Plant Utilities and Cranes Electrical Technician

Job Title: Plant Utilities and Cranes Electrical Technician

Location: 71115, Shreveport, Louisiana

Employment: Full-time direct hire

Schedule: M-F from 8AM - 5PM (some flexibility. One weekend per month will be on-call, that means be available in town in case its needed)

Qualifications:

• Technical certification in Electricity, Mechatronics, Instrumentation, or a related electrical field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with cranes in industrial settings.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with medium-voltage transformers, switchgears, and protection relays.
• Strong background in AC and DC electromechanical and solid-state motor control systems.
• Ability to read blueprints, schematics, and wiring diagrams.
• Competency working with 480V, 3-phase motor control systems.
• Expertise with PLCs and Variable Frequency Drives.
• Basic mechanical experience with gear reducers, drive systems, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
• Ability to perform preventative maintenance and inspections to ensure crane and hoist reliability.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong safety awareness and experience.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, coworkers, and management.

Environment

• Frequent walking.
• Working at heights.
• Exposure to hot and cold plant environments to understand operational processes and develop proper technical crane maintenance programs.

SUMMARY OF POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure the electrical reliability of the plant’s utilities, overhead cranes, and hoists.
• Participate in morning meetings to discuss and resolve utilities and crane-related issues.
• Assist contractors when necessary, including availability for on-call support.
• Develop appropriate PMs and SOPs for utilities and crane equipment.
• Perform daily inspections to ensure equipment reliability.
• Continuously seek improvements in processes, techniques, and safety practices.
• Possess the skills to replace drives or PLCs (including downloading parameters and making basic programming changes) without assistance.
• Setting and configuration of sensors and transmitters for, temperature, flow, pressure, distance, speed, etc.
• Experience working on Medium-voltage transformers, switchgears and protection relays is required.
• Basic knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Use SAP and E-Merge/Sphera systems to maintain critical spare parts in the storeroom.
• Read and interpret electrical and mechanical diagrams, schematics, and manuals for utilities, cranes, and hoists.
• Participate in root cause analysis and ABC meetings to identify and resolve issues affecting critical cranes.
• Coordinate effective repairs and maintenance of facility crane equipment using SAP.
• Responsible for daily and regulatory crane inspections and periodic load testing for all plant cranes.
• Perform additional maintenance-related duties as assigned.