Job description

About Us
At Appvion, we innovate sustainable specialty coating solutions that are a part of many tickets, tags, labels, and packages you touch every day. We serve a wide range of markets such as retail, healthcare, transportation, entertainment, and food packaging. Our goal as a 115-year company is to continue aligning our expertise with the needs of the sustainably minded consumer.

Growth Focused, Be Authentic, Win Together. Our three values embody how our purpose manifests into attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Everything we do stems from our core values – they shape how we do our job, lead decision-making, and guide how we show up in the world.

Benefits
1st of the month benefit eligibility following date of hire, which may include the following benefits:

• Medical, dental, life, and vision insurance.
• 24/7 onsite gym/wellness center, free of charge.
• Vacation (awarded based on industry related experience) & 12 paid holidays per year.
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $5,250 per year) & scholarships for dependents.
• 401(k), employee assistance program, AD&D, STD, LTD & more!

Compensation

• This is an hourly position with a starting pay of $36.96 per hour for 1st shift. The rotating shift has a premium of $1.18 per hour (a total hourly wage of $38.14).
• Double time is awarded for any hours worked during each Sunday of the year.

Shift

• Start on 1st shift (6am-3pm Monday through Friday, a 45-hour work week).
• Must be willing to also work rotating 12s (6am to 6pm and 6pm to 6am on a 2-week rotation), based on upcoming retirements and changes to seniority preferences.

Responsibilities Include

• Work safely and actively participates in a culture of safety minded team members.
• Perform preventative and predictive maintenance on production and facilities related equipment to ensure proper and safe operation of all systems.
• Troubleshoot and repair both low voltage and high voltage circuits in a timely and orderly manner.
• Perform basic and advanced diagnosis to determine root cause failure with the aid of blueprints and schematics, also perform replacement of motors, meters, switches, photo-eyes and other electrical components.
• Effectively analyze PLC’s, HMI’s, and VFD’s for improper operation and perform corrective measures.
• Effectively utilize tools such as PC’s, multimeters, thermography, vibration analysis, and oscilloscopes to troubleshoot electrical equipment.
• Effectively utilize a computerized maintenance management system to retrieve assigned work and document maintenance activities such as work completed, parts request, inventory usage, etc.
• Install new electrical control systems and maintain existing control systems as directed.
• Advanced team members will design, layout, program, install new equipment.
• Effectively communicate both verbally and written with managers, supervisors, schedulers, as well as maintenance and operations team members.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Abilities Include

• Possess a 5-year apprenticeship state industrial journeyman’s card, required.
• Completed 1-year course for 50-414-2 Electrical & Instrumentation, required.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience as an Industrial Electrician or Technician in a related field.
• Perform tests and maintenance procedures for instruments used for measuring and controlling flow, level pressure, temperature, and other variables in manufacturing and processing.
• Calibrate components and instruments according to manufacturer’s specifications.
• Install control and measurement instruments on existing and new plant equipment and processes.
• Experience in PLC and HMI programming in closed loop control systems.
• Advanced VS drive systems experience with web handling equipment.
• Ability to work in a USW Union environment.
• Ability to work 12-hour swing shift that includes weekend.
• Personal computer skills in Microsoft products, networking, and computer maintenance.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated continuing self-development.
• Strong leadership, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, and as part of a team to reach a common goal.

A post-offer background check, and pre-employment physical with a drug screen is required.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $36.96 - $38.14 per hour

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Appleton, WI 54911: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

License/Certification:

• State Journeyman License (Required)

Work Location: In person

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