Electrician Helper

Electrician Helper

As an Electrician Helper, you will assist the Electrician in the installation and adjustment (construction) or maintenance and repair (maintenance) of electrical equipment in substations. This involves the handling of tools and materials, and the performance of other tasks required to support the Electrician. Work is assigned and supervised by the Electrician Foreman. The incumbent performs all duties without more than normal supervision and in compliance with government regulations, BPA safety rules, and the BPA-CPTC Collective Agreement.

Responsibilities include:

• Lay out and move tools about and hand them to higher grade workers, lay out materials and parts, pick up old materials and keep area clean.
• Acquire materials, and prepare retired and/or excess materials for shipment.
• Perform a variety of lesser skilled tasks as determined by Electrical Foreman on the job incidental to the work of journeymen electricians. These tasks require the use of some tools such as power hacksaws, pipe threaders, drills, etc.
• Assist journeymen electricians by having the proper tools and material on hand to perform the assigned jobs.
• Keep general work area and tools clean, and perform any assigned excavation and backfill work for underground conduit or grounding.
• When journeymen are working off the ground in steel racks, the Electrician Helper may be required to use the tools necessary to cut and thread conduit, cut bus, and clean up bus fittings. If the work being performed is from an approved scaffold or manlift device, the Helper may be required to assist the journeyman from this level.
• Work with hazardous waste and materials.