Wiring Lead

About This Role

As Crusoe’s Wiring Lead, you'll be a pivotal leader on our manufacturing team, coordinating daily performance to ensure schedules are met on time with zero quality and safety incidents. Beyond overseeing your team, you'll jump in to personally work on project tasks, demonstrating your expertise and supporting the team's efficiency without compromising your leadership responsibilities.

You'll master all project functions, enabling you to effectively train, mentor, and continuously improve your team's performance and efficiency. This is a full-time position for a hands-on leader who is dedicated to precision, safety, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Available Shifts: Night Shift: Monday - Thursday 4:00PM - 2:30AM

What You’ll Be Working On

• Team Performance & Communication: Communicate daily department production details, including schedules, material shortages, and team priorities, ensuring all work activities are assigned and coverage is planned for absences. You'll also provide team status updates to the Senior Supervisor, highlighting production constraints and other needs.
• Safety & Quality Oversight: Oversee your team's safety and quality, ensuring all job standards are met and safety procedures are strictly followed in every task.
• Training & Coaching: Train and coach team members on project tasks as needed, continually assessing their skills and identifying specific training needs to enhance overall team capabilities.
• Hands-On Wiring & Assembly: Utilize basic hand tool skills, adhere to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) guidelines, perform drilling and tapping of metal, use correct fixings, and expertly measure, strip, crimp, and cut wires.
• Technical Drawing Interpretation: Read and competently understand controls and electrical manufacturing drawings, ensuring accurate execution of wiring and assembly.
• Manufacturing Procedure Adherence: Maintain a strong understanding of industry manufacturing procedures, ensuring all work aligns with established best practices.
• Cable Management & Termination: Accurately understand cable sizing and use the correct ferrule and crimp sizes for secure and reliable terminations.
• Electrical System Fundamentals: Possess basic knowledge of the differences between power and control wiring, allowing for accurate identification and handling.
• HPI Drawing Expertise: Read HPI (likely an internal standard for Crusoe) drawings and understand cable color coding, ensuring precise wiring based on internal specifications.
• Cross-Functional Liaison: Liaise effectively with project engineers and other project team members regarding manufacturing and drawing standards and procedures, fostering seamless collaboration.
• Field Cabling & Device Installation: Possess basic knowledge of field cabling techniques and securely installing cables, conduit, cable-tray, and trunking. You'll also install and mount field devices, terminating cables to instrumentation, marshaling cabinets, and junction boxes.
• Assembly & Looming Standards: Expertly assemble, wire, and loom to HPI’s standard, ensuring high-quality and organized electrical assemblies.
• Material Level Management: Understand the importance of maintaining sufficient material levels to ensure uninterrupted manufacturing processes.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• Education: High School diploma or GED.
• Experience: 2+ years of prior experience in an electronic assembly environment or as an electrician’s apprentice.
• Technical Drawing Acumen: Ability to read and understand a wide range of blueprints, wiring diagrams, and schematics.
• Electrical Theory Foundation: Must have a reasonable understanding of basic electronic/electrical theory.
• Mechanical Aptitude: Strong mechanical aptitude for hands-on assembly and troubleshooting.
• Attention to Detail: Must be highly detail-oriented, ensuring precision in every wiring and assembly task.
• Adaptable & Collaborative Work Ethic: A proactive self-starter who consistently delivers assigned duties, knows when to seek assistance, and thrives in a team-oriented environment, readily supporting other teams and departments to achieve shared goals
• Communication & Attitude: Possess a good attitude, a willingness to learn, and strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Physical Requirements: Ability to lift, lower, push, and pull all sizes of merchandise up to 50 lbs. Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, and bend for 8 hours or more daily. Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.
• Safety & Compliance: This position is designated a safety-sensitive position and/or is located in a safety-sensitive facility. Drug and alcohol program participation is required. Must be able to pass a background check.

Bonus Points

• Prior management experience.
• Ability to check and modify drawings as needed.
• Licensed Forklift Operator.
• Experience with crating and packaging products.
• Knowledge of UPS and FedEx tracking.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software (e.g., Infor Visual, Acumatica).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance
• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation

Compensation will be in the range of $33-$35/hr + bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Pay will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. (#INDMFG)