Electrical Technician
Johnson Matthey
- Devon, PA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Employee will comply with all Johnson Matthey Hazardous Waste procedures and local, state and federal regulatory requirements.
- Receives wiring diagrams, specifications and instructions covering the scheduled and emergency repair, installation, and inspection work to be done.
- Analyses all types of drawings and wiring diagrams to locate the install circuits and equipment to determine material or replacement needs and to select a logical approach to “Trouble Shooting” and repair problems.
- Plans details or working procedures to affect the most logical approach to job completion.
- Considers all safety precautions and proper isolation of circuits to cause a minimum of interference to operations.
- Determine necessary tools and materials.
- Plans to perform work requiring a thorough knowledge of electrical principles, wiring specifications codes, properties of various materials and principles of operation and application of equipment.
- Locates sources of trouble of any type of electrical equipment by tracing and testing circuits and inspecting for faulty operations.
- Uses PLC interface as required to diagnose equipment-related problems with computer-controlled equipment.
- Dismantles, inspects, repairs, adjusts, or replaces faulty parts and wiring on motors, generators, power distribution and control panels, circuit breakers, rectifiers, electronic devices, etc.
- Reassembles, tests, and adjusts equipment for safe and proper operation.
- Performs work on “hot lines” as required.
- Replaces coils, resistors, rheostats, relays, etc. Adjusts contractors, relays, bus rigging, etc.
- Reconnects terminal leads, panel boards and distribution feeders.
- In emergencies, shunts out defective coils in order to get equipment back in operation.
- Changes DC motor characteristics by shunting series coils, etc.
- Installs conduit, fittings, switches, controls and fixtures and wires and connects all types of electrical equipment as required for new installation or replacement of facilities.
- Make all required splices and connector joints.
- Adjusts all new equipment for proper operating characteristics.
- Able to perform repairs, adjustments, etc. to state-of-the-art electrical components, i.e. (inverter drives, SCR units, programmable controllers, etc.).
- Employee will comply with all Johnson Matthey Hazardous Waste procedures and local, state and federal regulatory requirements.
- High School diploma
- Electrical trade school certification
- Operates forklifts, aerial scissor lifts and boom lifts
- Forklift operation
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