Remote HV/MV Electrical Testing Technician

NES Fircroft; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Per diem and travel opportunities

Long-term project opportunities

Job summary

NES Fircroft is seeking an Electrical Apparatus Testing Technician to support utility, industrial, renewable energy, data center, and EPC projects across the United States. This hands-on role tests, commissions, troubleshoots, and maintains high- and medium-voltage power equipment in substations and critical power environments.

You will perform transformer, circuit breaker, switchgear, CT/PT, cable, grounding, and battery testing, interpret diagrams, and document test procedures and field

Qualifications

• 3+ years of electrical apparatus testing, electrical testing, or substation commissioning experience.
• Hands-on experience testing medium- and high-voltage electrical equipment.
• Experience testing transformers, circuit breakers, switchgear, CTs/PTs, cables, or similar power system equipment.
• Experience using electrical test equipment from manufacturers such as Doble, Megger, Omicron, Vanguard, Phenix, or similar.
• Experience performing tests such as TTR, winding resistance, insulation resistance, power factor/tan delta, contact resistance, breaker timing, and primary injection.
• Ability to troubleshoot electrical power equipment and interpret test results.
• Ability to read one-line diagrams, electrical drawings, and equipment schematics.

Responsibilities

• Perform electrical apparatus testing, commissioning, maintenance testing, troubleshooting, and startup activities.
• Test power transformers, circuit breakers, switchgear, CTs/PTs, cables, bus, grounding systems, batteries, and other electrical power equipment.
• Perform transformer testing including insulation resistance, winding resistance, turns ratio, power factor/tan delta, excitation current, and related diagnostic testing.
• Perform low-, medium-, and high-voltage circuit breaker testing including contact resistance, insulation resistance, timing, travel, and primary injection testing.
• Test CTs and PTs including ratio, polarity, insulation, excitation, and related electrical tests.
• Perform cable testing including insulation resistance, VLF, Hi-Pot, and other applicable diagnostic testing.
• Perform grounding system testing, battery testing, and electrical equipment inspections.
• Complete primary current injection testing on switchgear, breakers, and associated electrical distribution equipment.
• Troubleshoot electrical equipment failures and identify issues with transformers, breakers, switchgear, cables, and other apparatus.
• Read and interpret one-line diagrams, electrical drawings, equipment manuals, and test procedures.
• Complete test reports, field documentation, equipment condition reports, and commissioning records.

Skills

Electrical testing

Substation testing

Troubleshooting

Reading schematics

Tools

Doble M4000

Doble M4100

Megger equipment

Omicron CPC 100

Vanguard instruments

Phenix instruments

Job description

NES Fircroft is seeking an Electrical Apparatus Testing Technician to support utility, industrial, renewable energy, data center, and EPC projects across the United States. This hands-on role tests, commissions, troubleshoots, and maintains high- and medium-voltage power equipment in substations and critical power environments.

You will perform transformer, circuit breaker, switchgear, CT/PT, cable, grounding, and battery testing, interpret diagrams, and document test procedures and field