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Electrician Leader

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

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$37.28 - $43.51

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Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading a team of electricians in maintaining, repairing, and installing electrical systems at a VA medical center in Long Beach, California, ensuring everything runs safely and efficiently.

A good fit would be someone with hands-on electrical experience who can guide others, troubleshoot problems, and follow safety codes without needing constant oversight.

It's ideal for a skilled tradesperson who enjoys both technical work and supervising a small crew.

Key Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to lead and supervise electricians in maintenance and repair tasks
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting and repairing electrical systems, including tracing defects
  • Knowledge of National Electrical Code, local codes, and safety standards like CFR
  • Experience installing wiring, conduits, panels, fixtures, transformers, and other electrical devices
  • Ability to interpret blueprints, wiring diagrams, and engineering drawings
  • Skill in using electrical formulas for calculations like voltage drop, current, and power factor
  • Competence in using and maintaining hand tools for electrical work without more than normal supervision

Full Job Description

The Tibur Rubin VA Medical Center is recruiting for one (1) Electrician Leader in the Engineering Service.

The primary purpose of the position is to lead electricians who perform electrical maintenance, repair, construction and troubleshooting duties, incumbent serves under the supervision of the Electric Shop Supervisor, Engineering Service.

Welcome to VA Long Beach Tibor Rubin - History WMC Total Rewards - Power Apps To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position.

Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.

SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire.

Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated.

The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Electric Drawings Electrical Equipment Technical Practices (Electrical Electronic) Troubleshooting (Electrical) Use and Maintain Hand Tools (Electrical Work) Without more than normal supervision 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week.

Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities.

Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Major Duties:

Duties include but not limited to: Performs all preventative maintenance, operational checks, repair, layout installation, troubleshooting, tracing, locating defects, modification on all new and existing electrical systems.

Installs, maintains, and repairs electrical equipment in accordance with CFR and the National Electric Code.

Determining and placing distribution panels, boxes, fittings, and connections and installing wiring, couplings, conduit, relays, fixtures, transformers and other electrical devices including electrical service entrances Possesses working knowledge to use trade formulas to calculate common properties, e.g., voltage, voltage drop and current capability in series and parallel circuits, resistance, inductance, capacitance, power factor, current flow, and temperature, and length in single and multiple raceways, conduits, gutters, and cable trays.

Arranging and installing various gauges, sizes, and types of wire, conduit, couplings, fittings, relays, boxes, circuit breakers, and other electrical devices in ways that insure proper and safe operation of electrical systems and equipment Interpreting and applying the National Electrical Code, local codes, building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, and engineering drawings Using trade formulas to calculate common properties, e.g., voltage, voltage drop and current capability in series and parallel circuits, resistance, inductance, capacitance, power factor, current flow, and temperature, and length in single and multiple raceways, conduits, gutters, and cable trays Using hand tools and power tools, such as cable pullers, hydraulic benders, and pipe threading machines Using a wide variety of test equipment, for example, meggers, multi-meters, frequency meters, watt meters, power factor meters, vibro-grounds, phase rotation meters, audio tone location equipment, high potential testers, ground fault interrupter testing equipment, recording amp meters, circuit analyzers, circuit breaker testers, resistance bridges, cathodic protection test sets.

signal generators, signal tracers, and oscilloscopes. Works with a variety of voltage that range from 120 to 12,000 volts. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

(Tour of duty is based on organizational needs) Position Description Title/PD#: Electrician Leader/PD13505O Recruitment Incentive: Not authorized.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/24/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/24/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: CBSX-12895404-26-DN