High Voltage Electrician

Duties

You will install, modify, and replace generation and distribution equipment in substations, power generating facilities, transformer vaults, and/or distribution centers.

You will maintain, replace, test and reset circuit breakers in switch and substations, at shore installations including pier mounted unit substations and vaults.

You will splice wires by removing insulation, scraping clean, twisting together and soldering, or connecting conductors with mechanical connectors, splicing claps and tape.

You will troubleshoot distribution circuits and generating and controlling equipment to locate and correct the causes of outages and improper operation and make emergency cutouts and substitutions of power line.

You will check the condition of transformers, switches, and cable; testing insulating oil of transformers and oil switches for breakdown and contamination.