Electrician

PLEASE READ ALL REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS! JOURNEYMAN LICENSE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION!

Job Summary

This position is located in the Maintenance Shop, Facility Operations and Maintenance Branch of the District of Columbia National Guard. The primary purpose of this position is non-supervisory jobs involved in the installation, maintenance, and repair of electrical wiring systems, fixtures, controls and equipment. These jobs require knowledge and application of electrical principles, materials, and safety standards.

Location: Andrews AAFB, Joint Base Andrews, AAFB

Tour of Duty: TBD

Qualifications

Knowledge of construction, installation, operation, and troubleshooting of sophisticated circuitry and controls associated with unique projects. Knowledge and application of electrical principles, materials, and safety standards. Ability to independently plan, lay-out, set-up, determine proper materials, procedures, equipment and tools, and to develop solutions to unusual or unique problems. Skill in using non-standard tools and equipment and in determining non- standard uses for standard tools and equipment to complete highly complex, unusual tasks. May require knowledge of complex shop math (i.e., algebra and trigonometry).

Installs electrical distribution systems. Splices strings and/ or lays overhead and underground wire and cable. Erects and aligns poles. Climbs poles and attaches cross arms and hardware.  Installs electrical components such as insulators, transformers, voltage regulators, circuit breakers, junction boxes, switch boxes, potheads, and associated brackets and braces. Assembles and installs substation components. Lays direct burial cable or lays cable in conduit or concrete ducts. Cuts, bends, threads, and/or connects and mounts wire shield in conduit, shielded cable, or material such as wire mold. Threads and pulls wiring through conduits with fish tapes, ropes and power winches.

Completes mechanical and electrical connections to distribution systems equipment such as transformers, high voltage switch gear, junction boxes, distribution panels, buss bars, outlets, switches, fuses, circuit breakers, and emergency power equipment. Shapes, mounts, and connects conduit, tubing, wiring, and buss bars to complete connection of utility electricity to power, lighting, heating, alarm and control equipment, machinery, and circuits.

Mounts and connects inside, street, obstruction, and air field lighting fixtures. Makes electrical connection to electrical power operated equipment such as motor starters, voltage and current regulators, solenoids, rheostats: switches actuated by manual, electrical, or mechanical power; household and commercial type heating, cooling, and electrical motor operated appliances; sensing alarm, and central devices associated with hazards sensing, indicating, and control devices associated with air conditioning, cold storage and heating systems and quantity measurement.

Licensures, Certifications and other requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Mandatory:      

1. Applicants must demonstrate that they can perform electrician tasks including planning, laying out, and completing the installation, modification, and repair to electrical systems, circuits, equipment, and controls; diagnosing problems and determining a remedy when overall knowledge of an entire electrical system is necessary in order to correct a malfunction, with possibility of damage to equipment if incorrectly handled; using electrical formulas for computing voltages, resistance, amperages, capacitance and frequencies to make adjustments and solve problems on own initiative under general supervision subject to occasional inspection.
2. The ability to install interior and exterior electrical systems.
3. The ability to read, interpret, and then apply instructions given in the form of blueprints, schematics, and drawing.
4. Must possess a state issued motor vehicle operator’s permit.
5. Must be able to obtain a secret security clearance.
6. Good leadership and management abilities.
7. A background in mechanical and/or structural work area.
8. Ability to converse and write the English Language.
9. Journeyman Certification required  

Work Experience

Experience providing clerical or administrative support such as data gathering and reporting, time and attendance reporting filing, scanning, printing, creating documents/reports, ordering supplies and sorting mail; experience providing assistance in the area of records management, including filing, records maintenance and/or disposition.

Work Environment

The work environment involves moderate risks or discomforts which requires special safety precautions such as those required when working around moving parts or machinery, working in bad weather, possible exposure to injury from falling, electrical shock, and burns.

The work is done inside and outside and is usually dirty, dusty, and greasy.  The electrician is sometimes required to make repairs and installations outside in bad weather and in work areas that are noisy. The electrician is occasionally exposed to the possibility of cuts and bruises.