Panel Technician & Assembler -

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At Echo Electric, a brand owned by Sonepar, we are a leader in electrical distribution. Echo Electric represents over $1.2 billion in sales covering Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, and Southern South Dakota. As part of Sonepar, the worldwide leader in electrical distribution, we have a global reach that allows us to offer excellent benefits and develop innovative solutions, while maintaining our strong local roots and close-knit culture. We empower our associates to contribute to our success by adopting the adapt, dare, learn mindset-- adapt to new situations and people, dare to appropriately challenge the status quo, and learn from others and our own experiences.

Our 5 legacy brands known as Holt, PEPCO, Richards, Echo Group and Springfield Electric have become one brand moving forward with a shared culture, strategy, and vision. We are now going to the market under one bold new brand, Echo Electric.

The Panel Technician & Assembler is responsible for the assembly and build of electrical and mechanical projects specified for customers, including but not limited to cutting, drilling, wiring, and installing various components of a project. This position works in close with coordination with project engineers to assure desired project results and timelines are met.

Shift: 7 AM – 4 PM; Monday – Friday

We are looking for associates who:

Project Scope & Planning

• Receives project assignments and instructions
• Reads, reviews, interprets, follows schematics and layouts.
• Assists with estimating projects when required
• Follows and meets project schedules and deadlines.

Project Build & Testing

• Receives, identifies, and sorts components for a project.
• Completes layout and fastens various components, on backplates or in enclosures using schematics and templates.
• Crates, skids, secures and wraps completed projects for shipment.
• Drills, taps, cuts, and prepares knockouts of metal and other materials.
• Wires required components per schematics.
• Route and bundle wiring, cables, etc. in a managed and neat manner.
• Mark-ups as built schematics and layouts.
• Cuts, strips, crimps, bends, labels, and terminates various wire sizes.
• Cuts and installs various types of wire duct and din-rail.
• Supports and understands components for safe operation and installation including but not limited to VFDs, PLCs, HMIs, sensors, pushbuttons, switches, relays, starters, transformers, etc.
• Operates machinery, hand, and power tools in a safe and professional manner.
• Assists with testing and troubleshooting completed projects and connect required devices (sensors, motors, disconnects, power cables, etc.).
• Work safely with and around 480V, 120V, 24V, and pressurized systems, assuring appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is utilized.
• Understands NEC and UL508a regulations and standards.
• Learns and navigates AutoCAD when required.
• Secures wall-mount and free-standing enclosures, when needed and required.

Customer Service

• Quickly finds common ground and solves problems for the good of all.
• Easily gains trust and support of others.
• Maintains an accurate follow-up system for actively tracking promises. made to customers and expediting projects to assure that materials are completed and delivered as scheduled.
• Provides customer with appropriate product information to assure customer is equipped with the knowledge needed to make an informed purchase.
• Resolves customer concerns.
• Encourages collaboration and is viewed as a team player.

Product Knowledge

• Develops and maintains working knowledge of products utilized in project builds.
• Attends product training classes to develop superior product knowledge to apply to customer projects and applications, if and when needed.

Communication & Team Orientation

• Communicates well and respectfully with customers, engineers, fellow associates, management team and manufacturing partners to ensure a professional experience.
• Develops an effective and productive working relationship with branch associates, sales associates and all managers.
• Aptitude to organize, prioritize and complete tasks on time.

Other Responsibilities

• Ability to maintain a clean, organized and safe working environment
• Ability to travel to jobsites, if needed and when required
• Ability to perform other manufacturing tasks as needed depending upon workload
• Performs other duties as instructed or required to successfully complete the job.

What you bring:

• High school diploma and/or technical degree.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and manage several projects and deadlines in a timely manner.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and independently.
• Ability to use, read and interrupt measuring devices such as a tape measure
• Ability to use a computer, operating software and wiring/device marking systems
• Demonstrated ability to assemble and wiring skills

Desirable qualifications, NOT required:

• 1 year of experience as an electrician, technician, assembler, or equivalent education from a technical school
• Understanding of hydraulic and pneumatic devices
• Metal working including but not limited to fabrication, welding, etc.
• Painting experience

What we offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plus employer paid short term and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• 401K match
• Profit Sharing
• Tuition reimbursement and employee development.
• Annual Safety Shoe Reimbursement
• Employee Discount on products
• Access to a variety of trainings for personal development

Who we are:

We’re the world’s number one distributor of electrical products, solutions and related services. Echo Electric is owned by Sonepar, a global company with over 500 locations nationwide. Whether you grow at one of our local Opcos or at one in another region, we want you to grow with us! All associates are regularly trained and we value promoting from within when possible.

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