Electrical Technician

Pay:

$20 - $40/hour

Summary:

Performs maintenance, installation, repair and troubleshooting of electrical systems by applying electrical principles.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Repairing and replacing defective parts in controllers, switchboards, switches, conductors, and other electrical fixtures.
• Installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical components of machinery and equipment, including transformers, generators exciters, and hydraulic and pneumatic devices.
• Performing preventive repair and maintenance of field electrical systems, devices, equipment and components.
• Testing solid state circuitry to find defective parts in digital and analog equipment, specifically cell prox circuits for frequency and 4-20 milliamp control circuits.
• Installing enhancements and major upgrades to electrical subsystems.
• Designing and modifying motor power control equipment circuits, reading and interpreting blueprints, wiring diagrams and schematics.
• Preparing schedules and coordinating activities with other divisions and sections.
• Planning and laying work orders or work from instructions, using sketches, blueprints, and drawings.
• Ensure the accuracy and completion of all preventive maintenance duties.

Initiative:

• Improve management of parts to find a balance between availability, cost and stock levels.
• Promote operations in a safe, efficient and professional manner.
• Identify solutions to unique and complex problems

Physical Demands:

• Ability to frequently lift up to 50 lbs. Able to lift 65 lbs from floor to shoulder level occasionally.
• Ability to occasionally lift, carry, push or pull up to 100 lbs.
• Requires frequent bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, climbing, balancing, lifting, carrying, and reaching or handling with arms, hands and fingers. Also crawling and working in narrow spaces.
• Requires frequent repetitive movements, i.e. hammering, turning wrenches, or used screwdrivers.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to work with fingers.
• Normal vision with or without corrective lenses.
• Exposed to cold, heat, noise mechanical/electrical fume or odor.
• Will be required on occasion to work more than 8 hours on one shift