Industrial Electrician

Job Description

Job Description

Primary Job Role

• Understands and applies blueprints and technical diagrams.
• Inspects electric components including transformers and circuit breakers.
• Uses testing devices to identify and report electrical problems. Tests existing installations to determine faults and makes necessary repairs.
• Installs, repairs, replaces and maintains electrical wiring systems and components. Installs EMT, rigid conduit, wire step down transformers, and rigid conduit bending.
• Uses hand and power tools.
• Adheres to National Electrical Code.
• Completes work orders on time.
• Completes all required paperwork such as material counts, materials used and time sheets.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Safety: fully supports, encourages and follows safe work behavior, and considers safety of paramount importance in the workplace.
• Job Specific Skills: Demonstrates the required depth and mastery of knowledge and skill associated with the job as identified in the Learning Management System (LMS) and other applicable sources. Demonstrates the effective application of the job specific knowledge, skills and ability required to resolve job related challenges in the workplace. Refer to job specific training requirements for the job identified in the LMS.
• Takes Initiative: Takes appropriate action to resolve issues without requiring direction. Seeks out others involved in a situation to learn their perspectives. Makes difficult decisions in a timely manner. Is willing to make decisions in difficult or ambiguous situations, when time is critical. Assertive in a group when it is necessary to facilitate change, overcome an impasse, face issues, or ensure that decisions are made.
• Customer Oriented: Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers. Responsive, quickly and effectively addresses customer concerns or problems. Assures customers he/she is willing to work with them to meet their needs. Presents a cheerful, positive manner with customers.
• Adaptability: Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities. Adapts approach, goals, and methods to achieve solutions and results in dynamic situations. Recovers quickly from setbacks, and finds alternative ways to reach goals or targets. Open to different and new ways of doing things; willing to modify one's preferred way of doing things.
• Managing Change: Demonstrates support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization's effectiveness. Helps individuals and groups manage the anxiety associated with significant change. Establishes processes to manage the orderly implementation of change.
• Stress Management: Keeps functioning effectively when under pressure and maintains self-control in the face of hostility or provocation. Remains calm under stress. Can effectively handle several problems or tasks at once. Controls response when criticized, or provoked.
• Fostering Teamwork: Listens and responds constructively to other team members' ideas. Offers support for others' ideas and proposals. Is open with other team members about his/her concerns. Works for solutions that all team members can support.
• Innovative: Sees old problems as opportunities for creative problem solving while staying within the parameters of good practice. Develops and fosters better, faster, or less expensive ways to do things. Thinks in terms of desired outcomes, not just reactive, quick solutions. Energized by any challenge that stands in the way. Remains agile and adapts in a high degree of ambiguity.
• Self-Aware: Conscious of one's own feelings, character and personality and the implications for how your behavior impacts others. Understands personal goals, strengths, weaknesses and motivating forces in one's life. Has an awareness of one's most important personal beliefs and values. Accepts personal weaknesses and works to improve these areas.

Requirements

Formal Education High School diploma or GED

Experience 5-6 years

• Able to easily and effectively comprehend written material and communicate orally and in writing with employees and customers.
• Commercial and/or industrial electrical experience.
• Knowledge of 480vac, phase colors for 480-volt 3-phase and 120/240-volt systems.
• Very detailed oriented.

• Some DC voltage experience preferred.
• Power generation experience preferred.

• Job requirements change requiring re-training to stay current every 1-2 years.

Problem Solving Job requires problem solving ability, established examples / guidance are not always available

Creativity Job requires some creativity to generate solutions or improve effectiveness within well-established boundaries.

Autonomy Job is closely monitored and allows for no significant discretion or independence in scheduling or methods of completing assigned work.

Stress Load Regular exposure to these stresses (20-80% of the time).

Workload Fluctuation Job involves occasional changes in priorities, complexity and/or quantity of work.

Work Schedule Work is typically performed during regular business hours with occasional requirements to work nights, holidays and weekends.