HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICIAN

Full Job Description

You will serve as an Electrician (High Voltage) in the Installation and Logistics Division of MCLB ALBANY GA.

This announcement uses the Defense Industrial Base, Major Range and Test Facilities direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the WG-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: installing, testing, and repairing a wide array of electrical equipment, including substation components and distribution lines.

Troubleshooting of circuits and cable systems to locate and resolve faults, often through emergency repairs using specialized test equipment.

The ability to read complex electrical diagrams and provide technical guidance.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=WG-2800 Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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. Major Duties:

• You will troubleshoot distribution circuits and generating and controlling equipment to locate and correct the causes of outages and improper operations.
• You will locate breakdowns and trouble spots on distribution lines by power failure reports, line inspections, and use of various electrical testing instruments.
• You will install, modify, connect, inspect, and repair overhead and underground electrical distribution lines, services lines, breakers, disconnect switched.
• You will modify, test, repair, and maintains transformers, converters, regulators, cables, switched, circuit breakers, mechanical and electronic systems, and other circuit elements found in substitutions.
• You will check transformer operating temperatures and voltage at secondary terminals and make repairs to defective, loose, or corroded connections.