Residential electrician Jobs in Fremont, CA

Job Description

Job Description:

Under general supervision, performs inspection, maintenance, repair, installation, and testing of a variety of electrical systems and equipment, up to 600 Volts energized and 601 Volts to 301,000 Volts de-energized, used at the water, wastewater, power, and hydroelectrical facilities of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Work Location: 505 Paloma Way, Sunol, CA or 1000 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA 94030

Work Schedule: 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Monday - Friday

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Inspects, maintains, repairs, installs, and tests a variety of electrical equipment, up to 24,000 Volts, at utility facilities.

2. Maintains high voltage conductors; locates, isolates, removes and repairs faulty sections.

3. Performs de-energized maintenance, repairs, installation and testing of a variety of electrical operating components of circuit breakers and transformers at substations, switchyards, and power generating facilities rated up to 300,000 Volts.

4. Maintains, operates, and adjusts power generating and substation equipment, including photovoltaic (solar).

5. Inspects, maintains, repairs, installs, and tests electrical equipment including switch gear, circuit breakers, instrumentation, valve actuators, battery banks, battery systems and power supplies.

6. Installs above ground and below ground conduits and pulls, terminates, and tests wire for motors, control panels, lighting fixtures, outlets, and other electrical equipment.

7. Performs phase balancing operations and makes load computations on a variety of electrical circuits; installs and maintains digital and analog circuit protective devices such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPS's) and ground fault circuit interrupters.

8. Performs insulation testing of cabling and motors, etc. to locate electrical faults.

9. Erects and uses ladders, scaffolds, staging, aerial lift trucks, light towers, and other related equipment.

10. Makes as-built and shop drawings of electrical installations.

11. Operates, racks and repairs circuit breakers and disconnect switches rated up to 24,000 volts.

12. Maintains, and repairs motor starters, including variable frequency drives rated up to 24,000 volts.

13. Prepares and submits reports for time, material used and completed work.

14. Performs related duties as required.

Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.

• Experience installing and maintaining Industrial Electrical systems
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting
• Extensive experience working with Transformers, Motors, Motor Controls, VFD’s (1-2500hp), Speed drives, SCADA and DCS systems.
• Extensive experience bending, cutting and threading Galvanized Rigid Steel conduit and PVC-coated Galvanized Rigid Steel conduit.
• Experience working on large pumps and the associated motors (350hp-2500hp), motor controllers, circuit breakers and switchgear, up to 4160 vac.
• Working knowledge of Limitorque and Auma valve actuators used in the transmission and distribution of drinking water.
• Experience working on UPS 500va to 150kva
• Experience working around chemicals
• Experience installing and repairing chemical injection pumps.
• Experience, with no reservations to working in Confined Spaces, Bucket Trucks and Scissor Lifts.
• Extensive experience performing electrical work at Industrial, commercial and residential sites and facilities.
• Experience operating/repairing Medium Voltage Equipment
• Experience working with voltages up to 60kv

Qualifications

Education: Completion of a recognized five-year Inside Wireman Apprenticeship Program or other verifiable recognized five-year training program specific to industrial electrical equipment.

Experience: Two (2) years of verifiable journey-level electrician experience in the installation, maintenance, and operation of high voltage (above 600 volts).

License and Certification: Possession of a valid California (Class C) driver license.

Substitution: Additional verifiable journey-level electrician experience in the installation, servicing, repair, maintenance, and operation of high voltage (above 600 volts) can be substituted for the education requirement on a year-for-year basis.

Important Note:

• One year of full-time employment is equivalent to 2000 hours. (2000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week.) Any overtime hours that you work above forty (40) hours per week are not included in the calculation to determine full-time employment.
• Applications without listed duties will not be considered and rejected.
• Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

Verification of Education and Experience:

Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications and Verification of Experience and/or Education for considerations taken when reviewing applications.

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process.

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

Additional Information

• Information About the Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

• Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Job Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the job analyst, Crystal Liu at cliu@sfwater.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.