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Joseph Sprouse

Dyer, IN ***** 219-***-**** *********@*****.***

Electrician

Electrician/ Instrumentation Tech, with 40+ years of experience supporting plant operations and manufacturing by troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining equipment, systems, and instrumentation.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Plant Electronics Maintenance

Instrument Technician

Skid Loader / Fork Lift Trained

Conduit / Wire Installation

Hydraulics and Pneumatics

Commissioning & Upgrades

Transmitters & Control Systems

H&S / NEC Compliance

Foxboro and Honeywell VFDs

Yokogawa and Toshiba VFDs

DCS / PLCs / Thermocouples

Digital/Analog Voltmeters

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ELECTRICIAN Innophos, Chicago Heights, IL 5/2007 to 3/2025

Minimize operational downtime through maintenance, instrumentation, troubleshooting, and repair of all plant equipment including boilers and fire systems, motors, PLCs, VFDs, mills, kilns, drums, packaging systems, generators, HVACs, and reactors.

Interpret blueprints, schematics, and P&IDs to carry out installations and upgrades of electrical equipment and machinery within a phosphate processing plant.

Conduct startups or shutdowns and calibrate all plant instrumentation and controls.

Reduce company expenses by fabricating mechanical components necessary for pending repairs.

Maintain downtime schedules and reports on problems’ root cause, operations, and technical details.

ELECTRICIAN Acme Steel Chicago, Il 1/1975to 3/2007

Spearheaded preventive and corrective maintenance of all equipment, systems, and instruments within an electronics manufacturing plant. Identified potential operational or health & safety risks, conducted root cause analysis, and quickly removed hazards.

Troubleshot and repaired generators, power distribution system, motors, capacitors, transformers, lighting/electronic circuits, A/C, and electronic systems controlling hydraulics and pneumatics.

Interpreted ladder logic programs, one line diagrams, P&IDs, loop sheets, and blueprints to troubleshoot equipment problems and to determine and calibrate optimum equipment settings.

Assisted with upgrade or commissioning projects and reported scope of operations and supply needs.

Additional experience troubleshooting and conducting instrumentation and preventive or corrective plant maintenance as Electrician from 1975 to 2006 with Visteon, Fermilab, and ACME Steel and Metals.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATES

Associate of Applied Science in Engineering Technology Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL

Certified Computer Repair Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL

Associate of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering Technology Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL

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