Electrician

Position Summary

Carthage Forest Products is looking for Electricians to join our team located, in Carthage, Arkansas. The incumbent in this role is responsible for performing complex tasks, planning and laying out the routing, placement, and arrangement of industrial or similarly complex systems, circuits, controls, and equipment. In additions, installing, modifying, repairing, maintaining, troubleshooting, testing, and loading new and existing electrical lines, circuits, systems, and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment.

This highly skilled role creates value by performing a variety of electrical systems and maintenance duties, while ensuring maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. This position requires knowledge of and hands-on-experience with the following technologies:  instrumentation, electronics, lubrication, hydraulics, power transmission, mechanics, steam, welding and pneumatics.   

Essential Duties and 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
   

Education/ Experience/ Certifications/ Licenses 

• 1-3 years of previous electrical and maintenance experience
• 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

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

• Good Communication skills
• Safe working practices
• Problem solving skills
• Basic Computer knowledge

Work setting

• Onsite In-person role (Required).

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• STD/LTD
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance 
• Employee Assistance Program(EAP)
• Paid time off

Work Environment Manufacturing Plant Physical Demands
 

• The physical demands and work environment are representative of a typical sawmill environment. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. Noise levels are moderate to high depending on the area of the mill. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk and hear. Requires close vision, distance vision, and depth perception. Lifting and physical activity is required for this position, must be able to move boards and wood pieces. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 30 pounds.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.