Water Plant Electrical​/Electronic Equipment Repairer - BC-

Job Responsibilities

• Installs, maintains, overhauls, and repairs water plant electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical devices and equipment such as switching devices; pressure transducers and transmitters; relays; temperature controls; pressure switches; circuits; high, medium, and low voltage switch gears and soft starters; variable frequency drives; motor control centers; motors; generators; overhead cranes; and distribution power, current, control and lighting transformers, etc.
• Installs, operates, maintains, overhauls, and repairs water plant electronics, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems equipment, electronic circuits, electronic control devices, telemetering equipment, PLC's (programmable logic control), resistors, capacitors, and related water system equipment for treatment plants, filter plants, chlorinator stations, tank sites, and pump stations.
• Estimates material requirements to perform plant installation, mechanical maintenance, and repair work.
• Reads and interprets plans for installing electrical equipment and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoots booster and deep well pumps, motors, pumps, air blowers, air compressors, elevators, air or hydraulically actuated control valves and transformer equipment both electrically and mechanically.
• Services, repairs, overhauls, or replaces pumps and motors; aligns pump motors.
• Installs, repairs, and maintains deep well pump control valves, booster pump control valves, pressure reducing valves, and tank control devices.
• Installs, maintains, overhauls, repairs, and calibrates electrical and electronic circuitry and proper operational needs such as pressure transducers and chart recorders.
• Programs electronic flow meters and other electronic equipment.
• Operates and performs minor repairs and programming to SCADA systems.
• Installs, calibrates, repairs, maintains, and operates water quality equipment.
• Installs, maintains, operates, and repairs power; lighting; electrical and electronic circuits; conduits; electrical outlets; meter loops; underground high, medium, and low voltage wiring; pole and line wiring; power transfer switching equipment; mercury vapor and fluorescent lighting; photo cell controls, etc.
• Inspects and tests equipment for shorts, grounds and open circuits, and diagnoses faulty circuits.
• Identifies, isolates, and corrects defective circuits; renews and repairs defective parts.
• Fabricates various parts using materials of appropriate conducting, resistance, and/or insulating properties.
• Performs shop and bench work in the overhaul, repair, and testing of equipment and components.
• Performs sanitary survey check with Department of Health personnel to check the water system and to ensure the quality of the water; performs corrections and repairs as required.
• May perform oxyacetylene and electric welding.
• Receives and investigates customer complaints; resolves problem or refers to supervisor for follow‑up.
• Services, repairs, and maintains mechanical equipment such as generators, trench pumps, tapping and cutting machines, jack hammers, and compressors.
• Maintains and repairs devices on overhead traveling cranes.
• Installs, maintains, overhauls, repairs, and calibrates electrical and electronic laboratory and field instruments.
• Reads and interprets wiring diagrams and schematics; modifies electrical and electronic circuitry for operational needs.
• Maintains operational records.
• Complies with all Federal, State, and County laws, regulations, and policies relating to occupational safety and health.
• Performs maintenance work on water plant stations and buildings.
• May perform as a back up to Water Plant Operator; may train other employees as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

A combination of education and experience substantially equivalent to:

• graduation from high school, and
• one (1) year of journey level experience in the installation, maintenance, and repair of plant electrical and electronic equipment, instruments, and devices, which shall have included work with high, medium, and low voltage lines and equipment, and
• possession of a State of Hawai`i journey level electrician's or industrial electrician's license at time of filing (scan and attach a copy of your electrician's license to your application), and
• possession of a valid State of Hawai`i driver's license (Class
  3) or any other valid comparable driver's license at time of filing. (You will be required to submit your valid driver's license at time of hire).

All applicants who meet the minimum qualification requirements will be assigned a score of 70 points. An education and experience evaluation will be conducted based on the applicant's training, education and experience as presented in the application.

Please read the minimum qualification requirements carefully. Be certain to list all pertinent training and experience, as this may be important in determining your examination score. It is essential that the applicant describe fully the duties and…