Electrician

Position Description

Working at Harris County Precinct 4:

You will be surrounded by team members who bring "heart, hustle, and higher standards" to work each day. These leaders advance opportunity and justice as they deliver services to and advocate for the residents of Harris County. The team you will be joining is innovative, dynamic, and forward-looking.

What you will do at Harris County Precinct 4:

Harris County Precinct 4 seeks an Electrician. This position installs and repairs wiring, electrical fixtures, apparatus, and control equipment at all of Precinct 4's facilities.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plans new or modified installations to minimize waste of materials, provide access for future maintenance, and avoid unsightly, hazardous, and unreliable wiring, consistent with specifications and local electrical codes.

• Prepares sketches showing location of wiring and equipment, or follows diagrams or blueprints, ensuring that concealed wiring is installed before completion of future walls, ceilings, and flooring.

• Measures, cuts, bends, threads, assemble, and installs electrical conduit.

• Pulls wiring through conduit.

• Repair lighting in office to ball field lights on 60' poles.

• Splices wires by stripping insulation from terminal leads, twisting or soldering wires together, and applying tape or terminal caps. Single Phase and Three Phase.

• Troubleshoot water wells and lift stations.

• Connects wiring to lighting fixtures and power equipment. Installs control and distribution apparatus such as switches, relays, and circuit-breaker panels.

• Connects power cables to equipment, such as electric range or motor, and installs grounding leads.

• Tests continuity of circuit to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components with testing instruments such as ohmmeter, battery and buzzer, and oscilloscope.

• Observes functioning of installed equipment or system to detect hazards and need for adjustments, relocation, or replacement.

• Repairs faulty equipment or systems.

• Will be required to be on-call after hours.

• May require working before, during, or after an emergency or disaster at the department's discretion.

Harris County is an Equal Opportunity Employer

https://hrrm.harriscountytx.gov/Pages/EqualEmploymentOpportunityPlan.aspx

If you need special services or accommodations, please call (713) 274-5445 or email ADACoordinator@bmd.hctx.net

Requirements

Education & Experience:

• One (1) year certificate from college or technical school

OR

• At least three (3) months of related electrician experience and/or training

Any equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience may substitute for required experience.

License:

• Texas driver's license and a good driving record

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work with others and be team oriented.

• Flexible personality, open to new ideas, and suggestions.

• Good observation skills.

• Initiative and perseverance to complete projects.

• Polite communication and direction to others as necessary.

• Proficient in reading and interpreting documents such as plans, specs, and related articles, operating instruction, maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

• Can write routine reports and correspondence, maintain records; speak comfortably and effectively before other department heads on an informal basis.

NOTE: Qualifying education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be documented on your job application. You may attach a resume to the application as supporting documentation but ONLY information stated on the application will be used for consideration. "See Resume" will not be accepted for qualifications.

General Information

Position Type and Typical Hours of Work:

• Regular | Full-time | 40 hours per week

• This may include weekends and holidays.

Location:

• Tomball

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach with hands and arms; frequently required to sit, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell.

• The carpenter must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• The employee is periodically exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; vibration; night-time shifts; and routine use of a computer monitor.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Featured Benefits:

Harris County employees receive a competitive salary plus medical, dental, and vision insurance at no cost to the employee after the first two months of full-time continued employment. Vacation, sick-time, and floating holidays allow our employees to recharge and balance work and personal time. Mandatory participation in our retirement program allows employees to save for retirement. Various other benefits and discounts lead to the satisfaction and engagement of our employees.

HOW TO APPLY:

If this job sounds interesting, you meet the required qualifications, and you can see yourself working for Precinct 4 as an Electrician, we invite you to apply online.

HARRIS COUNTY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER https://hrrm.harriscountytx.gov/Pages/EqualEmploymentOpportunityPlan.aspx

If you need special services or accommodations, please call (713) 274-5445 or email ADACoordinator@bmd.hctx.net.

Employment is contingent upon passing a background check and drug screen.

Due to a high volume of applications positions may close prior to the advertised closing date or at the discretion of the Hiring Department.

BENEFITS

Harris County offers a competitive benefits program, including comprehensive group health and related benefits plan as well as defined benefit retirement plan.

The following list of benefits is offered only to employees in regular (full-time) positions:

• Medical Coverage

• Dental Coverage

• Vision Coverage

• Wellness Plan

• Life Insurance

• Long-term disability

• Employee Assistance Program

• Ten (10) days of vacation each year for the first five (5) years of service

• Accrual rates increase based on years of service

• Eleven (11) County-observed holidays and one (1) floating holiday

• Professional development opportunities

• Dependent Care Reimbursement Plan

• Healthcare Reimbursement Account

• 457 Deferred Compensation Plan

The following benefits are also available to regular (full-time) employment and may be available to part-time employees:

• Retirement Pension (TCDRS)
• Flexible schedule (varies by department)
• Transportation Assistance (Metro RideSponsor Program)

In accordance with the Harris County Personnel Regulations, Group Health and related benefits are subject to amendment or discontinuance at any time. Commissioners Court reserves the right to make benefit modifications on the County's behalf as needed.

For plan details, visit the Harris County benefits website:

https://benefitsathctx.com/

01

Which of the following best describes your highest level of education completed as it relates to this position?

• High School or GED diploma

• Associate Degree

• Bachelor's Degree

• Master's Degree or higher

• None of the above

02

Do you have a one (1) year certificate from college or technical school?

• Yes

• No

03

Which of the following best describes your verifiable related electrician experience and/or training? (To be considered, qualifying experience must be documented in your application's employment history)

• Less than three (3) months

• Three (3) months but less than six (6) months

• Six (6) months but less than one (1) year

• One (1) year but less than two (2) years

• Two (2) years or more

• I do not have this experience

04

For this position, a valid Texas Driver's License is necessary. Please choose the option that best describes your situation: (Please be sure to include all related details in the Certificates and Licenses section of your application.)

• Yes, I currently hold a valid Texas Driver's License.

• Yes, I possess a valid Out-of-State Driver's License, but I am aware that I must acquire a valid Texas Driver's License before the start date.

• No, I do not currently have a driver's license, but I commit to obtaining one before the start date.

• No, I do not currently have a valid driver's license.

Required Question

Agency Harris County

Address 1111 Fannin St

Ste. 600

Houston, Texas, 77002

Phone 713-274-5445

Website https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/harriscountytx