership and operations.
• Initiate and complete work-orders and requisitions; document key information.
• Work in coordination with maintenance teams to maintain uptime metrics.
• Follow safety procedures and report hazards immediately.

Skills

Electrical troubleshooting

Shift work readiness

Teamwork & collaboration

Verbal & written communication

Safety compliance (NFPA-70E)

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Electrical & Instrumentation Degree

Tools

AB/Rockwell PLCs

Rockwell DC Drives

Hart Calibrators

Fluke Calibrators

Electrical Drawings & Ladder Logic Reading

Job description

Description & Requirements

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

Description & Requirements

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

The Opportunity

The Hopewell Mill is seeking to hire Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians to support its paper manufacturing facility. E\&I Technicians provide services to assigned departments to achieve short- and long-term department and Smurfit Westrock objectives.

How You Will Impact Smurfit Westrock

• Ability to identify and mitigate safety hazards before starting work, including proper use of PPE and NFPA-70E requirements.
• Acute awareness of environmental impact of work processes and results.
• Utilization of both excellent mechanical skills and knowledge (pneumatics, hydraulics, bearings, power transmission, lubrication, rigging, welding) and electrical / electronic skills and knowledge (PLC’s, A/C, D/C motors and drives, schematics) in our continuous pulp and paper process manufacturing environment to achieve equipment uptime metrics.
• Work positively with maintenance leadership, other maintenance crew members and all of operations to troubleshoot and solve problems, safely and expeditiously.
• Engage in preventive and predictive maintenance activities throughout the facility.
• Follows standard safety procedures, correct safety, and environmental hazards, and report them to Supervision immediately.
• Initiates and completes work-orders, requisitions, and documents all critical and or pertinent information on a routine basis.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Must be willing to work shift work and able to respond to calls
• Computer Skills - Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel. MS Project is plus.
• Strong electronics background preferred with experience also in 480 Volt, 4160volt, 3-Phase Controls; AB/Rockwell DC Drive; AB/Rockwell PLC's, Control Logic; Reading Electrical Drawings and Ladder Logic NFPA-70E and NEC requirements for maintaining electrical systems.
• Proper use and care of test equipment and electrical PPE to troubleshoot electrical AC / DC motors, motor control circuits, process instrumentation loops, and to make necessary repairs with minimal supervision in accordance with Federal and State Regulations, company work rules, policies, and procedures.
• Excellent teamwork, cooperation, and detailed problem-solving skills.
• Calibration of level, temperature, flow, pressure transmitters and controls using Hart, FoxCom, or Fluke Calibrators.
• Calibration and repair of process control valves (Fisher) using Hart or Fluke Calibrators.
• Distributed Controls System (DCS) knowledge for troubleshooting process controls.

Physical Demands

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is frequently required to walk, occasionally required to sit, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move objects up to twenty (20) pounds and occasionally lift and/or move objects up to fifty (50) pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Duties are performed in an office environment and on jobsites throughout the mill. May on occasion have to work long hours and overtime during emergencies, power outages, weekends, holidays, planned major equipment outages, etc.

What You Need To Succeed

• High School Diploma or G.E.D.
• Five (5) years' experience in Electrical and Instrumentation field or Electrical and Instrumentation Degree.
• Ability to work overtime and rotating shifts.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Mechanical craft experience a plus.

What We Offer

• Excellent wages and a strong benefits package.
• Comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities.
• A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.
• Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.