Electrician, Exterior

ASRC Federal; Wichita Falls (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

ASRC Federal Gulf State Constructors seeks an Electrician, Exterior to support Sheppard AFB Base Operations. The role involves installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing exterior electrical systems and high voltage infrastructure on military facilities.

Responsibilities include wiring luminaires, transformers, distribution equipment, and grounding systems, guided by blueprints and NEC standards. U.S. citizenship and SECRET clearance eligibility are required.

Qualifications

• Experience with exterior electrical installations and system maintenance.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, wiring diagrams, and schematics.
• Knowledge of National Electric Code and local codes.
• Ability to qualify for SECRET clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Install and service overhead and underground street lighting equipment.
• Repair distribution equipment, transformers, switches, and cables.
• Test and repair electrical lines and fixtures up to high voltage.
• Troubleshoot and repair grounding systems and lighting protections.
• Follow plans and drawings to route and install electrical systems correctly.
• Work from plans to ensure safe operation of circuits and equipment.

Skills

Electrical troubleshooting

High voltage systems

Blueprints interpretation

Safety compliance

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

ASRC Federal Gulf State Constructors is seeking a Electrician, Exterior in support of our Sheppard AFB Base Operations Support Contract Located in Wichita Falls, TX.

Overview

Install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical systems and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment (50 volts or higher). Install, troubleshoot, test, repair, and maintain high voltage generating, controlling, and distributing systems in powerhouses, substations, and underground and overhead power lines. Maintain and repair airfield lighting systems. Perform general maintenance electrician work that requires rounded training and experience usually acquired through a formal apprenticeship or equivalent training and experience.

Responsibilities

• Installs, modifies, connects, inspects, troubleshoots, and repairs overhead and
  underground street lighting equipment. Sets up and aligns poles, erects cross arms and fixtures, strings conductors, installs transformers and services with connections.
• Repair primary distribution equipment such as cracked insulators, broken pins, wires, short circuits, and loose connections. Check condition of transformers, switches, and cables. Test insulating oil of transformers and oil switches for breakdown and contamination.
• Install transformers on hangers, lighting arresters, switches, and fuses.
• Troubleshoot cable systems to locate shorts, opens, grounds, crosses, cable breaks. Selects and installs insulators, joins line conductors by a splicing. Strings wires, pulls wires to proper tension, and sag. Installs and replaces arms and cross arms and attach pole guys.
• Install, modify, and test electrical lines, circuits, systems, fixtures, controls, and equipment 50 volts or higher, amperage, phase and frequency requirements.
• Install, maintain, and repair all types of grounding systems and lighting protections
  systems.
• Works from building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, and
  electrical maintenance and repair manuals to plan and layout routing, placement, type, size gauge, balance, load, continuity, and safe operation of electrical lines, circuits, systems, equipment, and controls.
• Work on wide variety of equipment, including motors, motor control devices, speed control units, and automatic control equipment. Install, and maintain the electronic controls for machines in business and industry.
• Pull insulated wires or cables through the conduit to complete circuits between boxes and manholes. Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, and other components. Join wires in boxes with various specially designed connectors.
• Perform preventive/recurring maintenance. Advise management on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous.
• Interprets and applies the National Electric Code, local codes, building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams and engineering drawings and uses trade formulas to calculate common properties. E.g. voltage drops, and current capacity in series and parallel circuits, resistance, inductance, capacitance, power factors, current flow, and temperature and length in single and multiple raceways, conduit, gutters and cable trays.
• Makes necessary repairs as quickly as possible to minimize inconvenience. Work with Engineers, engineering technicians or industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.
• Other duties as assigned to support mission and customer requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Valid Driver’s License
• Must possess or be able to obtain within 90 days of hire a Valid state drivers license Class B or higher CDL
• Knowledge of Exterior Electrical, Industrial Components & high voltage
• Must be able to qualify for SECRET security clearance
• Must be a US or Permanent Citizen due to contract requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Current Journeyman Electrician License