Treatment Plant Electrician #2201-152500-01

Date Opened

Monday, March 14, 2022 11:00 AM

Close Date

Thursday, October 27, 2022 5:30 PM

Section

Charlotte Water

Salary

$51,811 - $57,567 Commensurate with experience

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Overview

The City of Charlotte is the largest municipality in North Carolina and the 17th largest city in the United States, with a total population of more than 872,498 citizens. A major commerce center, Charlotte hosts several of the nation’s largest banks and technology companies.

Also known as the Queen City, Charlotte is home to the Carolina Panthers, the Charlotte Hornets and the NASCAR Hall of Fame. We work hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play. Join us in helping to keep our City thriving, ensuring upward mobility and advancement in the workplace.

Function

This position maintains, upgrades, and troubleshoots plant electrical problems.

Summary

Work involves performing maintenance, upgrades, installation, and troubleshooting of electrical components and equipment that pertain to the City's water treatment processes, structures, and assets; repairing, maintaining, or replacing electrical equipment/components (breakers, starters, transformers); maintaining, connecting, and disconnecting electrical motors up to 480v; inspecting electrical instrumentation and performing minor repairs. This position determines health life of critical electrical equipment and instruments and provides solutions to pending and/or post electrical component failures.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains the electrical aspects of equipment critical to operations

• Conducts preventative maintenance activities by inspecting motors, pumps, fans, and electrical distribution equipment regularly; cleaning, checking, and tightening connections in electrical equipment; and using a thermal testing device, and vibration monitor.

• Troubleshoots and diagnoses electrical malfunctions.

• Repairs, maintains, or replaces electrical equipment and/or components such as breakers, starters, transformers, small motors up to 5hp.

• Analyzes the mechanical and electrical condition of motors.

• Installs and/or replaces conductors as necessary.

• Must be able to properly install various forms of conduit, such as PVC-Coated, Rigid Galvanized Conduit, Rigid Aluminum Conduit, PVC-Schedule 40

• Disconnects electrical connections on electrical equipment as necessary for maintenance, repair, replacement.

• Maintains facility lighting.

• Maintains UPS batteries, changing as required

• Makes additions, extensions, and or alterations in electrical systems by modifying wiring and hardware as directed by supervisor.

• Performs calibrations on electrical & instrumentation devices (for example, types of calibrations will include but are not limited to: turbidity meters, chlorine analyzers, venturi meters, etc.)

• Builds Control Panels as required.

• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of electrical circuits, and ability to read electrical schematics and electrical construction diagrams.

• Knowledge of electrical repair tools and devices.

• Knowledge of electronic instrumentation.

• Skill in using electrical repair tools and devices.

• Ability to obtain a City driving authorization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Technical school education/electrical trade program, or associates degree from an accredited school, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work/industry/military/apprenticeship/job specific experience that provides the

necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the essential job functions in the electrical maintenance field.

• Five (5) years of related work experience.

• Requires valid driver’s license

Conditions of Employment

The City’s Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a credit history check, sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.

Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidate’s written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report, motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment drug-screening test and physical examination. During the selection process, candidates may be asked to take a skills test, and/or participate in other assessments.

As of October 1, 2021:

The City of Charlotte requires proof of COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment for any new City of Charlotte employees.

The City is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such, will consider reasonable accommodations as required by law.

How To Apply

Apply online.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.

Anyone seeking an accommodation to apply for a job may call (704) 336-2285 for assistance or you may email questions to CityHrJobPostingsNotify@ci.charlotte.nc.us.

Benefits

The City of Charlotte provides a comprehensive benefits package to all employees.

Click here to learn more about the City of Charlotte’s benefits.

The City of Charlotte is a drug and alcohol-free workplace.

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