Plant Electrician Specialist - Platteville

Position: Plant Electrician Specialist - Platteville, CO
Location: Platteville

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states:
Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

Job Description Xcel Energy is looking for a talented and experienced Plant Electrician Specialist to join the Xcel Energy team at the Fort Saint Vrain Station! Xcel Energy has opportunities in a rewarding field, with great benefits. This is a union position. In this position, you will read prints, work with high voltage switching 150KV or higher, DCS experience, excitation systems, motor control systems, level control systems, and troubleshoot AC and DC circuits of various voltages.

Protective relaying experience and familiarity with NERC/FERC requirements is helpful.

Selection criteria will also include an interview and pre-employment written and hands-on testing that will take place at a company training facility (personal tools and equipment are not provided).The company reserves the right to close this posting at any time.

Summary Perform installation, maintenance and troubleshooting on all plant electrical systems. This includes power boilers, turbines, generators, transformers, breakers, motors, battery systems, uninterruptible power supplies, variable speed drives, distributive process control systems, programmable logic controllers, relay logic, motor-operated valves, damper drives, lighting, heat tracing, telephones, intercoms and various field devices. Motor and breaker equipment up to 7200 volts and substation transformers and breakers with voltages up to 230 KV.

Primary duties center around troubleshooting and maintaining existing operational systems. Prior experience in an electric power plant and/or substation equipment/voltages is preferred.

Required Qualifications The successful candidate will have completed a 4-year electrical apprenticeship in power generation plants, substations or other industrial settings and is able to demonstrate general electrical knowledge through testing

The applicant must be able to work from ladders, bucket trucks, and elevated catwalks, as well as work in dusty atmospheres, cold/hot conditions, confined spaces, work on stack lighting at an elevation of 500 feet, use safety personal protective equipment and be able to lift at least 50 lbs occasionally

The successful candidate will be required to respond to after-hours call outs, work extended hours and will provide a phone number for after-hours contact

Preferred Qualifications Medium voltage experience

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