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Posted: March 23, 2026 (1 day ago)

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Electrician

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Department of Agriculture

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Salary

$33.48 - $39.15

per hour

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Job Description

Summary

This job involves working as an electrician at a USDA facility in Texas, where you'll inspect, repair, and maintain electrical systems like power lines, transformers, and circuits to keep everything running smoothly.

It's a hands-on role focused on troubleshooting and preventive maintenance in a government setting.

A good fit would be someone with practical electrical experience, attention to detail, and the ability to read technical plans, ideally from a trade background or with volunteer work in similar tasks.

Key Requirements

  • Training and experience in complex electrical work, including installation, modification, and repair of distribution lines, circuits, and equipment
  • Ability to inspect, troubleshoot, and repair electrical systems, transformers, and switches
  • Skills in testing insulating oil and checking for breakdowns or contamination in electrical components
  • Proficiency in reading and using building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, and repair manuals
  • Experience planning and laying out electrical routing, placement, sizing, and balancing of systems
  • Knowledge of performing preventive maintenance on distribution lines, breakers, generators, and related equipment per manufacturer specifications
  • Demonstrated use of simple hand tools and other electrical tools, supported by resume examples (paid or volunteer experience)

Full Job Description

You will serve as an Electrician on the Field Operations Staff located at Moore Air Base in Mission, Texas. You are responsible for a variety of complex electrical work at the Mission facility.

To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume.

For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience using simple hand tools, your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:

  • The duties may include, but are not limited to:
  • Inspects, troubleshoots, and repairs new and existing electrical distribution lines serving all facilities.
  • Checks condition of transformers and switches. Tests insulating oil of transformers and oil switches for breakdown and contamination.
  • Installs, modifies, repairs, troubleshoots (tracing and locating defects), loads and tests new and existing secondary distribution lines, circuits, systems, fixtures, controls, and equipment.
  • Works from building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, and electrical maintenance and repair manuals to plan and layout the routing, placement, type, size, gauge, and balance.
  • Determines, arranges, places, and routes distribution panels, boxes, circuits, fittings, connections, and controls.
  • The employee performs regular preventative maintenance on distribution lines, transformers, circuits, breakers, generators and associated equipment in accordance with manufacturers’ specifications.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/23/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/23/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12911995-26-PQ