When you think of commercial electricians, you think restaurants and small businesses. When you think industrial electrician, think bigger!
Industrial electricians don’t just install wiring for new buildings or re-wire old factories.
The jobs an industrial electrician typically work on range from large processing and packaging machines, all types of industrial automation machinery, and the programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on those types of machines.
They also have to work on things like the SIMATIC S7-1200, which is a serious chunk of computer that is the “brains” behind a lot of big industrial equipment.
See if you think your idea of what an industrial electrician does changes after watching this:
In short, electricians who work at this level are geeks. 🙂