Treatment Plant Electrician

Date Opened: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 12:00 AM

Close Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $23.00 - $38.18 Commensurate with Experience

SUMMARY

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

Salary:

$57,165.00 - $63,516.00 Commensurate with Experience

Essential Job Functions:

• Maintains the electrical aspects of equipment critical to operations.
• Conducts preventative maintenance activities by inspecting motors, pumps, fans, and electrical distribution equipment regularly; cleaning and checking/tightening connections in electrical equipment; and using a thermal testing device.
• Troubleshoots and diagnoses electrical malfunctions.
• Repairs, maintains or replaces electrical equipment/components such as breakers, starters, transformers, and small motors.
• Analyzes the mechanical and electrical condition of motors.
• Installs/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, or 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.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO PERFORM WORK:

• Technical school education/electrical trade program, or associate 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.
• Must be available to work occasional overtime, subject to emergency call back, and perform on-call duty as required.
• Must be able to be anywhere in Mecklenburg County within 60 minutes of your residence barring traffic issues.

LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS OR REGISTRATIONS:

• Requires valid driver's license.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of electrical circuits with the ability to read and comprehend electrical schematics and construction diagrams.
• Knowledge of electrical repair tools and devices.
• Knowledge of electrical power monitoring instrumentation.
• Skill in using electrical repair tools and devices.
• Ability to obtain a City driving authorization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The work is medium work and requires applying 30 pounds of force frequently and exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: balancing, climbing, crouching, feeling, grasping, handling, perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, distinguishing among sounds, kneeling, lifting, mental acuity, pulling, pushing, reaching, standing, stooping, talking, visual acuity in data/color/observations/equipment/inspections, and walking. This position may require the following physical demands at any given time: Stand for long periods of time. Use hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls. Must also be able to bend or twist their body, climb ladders and scaffolds, kneel, stoop, distinguish sounds at normal speaking levels. Have ability to reach above head, use muscles to lift, push, pull, or carry heavy objects (up to 50lbs).

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work is performed in an environment that may periodically have unpredicted requirements or demands. Requires working on-call as scheduled.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and assign other duties at any time. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were written out in this job description.

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.

The City of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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.

You are welcome to visit the City of Charlotte Human Resources Department lobby where we have workstations available. Our office is located at 700 East 4th Street, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28202. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST), excluding official City holidays.

For questions about your application or the hiring process, please email Careers@ci.charlotte.nc.us.

The City of Charlotte is committed to making the job application process accessible to all. Upon request, auxiliary aids, written materials in alternate formats, language access, and other reasonable accommodations or modification will be provided. To make a request, please email HRADAAdministration@charlottenc.gov, call 704-962-6168, or visit us in person at 700 4th St., Charlotte, NC 28202.

BENEEFITS

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