Test Technician

Energy United is seeking a Test Technician I or II to support the construction, operation, maintenance, testing, and troubleshooting of substations, metering systems, communications equipment, and related electrical infrastructure. This position plays a critical role in ensuring the safe, reliable delivery of electric services to cooperative members through preventive maintenance, equipment testing, outage restoration, and technical support activities.

• Inspect, test, maintain, and repair substation and distribution equipment.
• Perform substation inspections, minor switching, and equipment troubleshooting.
• Maintain low-voltage substation systems including batteries, lighting, control buildings, security systems, grounding systems, and oil containment equipment.
• Test insulating oil and respond to environmental incidents in accordance with regulations.
• Install, test, calibrate, and repair electric metering equipment.
• Investigate and resolve power quality, load management, and metering issues.
• Install and maintain SCADA, AMI, communications equipment, mobile radio systems, security cameras, LAN equipment, fiber networks, and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs).
• Participate in outage restoration, storm response, underground fault locating, and on-call assignments as required.
• Install, maintain, and support standby generation, peak shaving equipment, and mobile substations.
• Document maintenance activities, testing results, and repairs.
• Maintain compliance with all applicable safety, environmental, and industry standards.
• Provide technical support to regional operations personnel and other departments.