What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrician I- Rawhide Mine position at Peabody Energy?
Job Description
Peabody is the leading coal producer, providing essential products for the production of affordable, reliable energy and steel. The company offers significant scale, high-quality assets, and diversity in geography and products. Peabody is guided by seven core values: safety, customer focus, leadership, people, excellence, integrity and sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
The Electrician - Pit and Shop, responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing electrical systems on large-scale surface mining equipment, including electric shovels, drills, and support equipment. This role is critical to ensuring safe, reliable operation of high-voltage systems in an open pit mining environment while maintaining strict compliance with MSHA regulations.
Physical Requirements
SURFACE ENVIRONMENT
Peabody is the leading coal producer, providing essential products for the production of affordable, reliable energy and steel. The company offers significant scale, high-quality assets, and diversity in geography and products. Peabody is guided by seven core values: safety, customer focus, leadership, people, excellence, integrity and sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
- Visibly support and champion Peabody's Mission and Values
- Act in accordance with and adhere to Safety as a Way of Life Management System
- Inspect work area and plant for hazards, damage and defects
- Examine drawings or specifications to determine work methods, sequence of activities or manufacture of components
- Diagnose faults or breakdowns
- Estimate time and materials required to complete jobs
- Raise orders for materials
- Undertake repairs or component changeouts as required
- Clean and maintain tools and work area
- Train other personnel or apprentices (if required)
- Ensure activities comply with safety, environmental and statutory requirements
- Other duties as assigned by the company
The Electrician - Pit and Shop, responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing electrical systems on large-scale surface mining equipment, including electric shovels, drills, and support equipment. This role is critical to ensuring safe, reliable operation of high-voltage systems in an open pit mining environment while maintaining strict compliance with MSHA regulations.
Physical Requirements
SURFACE ENVIRONMENT
- Must have the ability to stand for up to 4 hours per shift
- Must have the ability to be seated for up to 4 hours to operate equipment or vehicles
- Must have the ability to work from elevated positions, walk/climb up and down stairs/steps and climb on/off equipment and ladders
- Must have the ability to wear required protective footwear, hearing and eye protection, and other personal protective equipment as required by Company and MSHA
- Must have the ability to perform repetitive hand and wrist motions (push, pull, twist, handle), and have rapid reflex movements of the arms/legs and good hand to eye coordination
- Must have the ability to lift/raise 10 – 50 lbs. without mechanical assistance frequently during the work shift
- Must have the ability to work in extreme conditions, including but not limited to changing weather conditions, dust, mud, varying levels of noise from low to high decibels, varying degrees of light/dark, in and around artificial light, and in a confined work area
- Must have the ability to work various shifts (required shifts include days, evening and nights, with rotating schedules, weekends and holidays.
- Strong understanding of:
- High-voltage distribution systems
- AC/DC motors and control systems
- PLC troubleshooting and electrical schematics
- Experience with:
- DC drives and/or AC VFD systems
- Ground fault systems and protection relays
- Proficient in use of:
- Multimeter, megger, amp clamp, and diagnostic tools
- High school diploma or GED
- 3–7 years of heavy industrial or mining electrical experience
- OEM-specific training (e.g., dragline or shovel systems) (preferred)