Wastewater Industrial Electrician

Summary

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Performs skilled electrical/instrumentation installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair work related to specialized electrical equipment up to 15kv and instrumentation equipment used to operate and monitor the City's water and wastewater systems.

Essential Functions

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• Install, maintain, and repair pumping panels, MCC switchgear, low and medium voltage motor controllers, circuit breakers, transformers, variable frequency drives, level transmitters, flow meters, data radios, generators, electric valve actuators, cathodic protection controls, and power monitoring equipment;
• Install, maintain, and repair building and pole lighting systems, conduits, lighting panels, uninterruptible power systems, HVAC control systems;Identify and diagnose overhead electrical power distribution system failures, replace blown pole fuses, connect single phase and three phase electrical services. Also install, repair, or replace electric service risers including kilowatt hour meter bases;
• Perform system design, installation, remote programming and diagnostics, and repairs, for computer controlled automation systems, electrical controls, multi-platform programmable logic controllers (PLC), and human machine interface (HMI) systems;
• Maintain, perform system diagnostics, and repair supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, remote terminal unit (RTU) data communication systems, and fiber optic interface components;
• Perform inspections, installation, calibration, and certification of water quality monitoring instrumentation for compliance with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), as well as process control instrumentation such as flow, level, pressure, loss of head, and air metering devices;
• Interpretation and understanding electrical and electronic system designs, plans, specifications, multi-page wiring schematics, and basic one-line diagrams. Assisting in the startup, commissi...