Electrician Technician

Electrician Technician

Plans layout, installs, troubleshooting and repair, wiring, electrical fixtures, apparatus, and control equipment by performing the following duties.

Essential duties and responsibilities include but not limited to the following :

• Plans new or modified installations to minimize waste of materials, provide access for the future maintenance, and avoid unsightly, hazardous, and unreliable wiring, consistent with specifications and local electrical codes.
• Prepares sketches showing location of wiring and equipment or follows diagrams or blueprints.
• Measures, cuts, bends, threads, assembles, and installs electrical conduit. Pulls wiring through conduit.
• Splices wires by stripping insulation from terminal leads, twisting or soldering wires together, and applying tape or terminal caps.
• Connects wiring to lighting fixtures, power equipment, and machinery.
• Installs control and distribution apparatus such as switches, relays, and circuit-breaker panels.
• Connects power cables to equipment.
• Tests continuity of circuit to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components with testing instruments.
• Observes functioning of installed equipment or system to detect hazards and need for adjustments, relocation, and replacement.
• Repairs faulty equipment or systems.
• Discuss layouts, assembly procedures, problems with supervision, engineering and can draw sketches to clarify design details and functional criteria of electronic or electrical circuitry.
• Assembles experimental circuitry (breadboard) or complete prototype model.
• Recommends changes in circuitry or installation specifications to simplify assembly and maintenance.
• Sets up standard test apparatus or devises test equipment and circuitry to conduct functional, operational, environmental, and live tests to evaluate performance and reliability of prototype or production model.
• Analyzes and interprets test data.
• Adjusts, calibrates, aligns, and modifies circuitry and components and records effects on unit performance.
• Checks functioning of newly installed equipment to evaluate system performance under actual operating conditions.

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Physical demands :

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Pay rate : $38.98

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

This position requires use of information or access to production processes subject to national security controls under U.S. export control laws and regulations (including, but not limited to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)). To comply with those regulations, this position may require applicants to be U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required export authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce.