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Zanesville, Ohio, United States
Onsite
Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.
We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to support electrical, instrumentation, and controls engineering projects in a plastics compounding and extrusion manufacturing environment. In this hands-on role, you will help design, specify, troubleshoot, and implement equipment and systems that support safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations. You will work closely with engineering, maintenance, operations, purchasing, vendors, and contractors to move projects from concept through commissioning and startup.
As an Electrical Engineer, you will provide technical support for electrical distribution, instrumentation, and control systems while helping improve plant reliability, safety, and operational performance.
The ideal candidate brings strong technical knowledge, practical field experience, and the ability to collaborate across functions in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.
This is normally a Monday through Friday, Day shift position. Occasional after-hours support may be required based on project, maintenance, or plant needs.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to touch, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
The noise level is usually moderate in an office environment. Some work may be performed in operating units and may require required PPE, including safety glasses and hearing protection. The role may involve exposure to outside elements, use of stairs and elevators, and occasional travel by air or automobile.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.
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