Medium Voltage Lead

Medium Voltage Lead

The University of Arizona is seeking a competent, safety‑oriented Medium Voltage Shop Lead to be part of our electrical utilities and distribution team. In this lead position, you will remain hands‑on with medium voltage equipment while providing technical leadership to other technicians, serving as a key point of contact for electrical distribution tasks across campus. You will help ensure that U of A's electrical infrastructure remains reliable, safe, and well maintained to support academics, research, residential, and medical facilities.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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• Perform hands‑on installation, testing, maintenance, inspection, calibration, and repair of medium voltage equipment including transformers, PMS, circuit breakers, relays, batteries, and chargers.
• Conduct regular inspections, oil sampling, power quality assessments; recommend improvements or preventive maintenance actions.
• Read, interpret, draw, and work from electrical schematics (one‑line, three‑line diagrams) and system map books.
• Be a technical resource/mentor to other technicians: assist in guiding work, enforcing safe work practices, helping with training and troubleshooting.
• Document work, maintain accurate records of inspections, repairs, maintenance, and share findings with supervisors.
• Coordinate with facilities management and engineering for scheduled outages, upgrades, and emergency repairs.
• Assist with developing job hazard analyses (JHAs) and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Track completion of inspections and report deficiencies to the supervisor.
• Act as the shop's shield representative when supervisors are unavailable (liaison with contractors, engineers, or campus departments).
• Provide feedback to the supervisor on crew performance, training needs, and resource requirements.

• Understanding of substation design and infrastructure, distribution power, and equipment within the system.
• Ability to write and speak project‑specific knowledge, estimating, plan review, Excel, Smartsheet, electrical theory.
• Ability to walk job sites, including tunnels, substations, gear houses, and electrical rooms (OSHA, NFPA 7OE).
• Solid ability to interpret, read, and work from electrical schematics (one‑line/three‑line), system maps, etc.
• Skilled in operating, troubleshooting, and working around energized equipment and knowledge of applicable safety codes and practices.
• Strong technical skills with medium voltage systems; competent in troubleshooting, preventative maintenance.
• Good communication and teamwork skills; ability to guide others, help mentor less experienced staff.

• High school diploma or high school diploma equivalency.
• Minimum of seven years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive according to the University Fleet Safety Policy.

• Five years of electrical construction experience.
• Five years of distribution power experience.
• Five years of plan review or blueprint reading experience.
• Understanding of the University of Arizona electrical system, mainly 46kV and 13kV.
• Experience with controls in medium voltage substation and understanding of one‑line and three‑line diagrams.
• Completion of a Journeyman Apprenticeship Program or at least four years of experience in medium voltage/substation/electrical distribution work.

Full benefits: health, dental, vision, life insurance, disability programs, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, tuition reductions, retirement plans, recreation and cultural activities.

Non‑Exempt;
Full Time; 40 hours per week; FTE 1.0;
Grade 9; 1 vacancy;
Pay range $31.59 – $41.06 hourly.