Electrician - Exterior

Position Summary

Install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical systems and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment (50 volts or higher). Install, troubleshoot, test, repair, and maintain high voltage generating, controlling, and distributing systems in powerhouses, substations, and underground and overhead power lines. Maintain and repair airfield lighting systems. Perform general maintenance electrician work that requires rounded training and experience usually acquired through a formal apprenticeship or equivalent training and experience.

• Install, modify, connect, inspect, troubleshoot, and repair overhead and underground street lighting equipment. Set up and align poles, erect cross arms and fixtures, string conductors, install transformers and services with connections.
• Repair primary distribution equipment such as cracked insulators, broken pins, wires, short circuits, and loose connections. Check condition of transformers, switches, and cables. Test insulating oil of transformers and oil switches for breakdown and contamination.
• Install transformers on hangers, lighting arresters, switches, and fuses.
• Troubleshoot cable systems to locate shorts, opens, grounds, crosses, or cable breaks. Select and install insulators, join line conductors by splicing. String wires, pull wires to proper tension and sag. Install and replace arms and cross arms and attach pole guys.
• Install, modify, and test electrical lines, circuits, systems, fixtures, controls, and equipment 50 volts or higher, amperage, phase and frequency requirements.
• Install, maintain, and repair all types of grounding systems and lighting protection systems.
• Work from building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, and electrical maintenance and repair manuals to plan and layout routing, placement, type, size gauge, balance, load, continuity, and safe operation of electrical lines, circuits, systems, equipment, and controls.
• Work on variety of equipment, including motors, motor control devices, speed control units, and automatic control equipment. Install, and maintain the electronic controls for machines in business and industry.
• Pull insulated wires or cables through conduit to complete circuits between boxes and manholes. Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, and other components. Join wires in boxes with various special connectors.
• Perform preventive/recurring maintenance. Advise management on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous.
• Interpret and apply the National Electric Code, local codes, building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams and engineering drawings and use trade formulas to calculate common properties (e.g., voltage drops, current capacity, resistance, inductance, capacitance, power factors, current flow, temperature, and length in single and multiple raceways, conduit, gutters and cable trays).
• Make necessary repairs as quickly as possible to minimize inconvenience. Work with Engineers, engineering technicians or industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.
• Other duties as assigned to support mission and customer requirements.

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Current Journeyman Electrician License.
• Knowledge of Exterior Electrical, Industrial Components & High Voltage, and CE/AF Base Ops.
• CPR Certified.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET security clearance if required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen for contract requirements.

$39.40 per hour.

We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), education assistance, paid time off, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law. Salary offered will depend on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity, business needs, and other factors permitted by law.

Posted pay ranges are a general guideline only and are not a guarantee of compensation or salary.

ASRC Federal and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.