Electrician

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standard for Trades and Labor Occupations.

Although a specific length of time and experience is not required, you must meet any screen-out element listed, and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties at the level for which you are applying.

Emphasis is placed on how you gained the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time, and the required ability or potential to perform the job.

Applicants who do not meet the screen-out element (SOE) will be eliminated from further competition.

The SOE and minimum qualifications for this position is: I perform the common tasks of the job to be filled but under close supervision, such as making on-the-job inspections to assure equipment is operating properly; and locating and correcting common troubles frequently without using test equipment by listening for distorted or extraneous noises, observing built-in indicators and functioning of elements, etc.

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, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

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

Physical Effort: Makes repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and where systems and equipment worked on are in hard-to- reach places.

Stands, stoops, bends, kneels, climbs, and works in tiring and uncomfortable positions.

Frequently handles, lifts, carries, and sets up parts and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds, and occasionally over 50 pounds.

Working Conditions: The incumbent works inside and outside at heights up to 120 feet above the ground, and is frequently exposed to drafts, changing temperatures and noise.

Frequently exposed to the possibility of cuts, bruises, scrapes, broken bones and burns.

Occasionally exposed to the possibility of injury from falling, electrical shock, burns, and rotary devices such as electrical motors.

At times, the incumbent must wear protective safety devices which are extremely uncomfortable when worn in hot weather.

Incumbent may be required to make repairs and installations in bad weather; in work areas that are noisy, dirty, dusty, and greasy; on scaffolding or cranes at heights of 9 meters (30 feet) or more; and in close quarters such as manholes or attics.

May work in cold weather. Major Duties:

• Installs, alters, maintains and repairs electrical facilities and equipment.
• Installs and repairs electrical equipment and/or electrical components of equipment including automatic loading dock doors and levelers, shop machinery and laboratory items.
• Answers trouble calls, makes diagnosis and performs on-the-spot repair.
• Installs, maintains and repairs a variety of electronic and related equipment such as automated data processing equipment, electronic controls, rectifiers, transformers, photo-electric cells, integrated circuits, solid state thermostats, etc.
• Uses a variety of electronic equipment such as voltmeters, ohmmeters, ampmeters, relay checkers, multimeters and circuit tracing equipment to test for proper operation and to trace and localize trouble.
• Replaces defective parts such as motors, relays, solenoids, transistors, resistors, wires, capacitors, coils, sockets, condensers, transformers, etc.