Electrical Maintenance Technician

Ascend Elements is revolutionizing the production of lithium-ion battery materials by establishing a clean and sustainable supply chain using recycled feedstock. Its patented Hydro-to-Cathode™ technology directly synthesizes new cathode materials from spent lithium-ion cells more efficiently than traditional methods, resulting in reduced cost, improved performance, and lowered greenhouse gas emissions. The results are lower cost, better performing batteries, a cleaner manufacturing process, and a truly sustainable closed-loop circular battery economy. This closed-loop process also allows for fewer end-of-life batteries being discarded in landfills. Ascend Elements is taking the lithium-ion battery industry to a higher level.

Electrical Maintenance Technician! In this role you will be responsible for providing repair, preventive, and emergency maintenance services to production, utility operations, and infrastructure systems as necessary to provide for safe operations, regulatory compliance, and equipment availability related electrical distribution equipment systems plant wide.

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Incorporate safe behavior into all activities and consistently comply with all established safety and health policies and procedures including Lock, Tag, Try and Test Before Touch.
• Perform maintenance of production units, utility, and infrastructure systems.
• Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain electrical distribution systems including equipment termination. Example assets include electrical distribution providing power to compressor systems, shredders, bagging stations, conveyors, pumps, agitators, and the Distributed Control System (DCS).
• Troubleshoot and perform preventive maintenance tasks upon 120V circuits, 480V 3-Phase switch gear, Sub Stations up to 15KV, transformers, motor control centers, motor starters, fuses/breakers, variable speed drives, and UPS systems.
• Perform routine and emergency maintenance on production unit, utility, and infrastructure equipment. Example activities include performing switching of distribution and transmission gear, wiring motor junction boxes, terminating electrically driven equipment at switch gear, pulling/installing 480V motor control cubicles, wiring actuators/sensors, performing switchgear IR scans, performing GFCI checks, troubleshooting breakers, maintaining surge arresters, replacing lighting and indicators, megging motor leads, etc.
• Use Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) effectively to document and accomplish required maintenance in an efficient and organized manner.
• Optimize plant preventive maintenance program to meet OEM recommendations, regulatory requirements, and corporate maintenance philosophy.
• Provide maintenance procedure and training development assistance for new equipment.
• Provide start-up support to production operations.
• Perform On-the-Job Training with new members of the team.
• Cooperate with groups and individuals within the Engineering & Maintenance department, Operations, contractors, and other service units.
• Act as liaison between suppliers/manufacturers and manufacturing partners for problems with electrical equipment.
• Perform all tasks and assignments in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Other tasks and duties as assigned.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Be committed to and support the EHS management process to obtain the ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certification as well as participate in system standards and practices in its compliance and commitment to policies, objectives, operational controls, documentation, system guidelines, and others that the organization subscribes to as mandatory.
• Will participate in all EHS aspects, including reporting hazards, incidents, and injury/illness without fear of reprisal.
• Attend an Environment, Health, and Safety Orientation program appropriate to their work environment.
• Follow 6S step-by-step methodology to maintain orderly workspaces and resources thereby enhancing productivity and safety.

Required Skills / Abilities:

• High School Diploma
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience preferred, maintaining electrical distribution system components preferably in a chemical plant, refinery, or large process plant
• Proficiency in the safe use of precision measuring instruments, power tools, and hand tools
• Applied knowledge of industrial common electrical maintaining skills pertaining to 120V, 480V services, electrical distribution and transmission gear, hand rigging/hoisting, and ground fault protection.
• Thorough understanding of basic electrical theory, troubleshooting techniques, and safe work practices
• Able to read and comprehend single line drawings and p