Electrical Maintenance Technician

Electrical Maintenance Technician

Job Location:

US-HI-Honolulu

Nakupuna Companies is looking for an Electrical Maintenance Technician. The Electrical Maintenance Technician is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the project site are operating at peak efficiency. This involves planned preventative maintenance, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The technician serves as an expert technical resource reporting to a program manager, interacting with Onsite Engineering Operations (OEO) and any third party vendors.

Project site equipment supports mission‑critical systems that must maintain better than 99.999% uptime.

The following reflects management's definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

• Render assistance in administration and regulation of the duties of junior technicians, and provide oversight of contractors' roles for electrical duties.
• Analyze systems requirements, conduct research on equipment and procedures and recommend modifications to new and existing systems. Install new units or replacement parts for existing units according to specifications and established safety guidelines, rely on MOPs, manufacturer literature, and industry best practices to perform tasks.
• Utilize safe working practices; apply lockout/tagout, MSDS, and good housekeeping methods. Ability to type and utilize common administrative and office software.
• Troubleshoot, repair and modify malfunctioning electronic units such as printed circuit boards, set up sensing mechanisms, and advanced electrical circuits.
• Perform maintenance, installations, and service repairs on critical data center systems, and all industrial electrical equipment and systems that include power distribution components/wiring, electronic components, and lighting systems throughout the data center campus to ensure efficient operation. Use appropriate test equipment including infrared scanning and vibration analyzing meter to diagnose systems and equipment. Log activities in CMMS.
• When necessary, perform daily walk‑through of facility documenting parameters such as power availability, temperature and humidity, alarm status, etc., to be catalogued and compared for identification of discrepancies and trends. Monitor and make necessary changes to site BAS, following site MOPs & SOPs.
• Manage mechanical and electrical systems in emergency situations including HVAC components, power distribution equipment, generator systems, load transfer and control systems, UPS systems, DC power systems, fire and life safety.
• Identify required materials and parts for maintenance and repair; prepare and present cost estimates for parts, equipment, and supplies for proposed installation or repairs to facilitate procurement.
• Maintain relationships with all major vendor accounts.
• Schedule, coordinate, and oversee all critical environment vendors during maintenance, emergency, and break/fix events to ensure personnel safety and maintain power to the critical load.
• Set up and operate electrical data capturing devices (Dranetz, Fluke PQA, etc.).
• Create required MOPs and SOPs; perform periodic technical and quality reviews of all MOPs and SOPs to ensure that the most up‑to‑date techniques and safety guidelines are utilized.
• Collect and generate internal and vendor field service reports describing all activities (preventive maintenance, repairs, etc.) performed at the facility; review all reports prior to submission to end user.
• Develop reliability reports to assist in identifying areas for increased efficiency, resiliency, or to mitigate unplanned downtime.
• Conduct training with junior technicians and other staff personnel on electrical equipment/system for maintenance, repairs and operation.

• Ability to read and interpret wiring diagrams, blueprints, floor plans, construction documents, safety requirements, OEM operating and maintenance instructions,…