Electrician

Job Title

Electrician

Duties

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Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for installing, modifying, repairing, maintaining, troubleshooting, testing, and loading new and existing electrical lines, circuits, systems, and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment related to secondary power distribution lines and circuits used to supply a wide range of voltage at 460 volts and below, amperage, phase, and frequency requirements, to distribution panels, switchgear, power and control circuits; industrial multiphase systems; thermocouple sensors; electrical intrusion alarm and fire alarm system; emergency warning systems; lighting protection systems; high intensity lighting systems with associated controls; target mechanisms; AC and DC rectification systems; amplifier circuits; and related electrical equipment.
• Responsible for documenting the results of maintenance performed and maintaining preventative maintenance logs.
• Work from building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering, drawings, and electrical maintenance and repair manuals to plan and lay out the routing, placement type, size, gauge, balance, load, continuity, and safe operation of electrical lines, circuits, systems, equipment and controls.
• Determines and places distribution panels, boxes, fittings, and connections and install wiring, couplings, conduit, relays, fixtures, transformers, and other electrical devices including electrical service entrance.
• Plans and lays out work from electrical and electronic block diagrams, wiring diagrams, schematics, and technical orders.
• Electrician performs required programming, pretests, functional testing, and final testing to ensure proper operation of complete system. Also performs final tuning, alignment, and/or calibration of highly complex systems, components and/or subassemblies.
• Installs, overhauls, repairs, fabricates and/or modifies electronically controlled industrial systems, components and/or subassemblies.
• Performs work on electronic control systems to include disassembly, repair, or replacement of parts inherent of each system. Installs repairs and maintains highly complex systems of electronic sensing and controls, including centralized monitoring and control systems that use special purpose, dedicated computers to store operating parameters and initiate adjustments. Responsible for Programmable Logic Controls (PLC) and system maintenance.

Work Schedule:

Monday - Friday 7:00am - 3:30pm

Position Description Title/PD#:

Electrician/PD13800

Physical Requirements:

Makes repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and other hard-to-reach places. Requires standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing, and working in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Frequently lifts and carries tools, equipment, and parts that weigh up to 20 pounds, periodically up to 40 pounds. Occasionally, they lift or move with assistance moderately heavy objects weighing more than 40 pounds.

Working Conditions:

The work is performed both inside and outside. The incumbent is sometimes required to make repairs and installations in bad weather; in work areas that are noisy, dirty, dusty, and greasy; on scaffolding or cranes at heights of 30 feet or more; and in close quarters such as manholes, tunnels, and crawl spaces. Frequently exposed to the possibility of injury such as cuts and bruises, injury from falling, electrical shock, burns, and rotary devices such as electrical motors.