Job Details
** Smith & Loveless Inc.**
** Electrical Assembler**
Lenexa, KS 66215
**ELECTRICAL ASSEMBLER**
For 70 years, Smith & Loveless has cutting-edge environmental engineering ingenuity and quality craftsmanship to the water industry by pioneering superior pre-engineered , , and headworks systems. Smith & Loveless's pre-engineered water and wastewater treatment and pumping systems have paved the way for municipalities, developments, industry, governmental, and military facilities. Smith & Loveless's energy-efficient and durable systems deliver unrivaled life-cycle cost savings.
This is an exciting opportunity to use your electronic wiring skills in a custom fabrication shop. We do not have an assembly line here. We build custom-made wastewater pumping systems and treatment plants for industrial and municipal applications. We need control panels built to spec to run the pumps and treatment plants. Thus every panel you build is unique. We need highly skilled Electrical Assemblers to build these panels to spec.
**Primary Function**
Assembles all electrical, electronic, solid-state, and wiring circuit equipment in control panels to produce a completed and tested electrical panel and related electrical products. After being completed and tested, the employee is required to assemble, install, and test all electrical apparatuses. **You will be required to build electrical control panels from electrical drawings from our electrical engineering team**. We custom build wastewater pumps and treatment plants, so each control panel will be different from the next.
**Experience with the following Tools and Equipment:**
Air and electric drill motors, knock-out punches, hole saws; wire strippers, soldering equipment, electric tapping gun, crimp tool, hacksaw, electrical testing equipment, conduit cutters, and benders, V-0-M meters, megger, National Electrical code specifications.
**Experience with the following Materials:**
Wire, conduit, starters, breakers, switches, conduit fittings, blowers, dehumidifier units, motors, lights, wiring harness, electronic components, wire switches, rectifiers, terminal blocks, transformers, relays, thermostats, humidistats, gauges, alarm bubblers, filters, air piping, sub-assemblies, air compressors, cable, and other related materials.
**Job Duties:**
- Works from verbal instructions, wiring diagrams, manufacturing specifications, factory orders, accumulated experience, schematic drawings, bills of material, etc.
- Lays out control panel cabinets to accommodate the materials provided.
- Drills and cuts necessary holes for conduit, switches, etc.
- Assembles parts in control cabinets and wires per wiring diagrams or schematics using performed wiring harnesses where possible, but forming own harness where materials and conditions require.
- Checks and tests equipment under simulated operating conditions, producing tested, electrical control panels, and electrical products.
- Checks electrical functions and takes corrective action to correct faults in circuitry or components and may make suggestions to the supervisor.
- Checks work from engineering orders, wiring diagrams, and schematics for inconsistency and report the same to the supervisor, and makes corrective suggestions.
- Installs control panels, conduit, transformers, and other electrical apparatus.
- Wires and connects control panels, motors, dehumidifiers, air conditioners, alarms, lights, blowers, etc.
- Cuts, bends, and threads conduit.
- Plans and lays out work procedures.
- Makes electrical hook-ups and test equipment under simulated or actual conditions.
- Reports abnormal conditions of equipment or product to the supervisor.
- Can use overhead cranes and jib cranes to hang control panels and to install and locate electrical components and sub-assemblies during the pre-test, test, and final assembly.
- Observes all safety rules and regulations and keeps the work area clean and orderly.
**Qualifications**:
* MUST be able to wire control panels from drawings and wiring diagrams.
* **Must be able to read and interpret electrical drawings/wiring diagrams**
* Minimum of 2 years' experience in writing electronic components.
* AA degree in Electronics is desirable.
**We are proud to offer our employees** ***:***
* Medical Insurance
* Dental Insurance
* Life & AD&D Insurance
* Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
* Paid Vacation & Sick/Personal Time
* Annual Bonus
* 401K w/Match
We are a union shop.
**A Great Place for Your Career**
Be a part of the Smith & Loveless team, which develops smarter and more efficient ways to solve the world's environmental challenges. Based in metropolitan Kansas City, with offices and affiliates in suburban Denver, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, and Auckland, we design, engineer, manufacture, install, and service industry-leading solutions for the transfer, purification, and conservation of our worlds most precious resource, water.
As an industry leader in water treatment and pumping system solutions, Smith & Loveless offers challenging careers across various business and technical functions in diversified regional, national, and international markets. Our careers provide opportunities for all kinds of people, from those in the beginning stages of their career all the way to experienced professionals.
With a diverse product line of solutions and equipment installed in more than 75 nations globally, Smith & Loveless employees enjoy our strong company reputation, innovative brands, and a proud legacy of success in making the world a better place.
Our world headquarters are located in Lenexa, Kansas, a convenient drive from anywhere in the **Kansas City area.**
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
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