Electrician Technician (Journeyman License Required)

PCC Talent Acquisition Portal•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Electrician Technician is responsible for planning layout, installing, troubleshooting, and repairing wiring, electrical fixtures, apparatus, and control equipment. This role involves ensuring installations minimize waste, provide access for future maintenance, and adhere to specifications and local electrical codes. The technician will prepare sketches, work with electrical conduit, pull and splice wiring, connect to various electrical components, and install control and distribution apparatus. Key duties also include testing circuits for safety, observing equipment function, repairing faulty systems, and collaborating with supervision and engineering on design details. The position requires assembling experimental circuitry, recommending changes for simplified assembly, setting up and conducting tests on prototypes, analyzing data, and adjusting/calibrating components to evaluate performance under operating conditions.

Requirements

Two-year degree in Electrical Technology or related field OR Journeyman Electrical License and a minimum of two years of industrial field experience.
Minimum of five years of direct work experience in an industrial setup will substitute for the above requirement.
Ability to interpret documents such as Schematics, Wiring, Ladder diagrams, Operating and Maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Experience working with electronics and solid-state devices such as drives, programmable automation controllers, radio controls and metering equipment.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules and manuals, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to speak effectively to other employees and vendors.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts and fundamentals of plane, solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety or technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Ability to operate a fork truck and a man lift.
Ability to work with computer and specific software.

Nice To Haves

Numerical Control or CNC experience

Responsibilities

Plans new or modified installations to minimize waste of materials, provide access for the future maintenance, and avoid unsightly, hazardous, and unreliable wiring, consistent with specifications and local electrical codes.
Prepares sketches showing location of wiring and equipment or follows diagrams or blueprints.
Measures, cuts, bends, threads, assembles, and installs electrical conduit.
Pulls wiring through conduit.
Splices wires by stripping insulation from terminal leads, twisting or soldering wires together, and applying tape or terminal caps.
Connects wiring to lighting fixtures, power equipment, and machinery.
Installs control and distribution apparatus such as switches, relays, and circuit-breaker panels.
Connects power cables to equipment.
Tests continuity of circuit to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components with testing instruments.
Observes functioning of installed equipment or system to detect hazards and need for adjustments, relocation, and replacement.
Repairs faulty equipment or systems.
Discusses layouts, assembly procedures, problems with Supervision, Engineering and can draw sketches to clarify design details and functional criteria of electronic or electrical circuitry.
Assembles experimental circuitry (breadboard) or complete prototype model.
Recommends changes in circuitry or installation specifications to simplify assembly and maintenance.
Sets up standard test apparatus or devises test equipment and circuitry to conduct functional, operational, environmental, and live tests to evaluate performance and reliability of prototype or production model.
Analyzes and interprets test data.
Adjusts, calibrates, aligns, and modifies circuitry and components and records effects on unit performance.
Checks functioning of newly installed equipment to evaluate system performance under actual operating conditions.