Electrician

About the position

The Metropolitan Council's Environmental Services (MCES) Division has five Electrician vacancies. Two are regular, full-time positions and three are long-term temporary positions (up to two years). As assigned, this position will require travel between various MCES facilities within the Twin Cities metro area. Join an award-winning wastewater industry leader in protecting our environment! MCES operates and maintains the wastewater collection and treatment system in the Twin Cities metropolitan region. It also provides coordinated long-range water resources, supply planning, and air and water quality monitoring to meet future needs. MCES treatment plants consistently earn state and national awards for complete compliance with their environmental permits. MCES received a Governor's Award as a Great Place to Work.

Responsibilities

• Performs electrical work related to the system process.
• Maintains personnel protection system for fire, hydrogen sulfide, and hydrocarbon alarm systems.
• Engineers, designs, and lays out electrical/electronic control circuits.
• Performs electrical construction work. Verifies proper operation with collection/plant system processes.
• Troubleshoots and repairs a wide variety of electrical/electronic equipment including PLC, VFD, MCC, telemetry, and SCADA systems.
• Performs calibration and verification on various process instrumentation, metering, and recording devices (pressure, level, flow, weight, etc.).
• Checks and maintains emergency service equipment.
• Coordinates inventory needs and stocking issues with procurement and warehouse staff.
• Completes job reports on labor and material.
• Works with maintenance management systems (WAM), process control systems (Cimplicity/Wonderware), and other computer system software programs.
• Maintains monitoring systems at lift stations, meter sites, river quality monitoring, regulator, and rain gauge sites.
• Diagnoses and repairs integration devices between field devices and process computers.
• Provides welding to support the electrical group.
• Tests, installs and repairs sacrificial and rectifier-type cathodic protection systems.
• Performs other related duties.

Requirements

• Completion of a registered apprenticeship electrical program through the State of Minnesota AND three (3) years of journey-level experience that includes instrumentation, controls, and programmable logic controller programming (industrial experience).
• OR Graduate of a two (2) year vocational/technical program in Electrical Construction and Maintenance AND five (5) years journey-level experience that includes instrumentation, controls, and programmable logic controller programming (industrial experience).
• OR Completion of a registered apprenticeship electrical program through the State of Minnesota AND one (1) year of journey-level experience that includes instrumentation, controls, and programmable logic controller programming (industrial experience) AND one (1) year of experience in maintenance in a wastewater plant/collection facility that includes instrument calibration, troubleshooting of motor controls/equipment control circuits, and programmable logic controller programming.
• Licenses/Certifications/Registration: State of Minnesota Class 'A' Journeyman license OR Master Electrician license; and valid driver's license WITH acceptable driving record.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working and collaborating in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive environments.

Benefits

• Opportunity to make a difference and positively influence the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
• On-site training and external professional development opportunities.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Competitive salary.
• Excellent benefits.
• Good work/life balance.