Traveling Medium Voltage Service Technician

Optiv Energy Inc.•Southlake, TX

4d•$40 - $60•Onsite

About The Position

Optiv Energy Inc. is seeking motivated, positive, and experienced MV Technicians to troubleshoot, repair, and commission medium voltage transformers and switchgear on solar, wind, and battery storage sites across the US. There are two sides to the job. On new projects, you test and commission the equipment before it energizes - in service, where we are growing fastest. You are the person who shows up when a transformer or a breaker trips, gasses, or leaks, works out why, fixes it, and puts it back in service with documentation behind it. This is field work. You will travel to active project sites across the US and work outdoors through summer and winter, mixing scheduled commissioning and maintenance with short-notice service callouts. Expect time around energized MV equipment under strict safety protocols, work at heights and in confined spaces, and handling of insulating fluids.

Requirements

3+ years hands-on with MV equipment rated 5 kV–38 kV — transformers, switchgear, and their controls
Real experience troubleshooting and repairing liquid-filled transformers and MV switchgear, not just testing them
Journeyman Electrician license, or an equivalent MV testing and service background
Comfortable with the usual test gear — megger, TTR, power factor and low-resistance sets, VLF, and an IR camera
Good documentation habits. Clean reports matter as much as clean work here
Valid driver’s license and willingness to travel to sites and respond to callouts

Nice To Haves

NETA or NICET certification, or working toward one
Familiarity with protective relay software and pulling event records (SEL, ABB, GE, Beckwith, or similar)
Solar, wind, BESS, or substation experience
Transformer oil processing — vacuum dehydration, hot oil circulation, vacuum fill
Rigging and crane coordination for transformer set and removal
OSHA 10 or 30

Responsibilities

Troubleshoot MV transformers when they trip, gas, or leak - sudden pressure and temperature trips, faulty gauges and indicators, leaks at gaskets, bushings, and valves - and find the root cause
Carry out the repair: gaskets, bushings, surge arresters, terminations, cooling and control accessories, oil processing and top-up
Pull oil samples and DGA, interpret the results, and recommend action on gassing units
Interrogate protective relays after a trip - retrieve fault records and event reports, read targets, and confirm what actually operated and why
Test and service MV switchgear and breakers - insulation resistance and dielectric withstand, contact and pole resistance, vacuum bottle integrity, breaker timing, and mechanism and interlock checks
Support removal, replacement, and re-commissioning of padmount and skid-mounted transformers
Perform acceptance and maintenance testing to ANSI/NETA ATS and MTS - insulation resistance, TTR, winding resistance, power factor, and VLF withstand on MV cable
Write the test reports and return-to-service records that owners and OEMs rely on
Work safely around energized MV equipment under NFPA 70E, LOTO, and site switching procedures