Electrician

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As an Electrician 1, you'll be at the heart of keeping this critical infrastructure running — leading electrical, instrumentation, and control system work that directly protects public health and the environment for hundreds of thousands of residents every day. The City’s treatment facilities serve a population equivalent of 240,000 within a three-city area with an average annual flow of 45 million gallons per day (MGD).

Willow Lake is the primary treatment facility for the City with a dry weather secondary treatment capacity of 65 MGD, a wet weather secondary treatment capacity of 115 MGD, and a peak wet weather capacity of 155 MGD. It can be operated in trickling filter/activated sludge, conventional air activated sludge and in a combination of both processes plus selective treatment based on flow and load fluctuations.

We value employees and their professional development. If you are someone that takes pride in collaborating on innovative ideas, proactively responding to community needs, and being a good environmental and financial steward, we look forward to meeting you! The Public Works Department promotes a healthy work life balance, while maintaining the utmost dedication to the health, safety and welfare of our community including our team!

Your responsibilities will include design and drawing reviews, creating work orders, assigning tasks, and performing all duties of an Electrician
1. These duties encompass completing preventive maintenance (PM) and corrective maintenance (CM) work, as well as addressing breakdowns on electrical, instrumentation, and communication equipment for the Public Works Wastewater Treatment Plant. Maintenance tasks for electrical, instrumentation, and communications will involve troubleshooting, direct replacement, calibration, and repair of equipment such as motors, gates/valves, analysis equipment and systems, process control equipment, analog and digital devices, power generation systems, and DCS and PLC monitoring systems.

• Designs, modifies, and installs electric circuits, computerized motor controls, lighting, streetlights, traffic signals, and alarm controls.
• Maintains written work records and prepares reports, including finalizing work orders and drawings project status into databases programs or asset management programs.
• Installs, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs a variety of electrical and instrumentation equipment, and electrical systems, sub-systems, circuits, and controls; interprets and works from plans and/or develops sketches or designs for work, as appropriate.
• Responds to failures, disasters and emergencies involving electrical systems and equipment; performs routine and preventative maintenance.
• Performs a variety of electrical construction and structural installation or maintenance; operates a variety of hand,power and hydraulic tools to perform work, including aerial and crane trucks.
• Ensures that repairs and installations are safe and operate properly; evaluates safety and operability of systems;reviews the work of contractors to ensure compliance with specifications and standards.
• Performs a variety of diagnostic and analytical tests, including those involving programmable logic controls, infra-red,ultra-sonic; researches information as necessary to perform duties and maintain accuracy.
• Maintains records, supplies and equipment; maintains and stocks service vehicles as assigned; determines materials needs; carries out all required safety procedures.
• Maintains written work records and prepares reports.
• Develops procedures with supervisor and other department or division staff.
• Plans and organizes assigned job; estimates time, materials and equipment; orders and purchases materials;coordinates job activities with other crafts and trades personnel; reviews plans and specifications, and confers with engineers, design professionals and inspectors on suggested changes and modifications.
• May lead crew of trade helpers or technicians to assist with projects.
• Responds to calls to work during emergencies.

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