This role involves leading complex high voltage electrical maintenance, repair, and installation tasks, ensuring optimal performance and safety within electrical systems and power plant environments. The Journeyman-Lead (Tier 2) is expected to be a highly experienced professional, capable of working with little or no supervision, and potentially providing oversight for a specific crew.
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Prepares equipment for repair or replacement parts. Starts equipment following repair and tests performance in conjunction with other teams. Withdraws equipment, components, and materials from the stockroom inventory system and orders materials from vendors as required.
- Performs switching and maintenance in substations, switchyards, pad-mounted equipment, and in underground vaults.
- Installs new equipment, including conduit, wire, cable, pull boxes, transformers, and performs repairs and alterations in high voltage systems.
- Installs and maintains transformers, converters, regulators, cables, switches, circuit breakers, mechanical and electronic systems, and other circuit elements found in substations. Dismantles and repairs primary electrical equipment, replacing sectionalizing box pot-heads, links, and blown fuses.
- Operates switches to isolate and remove defective components for repair. Utilizes various measuring and testing instruments to work standard computations relating to load requirements of wiring and electrical equipment.
- Maintains specified power plant equipment such as pumps, compressors, boilers, and turbines. Uses blueprints, diagrams, repair manuals, calipers, micrometers, scales, and other measuring instruments as required. May be responsible for plans and schematic reviews with written reports. Keeps leadership informed of the status of equipment and conditions and prepares repair requests as needed.
- Performs preventative maintenance in accordance with schedules, operating procedures, and equipment warranty. Performs scheduled inspections to determine if equipment is operating properly. Performs preventative maintenance on all electrical gears.
- Performs duties in a timely, accurate, and cost-effective manner. Installs and maintains various lighting systems. Interfaces with customers and assures proper accountability of parts and time for each individual task.
- Work environment requires strict adherence to precautionary work methods and safety equipment due to the severe electrical hazards present when working near energized equipment and components. Other duties as assigned.
Master Level Attributes (Expected for Journeyman-Lead):
- Possesses all of the Journey and Journeyman-Lead level skills, having verifiable minimum experience and/or holds an accepted certification, license, and/or degree.
- Usually considered the most experienced, highest skilled professional in their respective field.
- May provide supervision for a specific crew.
- Requires little or no supervision.
Qualifications
Typical Education & Experience:
- High school diploma / GED equivalent, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Seven (7) years to nine (9) years related experience.
- Requires the job knowledge, skill level, and physical ability necessary to perform assigned job functions.
