Electrician
The position is in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), at the George E Wahlen VA Medical Center in the Facilities Management Under Engineering Section. The primary purpose of the Electrician is to inspect, repair, and do maintenance on all electrical systems including installation, modification, repair and troubleshooting electrical systems.
Major Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Uses appropriate test equipment to prevent overloading.
- Utilizes all instruments correctly and equipment normally used by journeyman electricians.
- Ability to select and use appropriate hand, and power tools.
- Maintain, repair, and install electrical and electronic systems and equipment.
- Install, modify, repair, troubleshoot, test and check for proper voltage capacity, loading of wires and equipment, and balancing of loads.
- Installs, modifies, repairs, troubleshoots, and tests new and existing substations.
- Utilizes protection gear and general personal protective equipment (PPE) for work on electrical systems.
- Traces hard-to-locate defects or problems associated with the completion of repairs and installations.
- Balances service loads over three phases.
- Pull conductors through raceway systems, phase out and make connections.
- Conducts annual tension/polarity tests on all electronic receptacles in patient care areas.
- Provides routing for conduits and wiring for electrical boxes, panels and equipment.
- Perform preventive maintenance and testing of complex electrical systems, circuits, equipment, appliances, controls, components, lighting fixtures, emergency electrical systems and back-up electrical systems.
- Performs preventative maintenance and troubleshoots high voltage (4,160v) primary systems.
- A Journeyman License is highly preferred.
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday - 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Position Description Title/PD#: Electrician/PD14014A
Physical Requirements: The incumbent makes repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and other hard-to-reach places. This requires electrical workers to stand, stoop, bend, kneel, climb, and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Electrical workers frequently lift and carry tools, equipment, and parts that weigh up to 9 kilograms (20 pounds) and, less often, up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds). Occasionally, they lift or move with assistance moderately heavy objects weighing more than 18 kilograms.
Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
A Journeyman License is highly preferred.
Additional Information: Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. Participation in the seasonal influenza program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job.