E&I Technician

Job Overview

Georgia‑Pacific in Brewton, AL is hiring an Electrical & Instrumentation Technician to operate and maintain PLCs, motors, drives, instrumentation, schematics, and troubleshooting to increase uptime and reliability. Start pay is $41.86 hourly. The regular schedule is 7:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m., Monday‑Friday, with overtime and on‑call rotations as required.

• Perform electrical maintenance tasks relative to the maintenance department’s workload.
• Perform preventative and corrective maintenance work orders.
• Monitor equipment and machinery for electrical maintenance deficiencies.
• Maintain the cleanliness of the work environment.
• Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
• Perform work in high and/or confined spaces.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Five years or more of E&I troubleshooting experience OR a two‑year technical degree with three years or more of E&I troubleshooting experience.
• Experience troubleshooting electrical controls, PLCs, A/C and D/C motors, motor controllers and drives.
• Experience troubleshooting and repairing hydraulics, pneumatics, and instrumentation systems, including pressure transmitters, level transmitters, flow meters (orifice plate and flow tubes), analyzers (pH, ORP, Oxygen, conductivity), temperature transmitters, and thermocouples.
• Experience reading technical drawings and schematics.
• Experience rebuilding, troubleshooting, and calibrating control valves, actuators, positioners, and transducers.
• Experience with control sensing devices such as proximity sensors, photo‑eyes, lasers, etc., as well as environmental monitoring systems such as the thermal oxidizer, opacity monitors and flares.

• Three years or more of industrial electrician experience.
• Three years or more of experience working with process control instrumentation and field sensors.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (ADD), and disability insurance.
• Retirement plan.
• Paid vacation and time off.
• Educational assistance.
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E‑Verify.