Electrical Technician

• Employee will comply with all Client Hazardous Waste procedures and local, state and federal regulatory requirements.
• Receives wiring diagrams, specifications and instructions covering the scheduled and emergency repair, installation, and inspection work to be done.
• Analyses all types of drawings and wiring diagrams to locate the install circuits and equipment to determine material or replacement needs and to select a logical approach to “Trouble Shooting” and repair problems.
• Plans details or working procedures to affect the most logical approach to job completion.
• Considers all safety precautions and proper isolation of circuits to cause a minimum of interference to operations.
• Determine necessary tools and material.
• Plans to perform work requiring a thorough knowledge of electrical principles, wiring specifications codes, properties of various materials and principles of operation and application of equipment.
• Locates sources of trouble of any type of electrical equipment by tracing and testing circuits and inspecting for faulty operations.
• Uses PLC interface as required to diagnose equipment-related problems with computer-controlled equipment.
• Dismantles, inspects, repairs, adjusts, or replaces faulty parts and wiring on motors, generators, power distribution and control panels, circuit breakers, rectifiers, electronic devices, etc.
• Reassembles, tests, and adjusts equipment for safe and proper operation.
• Performs work on “hot lines” as required.
• Replaces coils, resistors, rheostats, relays, etc. Adjusts contractors, relays, bus rigging, etc.
• Reconnects terminal leads, panel boards and distribution feeders.
• In emergencies, shunts out defective coils in order to get equipment back in operation.
• Changes DC motor characteristics by shunting series coils, etc.
• Installs conduit, fittings, switches, controls and fixtures and wires and connects all types of electrical equipment as required for new installation or replacement of facilities.
• Make all required splices and connector joints.
• Adjusts all new equipment for proper operating characteristics.
• Able to perform repairs, adjustments, etc. to state-of-the-art electrical components, i.e. (inverter drives, SCR units, programmable controllers, etc.).

Education:

• Must have journeyman certification plus HS diploma or GED
• Must have 2 4 years experience Must have experience working in industrial environment E
• Experience driving a forklift is preferred