1st Shift Industrial Electrician/Electricista Industrial 1-Turno

Are you a knowledgeable, hard-working electrician looking for a full-time job with steady work and benefits? Do you enjoy the challenge of repairing and even rebuilding parts? Villari Foods is currently seeking an Industrial Electrician with a minimum of one year’s experience to help maintain, repair, and troubleshoot our industrial equipment and systems, as well as help with general electrical maintenance work. If this sounds like the kind of thing you light up for, keep reading!

The physical environment for this job varies (you can read more about it below); our warehouse is kept at freezer temperatures for the preservation of the meat, but this individual will also work in room temperature settings, depending on where they’re needed. This position will require flexibility availability with the need for overtime. These hours will range from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Job duties:

Maintain, repair, troubleshoot, and install industrial manufacturing equipment and systems

Maintain, repair, troubleshoot, and install medium-voltage electrical distribution systems – 24 vac/vdc to 480 ac volt systems

Repair and rebuild electrical replacement parts for industrial manufacturing equipment and systems

General electrical maintenance work, as needed

To qualify for this job you must have:

High School diploma or GED

Minimum one-year experience as an Industrial Electrician

Knowledge of the following:

AC/DC 

Electrical control wiring systems

Power distribution systems

Electrical motor control / VFD

Electro-fluid power systems

Electronic sensors

Basic mechanical drive system

Ability to install and bend conduit

We’d also love it if you:

Are a licensed electrician (preferred but not required)

What Villari Food Group offers you:

Competitive compensation

Opportunity to earn overtime hours

Medical Insurance

Company-paid life insurance

401K

Paid vacation days and holidays

Employee discounts on Villari meat products

Opportunities for employee recognition

Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!

Employment with a great team and a highly experienced supervisor

How Villari Foods is different:

As a family-owned and operated business, we’re more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.

We’re a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You aren’t just a number.

The experience each employee has working at Villari is important to us. That’s why we strive for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids eventual burnout.

Physical requirements and work environment:
The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment will include cold temperatures between 50℉ to 10℉  (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals. Villari Foods will provide cold-weather gear to you.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud.

Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds

Able to drive a registered motor vehicle to satisfy daily requirements

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Able to speak and hear for safety and productivity

Use scanners, tablets, radios, phones, and other warehouse machinery

Frequently required to stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach, and pull

Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

More about Villari Foods:
Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history. As a teenager, Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life. Today, at Villari Foods, we combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen. With the fourth Villari generation now entering the business, our family remains dedicated to ensuring an exceptional experience for all who enjoy our products.

We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, food service, and export markets. We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, organic, and free of antibiotics, hormones, and steroids. And we’re well known for our smoked products.

As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options. We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.

EEO Statement:

Villari Food Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.