Master Electrician

About This Role

This Master Electrician role involves installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical systems for essential mining equipment and infrastructure, both underground and on the surface. It is an opportunity for an electrician who excels in hands-on work within a unique and challenging industrial environment, ensuring safety, reliability, and optimal performance.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventative maintenance, installation, and repair of all electrical equipment and power and lighting systems in the facility, including motors, generators, transformer controls and mechanisms, timing devices, switches, cable, and conduits
• Apply electrical theory and related knowledge to test the operation of electrical machinery and electrical control equipment and circuitry
• Work with 480-15,000 VAC 3 phase motor control systems
• Test motor-controlled devices, switch panels, transformers, generator windings, and other electrical equipment and components
• Diagnose system malfunctions, isolate causes, and correct deficiencies
• Dismantle and reassemble equipment
• Perform preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance, and diagnose causes of electrical malfunction or failure
• Use different hand and diagnostic tools for testing and fixing equipment
• Inspect and perform daily routine housekeeping as necessary to ensure a clean and safe work area
• Complete assigned paperwork and reporting accurately during and at the end of shift
• Perform all job duties with minimum supervision
• Direct workers engaged in the installation and repair of electrical equipment
• Work safely, responsibly, and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations
• Be alert to hazards and changing conditions on all mine property
• Communicate with management any situation that may affect the safety of any employee or other issues that affect production or quality of product
• Cross-train and multi-task with varied skill sets and functions
• Perform incidental tasks as required to complete the larger task
• Perform work of the craft in a rapid and efficient manner under extreme conditions
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• High school diploma/GED required
• Journeyman card or Master Electrician license
• Electrical certification or license
• 8+ years of experience as an electrician in an industrial environment
• Electrical experience supporting industrial operations, including knowledge and troubleshooting experience to locate and diagnose trouble in electrical systems or equipment
• Experience and understanding of programmable logic controllers (PLC/VFD)
• 8+ years of experience working with blueprints, drawings, layouts, or other specifications
• 8+ years of experience with some but not limited to the following types of equipment: electrical switch gear, motor starters, transformers, generators, relay logic, PLC, VFD, etc.
• Knowledge of and ability to use all tools and equipment of the craft
• Ability to train others
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills
• Ability to speak, comprehend, and read English
• Must be able to wear all proper PPE including steel-toed shoes and safety glasses
• Must be able to work safely in varying temperatures in production/warehouse workplace and outside year-round
• Must be capable of lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling loads up to 50+ lbs.
• Must be able to climb, crawl, stoop, bend, squat, and reach as required to work on equipment
• Must be able to pass physical and drug test

About the Company

Detroit Salt is a historic organization with a rich legacy spanning over 100 years, originating in 1906 as a salt producer for leather and food processing. Since 1997, Detroit Salt has supplied local and national customers with tons of rock salt and premium ice melter formulations. The fruit of this labor is apparent in the salt city 1,200 feet beneath the city of Detroit, spanning more than 1,500 acres and containing over 100 miles of underground roads. The company prides itself on upholding the highest standards of safety for its staff and the surrounding community.