GIS Installation Trainee

Siemens Energy, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Health benefits

Paid time off

401K savings plan

Family benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Siemens Energy, Inc. is seeking a GIS Service Supervisor Trainee in the United States to collaborate with the Grid Technology Service Substation Upgrades team. You will assist in assembly, testing, commissioning, and maintenance of GIS systems while coordinating with team members and contractors for safe, efficient project delivery.

The role emphasizes customer interaction, problem solving, and learning across GIS service tasks, with opportunities to contribute to proposals and cost estimates.

Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of electrical engineering principles is required.
• Strong willingness to learn and adapt in a field with evolving GIS service tasks.
• Ability to collaborate with teams and customers to ensure project success.

Responsibilities

• Supervise GIS service projects at job sites and coordinate activities.
• Troubleshoot faults in GIS equipment and related electrical systems.
• Manage and guide contractors performing GIS service work.
• Interface with customers and partners to ensure task completion.
• Collaborate with field teams to address issues during work.
• Assist in creating proposals including planning and cost estimation.

Skills

Electrical engineering basics

Willingness to learn

Teamwork

Self-motivation

Education

Degree: foundational understanding of electrical engineering principles

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a GIS Service Supervisor Trainee, your day will involve working closely with the Grid Technology Service Substation Upgrades team on various Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) Service projects. You will assist in tasks such as assembly, testing, commissioning, and maintenance of GIS systems. Your role will require you to coordinate with team members and contractors, ensuring that projects are completed efficiently and safely while providing excellent customer service.

As a GIS Service Supervisor Trainee, your day will involve working closely with the Grid Technology Service Substation Upgrades team on various Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) Service projects. You will assist in tasks such as assembly, testing, commissioning, and maintenance of GIS systems. Your role will require you to coordinate with team members and contractors, ensuring that projects are completed efficiently and safely while providing excellent customer service.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Supervise and coordinate GIS Service projects at job sites, ensuring smooth operations.
• Learn to troubleshoot and analyze faults in GIS and related electrical equipment.
• Manage and guide contractors performing GIS service work.
• Interface with customers and partners to ensure successful completion of project tasks.
• Collaborate with team members in the field to address any issues that arise during work.
• Assist in creating proposals for GIS service projects, including planning and cost estimation.

What You Bring

• Degree: A foundational understanding of electrical engineering principles.
• Experience: No prior experience in GIS installation, commissioning, maintenance, and repair is required, but a strong desire to learn is essential.
• Certification: A Siemens Energy HV GIS Certificate is preferred but not required.
• Construction Site Experience: Experience working on construction sites is beneficial but not mandatory.
• Computer Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Personal Qualities: Self-confidence, strong work ethic, teamwork, organization, and dedication.
• Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.

About The Team

Grid Technologies

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Rewards

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• 401K savings plan with company match
• Family building benefits
• Parental leave

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