Industrial Electrician

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Frisco City (AL); On-site; USD 49,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC’s Rocky Creek lumber mill in Frisco City, Alabama is hiring an Industrial Electrician. This role focuses on learning the mill’s operations, troubleshooting, repairing, and performing preventative maintenance to boost uptime and reliability.

You’ll work 12-hour shifts (days or nights) with overtime, holidays, and on-call as needed. The position requires hands-on electrical maintenance experience and familiarity with PLCs, motor control, and instrumentation.

Qualifications

• 1 year+ electrical maintenance exp in industrial manufacturing or a 2-year electrical degree.
• Experience troubleshooting and preventive/predictive maintenance on motors, drives, PLCs, and control systems.
• Familiarity with reading electrical drawings and OEM manuals.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to plant safety and environmental guidelines; participate in safety program.
• Document and report key findings; help improve equipment reliability and uptime.
• Maintain operations, environmental, and safety equipment for optimal performance.
• Collaborate with operations and co-workers to prioritize E/I maintenance needs.
• Assist other crafts as needed.
• Perform tasks including lifting up to 50 pounds and working 12-hour shifts.

Skills

Electrical troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Teamwork

Safety compliance

Reading schematics

Education

Electrical degree or equivalent

Two-year technical training

Tools

Allen Bradley PLCs

AC/DC motors & drives

VFDs

Control panels

Job description

Georgia-Pacific’s Rocky Creek lumber mill in Frisco City, Alabama is now hiring for an Industrial Electrician. The Industrial Electrician will create value by learning the everyday operations of the mill and how to troubleshoot, repair and perform preventative maintenance on equipment leading to increased uptime and reliability, thus helping the facility to meet their production and quality goals. Successful employees demonstrate teamwork, initiative and adherence to all safety standards and codes.

Shift: 12-hour shifts/with open availability to work either days or nights - 5:45 am to 6:00 pm days and 5:45 pm to 6:00 am nights

Pay: $28 per hour and up based upon experience/skill set

Our Team

This facility produces a variety of products from southern yellow pine, including dimension lumber, heavy studs, squares/timbers and barn timbers. Georgia-Pacific’s building product business has consistently been among the nation’s top suppliers of building products to building materials dealers and large warehouse retailers. Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about Georgia-Pacific's Building Products Division please visit http://www.buildgp.com/.

What You Will Do

• Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures and actively participate in the mill safety program
• Document and report to supervisor key findings during work execution and actively participate in improving equipment reliability and uptime
• Maintain operations, environmental, and safety equipment to achieve optimal performance
• Work with operations, supervision, and co-workers in a team environment to help identify & prioritize E/I maintenance needs
• Assist other crafts as needed
• Perform tasks such as lifting (up to 50 pounds), walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
• Be willing and able to meet the physical and safety requirements of the job while working 12 hour shifts, overtime, holidays, on-call, and weekends

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• One year or more of electrical maintenance experience in an industrial manufacturing environment or a two year electrical degree
• Experience troubleshooting and performing preventive and predictive maintenance functions on equipment including motor starters, control panels, electrical distribution systems, and distributed process control systems
• Experience troubleshooting electrical controls, PLC’s (Allen Bradley Control Logix software), AC and DC motors & drives, motor controllers, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, control loops and instrumentation

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience reading technical drawings, schematics, and interpreting OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) manuals
• Two (2) or more years of technical training in the electrical and instrumentation field
• Leadership experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Projects
• Experience working with VFD

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending
• health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• may also include infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

We look forward to hearing from you!