Apprentice Electrician - Traveling with Sapphire Companies LLC

Electrician Position

If you are looking for work, we are hiring! We need electricians with at least two years of commercial electrical experience to help us continue to grow. Sapphire Companies has more work than we have employees, and with our needs, we make sure to treat our employees like they should be treated. We are licensed in over 20 states, and our bread and butter is working on Walmart Remodels. It is traveling and it is night shift work.

Apprentice electricians work under the observation of a journeyman-level electrician, building basic skills and gaining additional tasks and responsibilities as they improve.

Essential Functions Include but are not limited to:

• Measure, cut, and bend wire and conduit, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
• Maintain tools, vehicles, and equipment and keep parts and supplies in order.
• Perform semi-skilled and unskilled laboring duties related to the installation, maintenance, and repair of a wide variety of electrical systems and equipment.
• Disassemble defective electrical equipment, replace defective or worn parts, and reassemble equipment, using hand tools.
• Thread conduit ends, connect couplings, and fabricate and secure conduit support brackets, using hand tools.
• Examine electrical units for loose connections and broken insulation and tighten connections, using hand tools.
• Drill holes and pull or push wiring through openings, using hand and power tools. Clean work area and wash parts.
• Dig trenches or holes for installation of conduit or supports.
• Strip insulation from wire ends, using wire stripping pliers, and attach wires to terminals for subsequent soldering.
• Trace out short circuits in wiring, using test meter.
• Install copper-clad ground rods, using a manual post driver.
• Break up concrete, using air hammer, to facilitate installation, construction, or repair of equipment.
• Erect electrical system components and barricades, and rig scaffolds, hoists, and shoring.
• Transport tools, materials, equipment, and supplies to work site by hand, hand truck, or heavy, motorized truck.
• Construct controllers and panels, using power drills, drill presses, taps, saws and punches.
• Raise, lower, or position equipment, tools, and materials, using hoist, hand line, or block and tackle.
• Requisition materials, using warehouse requisition or release forms.