Journeyman Electrician

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries.

Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention.

As a Journeyman Electrician, you will build, maintain, troubleshoot, and modify the electrical systems that support our facilities, labs, test equipment, manufacturing equipment, and industrial operations. The work changes as our capabilities grow: one day you may install power for new equipment, the next diagnose a fault or rework circuits for a changing lab or shop.

You will work closely with our Electrical Infrastructure Engineer, Facilities team, engineers, technicians, contractors, and the appropriate supervising electrician. You will turn approved electrical requirements into practical installations, identify problems before they become bigger ones, and leave behind clear documentation of what was installed or changed.

Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

• Build and modify electrical distribution systems, including conduit, raceway, conductors, feeders, branch circuits, disconnects, transformers, panels, receptacles, lighting, grounding and bonding, and associated equipment.
• Install electrical connections for R&D equipment, test systems, manufacturing equipment, compute infrastructure, pumps, motors, HVAC equipment, and other facility loads, including work on 480V three-phase and 208/120V systems.
• Troubleshoot circuits, controls, motor controls, breakers, distribution systems, and electrical equipment using systematic fault-isolation methods, and restore operation safely.
• Maintain electrical infrastructure through preventive maintenance, inspections, planned shutdowns, testing, and early identification of unsafe conditions, capacity constraints, deteriorating equipment, and reliability risks.
• Deliver practical field installations from approved drawings, one-lines, panel schedules, specifications, field direction, and electrical plans, escalating incomplete requirements, design conflicts, and unsafe conditions before proceeding.
• Support equipment installation, startup, commissioning, energization, test operations, and rapid reconfigurations while maintaining electrical safety, code compliance, and long-term maintainability.
• Create accurate records of electrical work, including panel schedules, equipment labels, circuit identification, work-order closeout, redlines, photographs, test results, materials used, and field changes.
• Drive safe electrical work by following applicable electrical codes, OSHA requirements, NFPA 70E practices, lockout/tagout…