Electrician - Facilities Full Time

Electrician II

UTHealth Houston is Texas' resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. This Electrician II role performs and supervises skilled journey-level electrical work to maintain safe, reliable operations across UTHealth facilities. In this role, you would be installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical systems up to 4160 volts; working with power distribution, lighting, fire alarm, and control systems; and ensuring compliance with safety and workmanship standards. This is a designated essential position, requiring availability during normal business hours and emergencies to support critical operations.

Our total rewards package includes the benefits you'd expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees

• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

Free financial and legal counseling

Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.

Resources for child and elder care

Provides skilled journey level work and supervision in the installation, replacement, alteration, adjustment, repair and planned maintenance necessary to maintain reliable and functionally efficient operations of electrical lighting, generation, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), variable frequency drive (VFD), motor control center (MCC), power factor correction, power distribution, fire alarm, building automation and instrumentation and control systems, fixtures and equipment.

Installs, maintains and alters electrical systems up to 4160 volts for all UTH facilities following standard safety procedures.

Runs conduit, pulls wire and installs circuits for electrically driven units. Maintains a large volume and wide variety of electrical motors, generators, fans, sterilizers, lamps and various medical and laboratory equipment.

Requisitions material, tools and equipment and maintains inventories.

Travels to and from point of arrival and departure to work sites.

Maintains a clean work environment, cleans up and properly stows tools and documents at the end of each workday. Requisitions materials and maintains inventories.

Performs a variety of electrical work incidental to the maintenance of air conditioning, refrigeration and other processes.

Works with and coordinates the tasks of other electricians and lesser skilled workers. Required to carry a university communication device as assigned and respond to calls during normal business hours.

This job classification is designated as essential at the UT Health Science Center at Houston. In case of an emergency, essential positions are those required to sustain clinical services and/or are responsible for the protection of university assets. Personnel in designated essential positions are expected to report to their designated work site during their appointed work schedules, even when the institution has been officially declared to be on restricted access or closed due to adverse conditions.

Journeyman Electrician by Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) required

High School Diploma or equivalent required Completion of a recognized electrician apprenticeship preferred

5 years of related experience at a journeyman level required

Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure.