ELECTRICIAN

You will trace hard-to-locate defects or problems and complete repairs and installations with little or no advice.

You will perform preventative maintenance, repair, installation, and modification on a variety of thermal plants’ electrical equipment and systems with voltages ranging from 12 to 480 VAC and 1 mVDC to 410 VDC.

You will work from building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering, drawings, and electrical maintenance and repair manuals.

You will install, repair, maintain, troubleshoot, test, and load new and existing electrical lines, circuits, systems, and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment.

You will repair, modify, test, and install equipment and systems within the power and heating boiler plants. This includes; motors, adjustable frequency drives, circuit breakers, transformers, switches, relays, power and control cables.

You will determine and place distribution panels, boxes, fittings, and connections and installs wiring, couplings, conduit relays, fixtures, transformers and other electrical devices including electrical service entrances.

Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying.

Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the job elements and screen out listed below.

This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job. Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible.

The Screen-out Element for this position is: 1) Installing, repairing, and maintaining a variety of complete electrical systems and equipment such as series, parallel, and compound circuits for single and multiple phase alternating current of varying voltage, amperage, and frequency; 2) Interpreting and applying the National Electrical Code, local codes, building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, and engineering drawings, and skill in the use of trade formulas to calculate common properties; 3) Operating hand and power tools, such as cable pullers, hydraulic benders, and pipe threading machines; and a wide variety of test equipment, e.g., meggers, multimeters, frequency meters, watt meters, power factor meters, vibro-grounds, phase rotation meters, audio tone location equipment, high potential testers, ground fault interrupter testing equipment, recording amp meters, circuit analyzers, circuit breaker testers, resistance bridges, and cathodic protection test sets;4) Planning and laying out routing, placement, and arrangement of industrial or similarly complex systems, circuits, controls, and equipment; and 5) Determining installations and repairs including, types, sizes, gauges, and layout of conduit, wiring, couplings, fittings, relays, controls, and distribution panels.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.