Electrician Support Specialist

Ensure Operational Efficiency: By maintaining and troubleshooting electrical systems, you’ll help keep manufacturing processes running smoothly and efficiently.
Enhance Safety Standards: Implementing and adhering to safety protocols will protect your colleagues and the facility from electrical hazards.
Support Continuous Improvement: Your insights and feedback on electrical systems can drive improvements and innovations in manufacturing processes.
Minimize Downtime: Quick and effective repairs will reduce equipment downtime, ensuring production schedules are met.
Collaborate with Teams: Working closely with other departments, you’ll ensure electrical systems meet the needs of various projects and initiatives.
Train and Mentor: Sharing your expertise with junior electricians and other team members will build a stronger, more knowledgeable workforce.
Implement New Technologies: Staying updated with the latest electrical technologies and integrating them into the facility will enhance productivity and efficiency.
Contribute to Sustainability: By optimizing electrical systems for energy efficiency, you’ll support Cummins’ commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility.
Troubleshoots, assembles, installs, tests and maintains electrical systems using all necessary tools to keep equipment available and capable. Learns and understands the protocols of working safely with electricity and other energy sources with industrial equipment. May work independently and instruct or coach others.

Key Responsibilities:

Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Stop work and immediately report any major injury hazards. Report any work-related injury, illness, incident or hazard. Comply with HSE standards, policies, procedures and regulations. Use appropriate personal protective equipment. Promote interdependence by looking out for one another. Correct hazards within your control and capabilities. Recognize how your work may impact the environment and work to minimize the negative impact. Engage in HSE Training. Quality Applies high standards of workmanship and craftsmanship. Support equipment uptime and downtime failure analysis. Performs work in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals and specifications using various tools, measuring and testing instruments. Provide feedback into the Preventive Maintenance system. Follows all process documentation and quality procedures. Raises issues to minimize cost and quality exposures. Performs quality inspections. Delivery Fully proficient performing troubleshooting, electrical repairs and maintenance of equipment . Conforms to applicable codes and standards to maintain, install, and operate electrical systems. Instructs and coaches others and acts as an informal resource for team members with less capability. Maintains clean and orderly work area, including routine housekeeping and machine cleaning tasks. Performs other duties as required to meet business goals. Work with peers and support staff to: Identify and reduce manufacturing constraints Schedule maintenance activities around production requirements Solve problems and improve processes Participate in continuous improvement activities Teamwork Communicates effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams. Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements. Participates actively with local Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) teams in ways to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.

Able to read electrical blueprints, PLC ladder logic troubleshooting preferred. Knowledge of CNC controls preferred. Ability to troubleshoot 5 axis CNC machines including ball screw repairs, gib adjustments and ball screw geometry.

Coordinate troubleshooting, diagnostic, and repairs on complex equipment sometimes with vendors through remote or on-site support.
Be proactive at developing critical spares list, identifying items for MRO crib, and understand vendor lead times including spare part obsolescence risk.
Support documentation updates for equipment that require changes, redlines, etc.
Support design/development/utilization of automation, PLC, communication protocol DeviceNet, Ethernet, Robotics, etc.
Coordinate closely with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to support equipment needs (repair, test, PM, etc.)
 

Technical Expertise: A strong understanding of electrical systems, including installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Problem-Solving Skills: The ability to quickly diagnose and resolve electrical issues to minimize downtime.
Attention to Detail: Precision in your work to ensure safety and efficiency in all electrical tasks.
Safety Awareness: A commitment to following and enforcing safety protocols to protect yourself and your colleagues.
Team Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to work effectively with other departments and team members.
Adaptability: The ability to stay updated with the latest electrical technologies and integrate them into the facility.
Training and Mentoring: Willingness to share your knowledge and train junior electricians and other team members.
Commitment to Sustainability: An understanding of energy-efficient practices to support Cummins’ sustainability goals
Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. 

Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. 

Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions. 

Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. 

Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. 

Nimble learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. 

Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace. 

Controls Safety - Recognizes controls related hazards in a manufacturing environment (Electrical, Hydraulic, Pneumatic) to incorporate safe practices and procedures as part of the daily work plan to reduce injuries and create a safe machine environment. 

Electrical System Troubleshooting - Analyzes an electrical control system to resolve and repair electrical issues to return the system to proper operating conditions. 

Factory Automation and Control Systems - Implements changes to further automate manufacturing processes using available technology, programming techniques, and identifying needed material and resources for project completion to provide the optimum automation for the manufacturing environment. 

Machine Programming - Creates factory floor machine programs by designing and implementing solutions to improve usage of machine and overall operation. 

Manufacturing Knowledge - Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function's needs and contribute towards continuous improvement. 

Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. 

Education, Licenses, Certifications: 
High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations. 
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations. 

Experience: 
Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training or on-the-job experience.