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Green Bay earned the name Toilet Paper Capital of the World, and its tissue and towel mills along the Fox River still share the city with meatpacking plants and a working Great Lakes port. We train the electrical crews who keep those machines turning, at your facility or in an in-person class we set up in Green Bay when you ask.
Private employers in Wisconsin are inspected by federal OSHA. Every class is live, on the 2027 edition of NFPA 70E, and taught by a Certified Safety Professional. Wisconsin electrical safety training requirements →
Among the teams we have trained in the last year
Four ways to train your Green Bay crew
Crews we train in and around Green Bay: paper and tissue, meat processing, port and bulk terminals, utilities and generation, sports and event venues, public employers.
What the class covers for Green Bay crews
Sectional drives, large motors and DC equipment on tissue and towel machines are a constant troubleshooting job. The 2-Day Intensive spends time on DC hazards and the decision to work energized only when it is truly justified.
A new paper machine wired into a century-old mill means new gear next to equipment with outdated labels or no study at all. We teach how to treat missing or stale arc flash labels and what to ask for before the work starts.
Wet floors, corrosion and ammonia refrigeration motors raise both shock and arc flash risk. We cover how wet locations and enclosure damage change the risk assessment.
Mill outages compress a year of maintenance into a few days with contractors on site. We cover lockout, verification of absence of voltage and host and contractor coordination for those weeks.
Green Bay at a glance
Federal OSHA (Appleton Area Office)
Wisconsin Public Service
Statewide (DSPS)
GRB
Central
Wisconsin: what applies to your crews
Enforcement: federal OSHA
Wisconsin has no OSHA state plan. Private employers in Brown County are handled by federal OSHA's Appleton Area Office. Public employers fall under a separate state program run by the Department of Safety and Professional Services.
Licensing: statewide through DSPS
Wisconsin licenses master, journeyman, industrial journeyman and residential electricians through DSPS, and electrical contractors need their own license. A license and its code-based continuing education do not cover NFPA 70E work practices.
Where NFPA 70E fits
OSHA does not enforce NFPA 70E. Employers use it to show how they meet the electrical requirements in OSHA 1910 Subpart S and 1926 Subpart K, and OSHA can cite the General Duty Clause for a recognized electrical hazard.
Green Bay's electrical work environment
Paper has been made here since 1865. Georgia-Pacific's Broadway mill at 1919 S. Broadway is more than a century old, quit coal for natural gas in 2020 and celebrated a new through-air-dried paper machine in September 2024 to make more Brawny towels. Procter & Gamble's Green Bay plant makes Bounty, Charmin and Puffs.
Green Bay Packaging added a recycled testliner mill in 2021, with a Voith machine designed for 1,200 meters per minute, new gas boilers in place of coal-fired burners and a bio-digester. Not every mill survived. Georgia-Pacific closed its Day Street mill in September 2023 after 122 years, and some of its roughly 200 workers moved to Broadway. For electricians, the region's mills combine large drives, high-speed sectional controls and steam, often in buildings with decades of layered additions.
Food is the other heavy load. JBS's Packerland plant employs more than 1,200 people and American Foods Group also runs a major packing operation, both with ammonia refrigeration and washdown areas that are hard on electrical equipment. Along three miles of the Fox River, 14 terminal operators move salt, wood pulp and other bulk cargo through the port, and Lambeau Field draws crowds and event crews year-round.
Paper mills, packing plants and power along the Fox River
These are the plants and power sites that keep Green Bay's electricians busiest. Most sit within a few miles of the Fox River.
| Site | What is there | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Broadway mill Georgia-Pacific | Tissue and towel mill that added a new paper machine in a $550 million expansion opened in September 2024. | Operating |
| Green Bay paper plant Procter & Gamble | Makes Bounty paper towels, Charmin bath tissue and Puffs facial tissue. | Operating |
| Recycled paper mill Green Bay Packaging | Recycled testliner mill that began production in March 2021 on a Voith XcelLine machine. | Operating |
| Packerland beef plant JBS USA | Beef production plant with more than 1,200 employees. | Operating |
| Green Bay packing operations American Foods Group | One of the city's two major meatpackers alongside JBS. | Operating |
| Pulliam Generating Station Wisconsin Public Service | Coal units retired by 2018; an 83 MW combustion turbine that runs on gas or fuel oil remains. | Operating |
| Fox Energy Center Wisconsin Public Service | Natural gas plant near Kaukauna of nearly 500 MW, acquired by WPS in 2012. | Operating |
| Kewaunee new nuclear EnergySolutions and WEC Energy Group | New generation planned at the retired Kewaunee plant site, with an NRC application targeted by June 2028. | Planned |
Wisconsin Public Service and the Fox Valley grid
Wisconsin Public Service is headquartered in Green Bay and serves more than 450,000 electric customers across 27 counties in eastern, northern and central Wisconsin. Its J.P. Pulliam plant on the bay retired its last coal units in 2018, leaving an 83 MW combustion turbine, while the gas-fired Fox Energy Center near Kaukauna carries much of the local load.
Large mills add their own layer. Many run on-site boilers and steam, and the recent conversions from coal to natural gas at the Broadway mill and Green Bay Packaging changed the equipment electricians maintain. To the east, EnergySolutions and WEC Energy Group are studying new nuclear generation at the retired Kewaunee site, which would bring a long construction workforce to the region if it goes ahead.
Who we train in Green Bay and Northeast Wisconsin
Mill electricians and E&I techs at the Broadway mill, the P&G plant and Green Bay Packaging.
Maintenance electricians at the JBS and American Foods Group plants, working around refrigeration and washdown areas.
Crews maintaining conveyors, cranes and lighting at the terminals along the lower Fox River.
Plant and substation staff at Wisconsin Public Service and the contractors who work its outages.
Facility electricians supporting Lambeau Field and the Titletown District through game days and events.
City, county and school district electricians, who fall under the DSPS public-sector program rather than federal OSHA.
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Questions from Green Bay employers
Can you train our mill crew around a paper machine outage?
Our mill has a new machine and old switchgear. How do you handle that in class?
We are a Brown County public employer. Does OSHA cover us?
Our electricians hold DSPS journeyman licenses. Is that enough?
Does finishing the class make someone a qualified electrical worker?
What the people in the room say
“Virtual can never replace hands-on, but the engagement from our instructor and the class made it feel more engaging than some in-person courses I've taken.”
“Probably one of the most useful safety courses I've ever attended. Rick genuinely cares about people and their well-being.”
“This is the 2nd arc flash training course I've taken and the class was amazing. I feel like I'm leaving the training safer than before I took this class.”
Train your Green Bay crew on the 2027 edition.
Onsite within a few days, or private live virtual as soon as tomorrow. Need it fast? Call (813) 725-0999.