Senior Electrician​/Lead Electrician - Jackson, MS

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$61,700.00/yr - $98,000.00/yr

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. Your impact.

At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. Through the delivery of our operations and maintenance services, you’ll make it simpler and more seamless for our municipal clients to operate safely and efficiently, empowering communities to focus on what matters most to them – people.

As a Lead Electrician based in Jackson, MS
, you’ll join a collaborative team ensuring that our clients can deliver their services – uninterrupted. In this role, you'll perform electrical maintenance, make modifications, and execute the preventive maintenance program that is designed for the facility.

• Repairs and maintains all facility electrical wiring and fixtures in accordance with blueprints, manuals, and building codes using appropriate hand and electrician's tools
• Installs and repairs electrical fixtures, apparatus, and control equipment
• Repairs and maintains major equipment such as motors, generators, and electrical control systems
• Tests defective equipment to determine the cause of malfunction or failure using standard electrical test equipment
• Observes functioning of installed facility equipment to detect hazards and need for adjustment, relocation, or replacement
• Inspects circuits and wiring for specified shielding and grounding and repairs or rewires plant equipment systems according to state building codes and safety regulations
• Plans layout of new wiring installations
• Inspects all equipment on a regularly scheduled basis; meets all requirements of the established preventive maintenance program; inspects, maintains, and repairs solid state boiler control systems and electrical switch gear and electric motors
• Adjust, calibrates, and repairs electrical‑pneumatic control systems; inspects electrical‑pneumatic systems for emergency repairs; reports and logs all findings
• Maintains the files necessary to support all maintenance activities

• Four (4) plus years of experience in operating water/wastewater treatment plants or similar
• Experience leading teams and assigning work
• Proficient in the use of computer software including but not limited to Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and to enter data into a maintenance management system
• Proficient in the use of plant SCADA systems and software
• Possess a valid driver’s license with no major infraction

• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools employed in the general operation of engines, pumps, valves, motors, and related equipment; general maintenance work; safe work practices; principles and methods of biological and chemical sewage analyses, effects and problems of industrial waste in water/wastewater treatment processes, principles of supervision
• Knowledge of computer software including but not limited to Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, data management systems and be able to operate plant PLC’s and SCADA system

Safety is a core value  are committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all employees. This position will spend a substantial amount of time performing safety sensitive labor or services.

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well‑being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance, 401(k) plan, paid time off (allocated plans start date 17 days per calendar year), seven paid holidays, one…