Electrician

Job Title

Electrician

Location

Lt. Col. Luke Weathers VA Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee

Facility Overview

The VAMC in Memphis, Tennessee consists of one main campus located at 116 N. Pauline St., which includes a 12-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and ten community based outpatient clinics (CBOC). It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility and one of the most complex medical centers in the VA system. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as extensive education and research programs. Comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary health care is provided in areas of medicine, general cardiovascular and neurological surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, dentistry, and geriatrics. Specialized outpatient services are provided through general, specialty, and subspecialty outpatient clinics including a women's health center. Services are available to more than 206,000 Veterans living in a fifty-three county tri-state area (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi).

Duties

The Electrician duties include, but are not limited to:

• Install, modify, repair, maintain, troubleshoot, test and verify loads on new and existing electrical lines, circuits, system and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment.
• Determine and install distribution panels, boxes, fittings, and connections and install wiring, coupling, conduit, relays, fixtures, transformers and other electrical devices.
• Determine how to repair and install including such things as the types, sizes, gauges and lay out of conduit, wiring, couplings, fittings, relays, controls and distribution panels and other electrical devices used in a variety of complete electrical systems and the best methods of installation and repair.
• Fabricate new equipment when none is commercially available.
• Responsible for the safe and proper operation of systems and equipment and for compliance with the National Electrical Code.
• Work, both orally and in writing, with the assignment of work orders.
• Plan and lay out routing, placement and arrangement of industrial or similar complex systems, circuits, controls and equipment.
• Put into practice the National Electric Code, local codes, building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, and engineering drawings and related trade formulas.
• Interpret electrical schematics.
• Use complex diagrams and electrical blueprints to complete work on amplifier circuits and AC and DC rectification systems on pertinent equipment.
• Working 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.
• Repairing electronic/electrical segments of air conditioning and ventilating systems, communication systems, fire alarm systems, emergency power plants and motors and controls.

Work Schedule

Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Position Description Title/PD#

Electrician/PD00008A

Physical Requirements

See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Service for requirements.