Job title
Electrical Panel Builder (Entry to Intermediate) – CNC Retrofits
Job summary
The Electrical Panel Builder assembles, mounts, and wires custom industrial control enclosures used to modernize legacy machine tools. Working under the guidance of senior builders and engineering teams, this role focuses on the physical fabrication and wiring of panels incorporating FANUC CNC systems, power supplies, and multi-axis servo drives. This position is ideal for an entry-level or intermediate professional looking to grow their technical skills in motion control automation and industrial machine rewiring.
Key duties
- Travel to customer locations: Help install, repair, troubleshoot, and maintain CNC machines and automation equipment onsite at customer’s facility.
- Component mounting: Layout and securely mount FANUC CNC components, servo amplifiers, spindle drives, power supplies, and standard sub-panels onto enclosure backplates according to provided layout prints.
- Wiring and routing: Cut, strip, crimp, and route wires using plastic trunking and DIN rails, ensuring proper segregation between high-voltage power lines and sensitive low-voltage DC signals.
- Enclosure preparation: Perform basic mechanical fabrication including drilling, tapping, and punching sheet metal enclosures to install line filters, cooling units, and conduit fittings.
- Terminal connections: Execute precise wire terminations for digital and analog I/O arrays, limit switches, operator pushbuttons, and safety interlock circuits.
- Quality checks: Perform point-to-point continuity testing using digital multimeters and verify mechanical hardware tightness with calibrated torque tools before final inspection.
- Documentation: Maintain clean workspaces and accurately record completed assemblies or component counts against the provided bill of materials (BOM).
Job requirements
- Experience: Experience in industrial electrical panel building, electronics assembly, or a related mechanical/electrical trade environment.
- Travel: Ability to travel for customer service work as needed. We serve the Tristate area but have customers throughout the US. Travel onsite to a customer’s facility to install a retrofit or do service work is required.
- Technical skills: Basic familiarity with standard industrial control components (such as PLCs, drives, relays, circuit breakers, and transformers) and a fundamental ability to learn how to read electrical schematics.
- Code compliance: Awareness of or a willingness to learn machine wiring standards and industrial codes, specifically NFPA 79 and UL 508A (preferred but not required).
- Tool proficiency: Comfort using basic hand and power tools, including wire strippers, manual or pneumatic terminal crimpers, power drills, and digital multimeters.
- Education: An Associate’s degree, technical certificate in Industrial Automation/Electrical Systems, or equivalent hands-on industry experience is highly preferred. Trainees with strong mechanical aptitude are welcome to apply.
- Physical demands: High manual dexterity for fine-gauge terminations, the ability to lift up to 50 lbs, and stamina to stand for extended periods on a shop floor.
Pay: $22.00 - $28.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: In person
