Electrician Apprentice Jobs in Ripon, WI (NOW HIRING)

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. We provide creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by five core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement, and Impact.

BENEFITS we offer:

• Monday - Friday 6a-2p shift
• Competitive wages based on skills and qualifications.
• Clean, climate-controlled work environment.
• Stable employment with a growing company.
• Work with experienced, professional maintenance team.
• 3-6 months of paid training.
• Paid vacation and personal days. 
• 11 paid holidays.
• 401K with company match 
• Health, dental, vision, life insurance options.
• 100% Tuition reimbursement program.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Follow quality requirements to meet or exceed specifications.
• Effectively communicate with employees from your own and other departments to ensure a team environment.
• Understand and apply knowledge of electricity, mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics.
• Commitment, awareness and involvement pertaining to ISO (policy, standards, procedures, etc.) BRC and food safety practices (GMPs, procedures, etc.) are requirements of all employees.
• Read technical drawings, schematics, and diagrams.
• Document technical information through descriptive writing, sketches/diagrams, mathematical expression, computation, and graphs.
• Perform electrical, mechanical, and fluid measurements by properly selecting tools and test equipment.
• Perform electrical/mechanical assembly/disassembly, repair, or calibrate components by properly selecting tools and equipment and following procedures.
• Understand the overall operation and control of machines.
• Assembles wires, insulation and electrical components, such as resistors and capacitors, following method layouts.
• Apply electrical skills to troubleshoot control and operator panels.
• Tests assembled instruments for circuit continuity and operational reliability.
• Analyzes test results and repairs or adjusts instruments according to analysis.
• Calibrates instruments according to specifications.
• Identify faulty equipment through observation and testing.
• Demonstrate persistence when dealing with complex problems.
• Assess the condition of used parts using, micrometers, calipers, and specifications.
• Apply programming languages to the control of single programmable controllers and industrial networks.
• Source replacement parts and perform repairs.
• Safely operate cranes, power tools, hoists, and hand tools.

Qualifications, Education and Experience:

• High School diploma or equivalent (GED) required.
• Product or industry specific machine experience.
• Basic Mechanical Skills
• High School Level Mathematics
• Experience with PLC’s and drives trouble shooting as well as hydraulics, pneumatics and mechanical skills.
• Completed an Electromechanical Apprenticeship Program in a manufacturing environment.
• 7-years’ experience and/or training in a manufacturing facility; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Advanced skills (Journeyman level) required in one or more of the following areas: HVAC, electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, plumbing, carpentry, piping systems and PLC programming.

Work Environment:

Work primarily in a climate controlled indoor environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential. Hearing protection, safety shoes and vision protection required.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must frequently position or move up to 25 - 50 pounds.  Lifting or moving items weighing greater than 50 pounds requires the use of lifting equipment or co-worker assistance.

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