Field Electrician

Location: Hibbing, MN

Cleveland-Cliffs has an immediate opening for Field Electrician at Hibbing Taconite in Hibbing, MN. As a Field Electrician, you will be responsible for inspecting, repairing, and wiring all electrical and/or electronic apparatus, devices, and circuits of any voltage in the mine, plant, or assigned areas, including power transmission lines, transformers, and related equipment.

Summary of Responsibilities

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• Receives wiring diagrams, specifications, and instructions covering the scheduled and emergency repair, installation, and inspection work to be done.
• Analyze all types of drawings and wiring diagrams to replacement needs and to select a logical approach to “trouble shooting” and repair problems.
• Plans details of working procedure to affect the most logical approach to the job.
• Considers all safety precautions and the proper isolation of circuits to cause a minimum of interference to operations.
• Determines necessary tools and materials.
• Plans and performs work requiring a thorough working knowledge of electrical principles wiring specification codes, properties of various materials, and principles of operation and application of equipment.
• Locates sources of trouble of any type of electrical equipment by tracing and testing circuits and inspecting for faulty operation.
• Dismantles, inspects, repairs, adjusts or replaces faulty parts and wiring on motors, generators, power distribution and control panels, circuit breakers, rectifiers, electronic devices, etc.
• Reassembles, tests, and adjusts equipment for safe and proper operation.
• Performs work on “hot” lines as required.
• Replaces coils, resistors, rheostats, relays, etc.
• Adjusts contactors, relays, bus riggings, etc.
• Reconnects terminal leads, panel boards, and distribution feeders.
• In emergencies, shunts out defective coils in order to get equipment back in operation.
• Installs conduit, fittings, switches, controls and fixtures, and wires and connects al...