GENERAL MAINTENANCE WORKER - ELECTRICIAN

Position Summary:
General Maintenance Worker/Electrician performs highly skilled maintenance, installation, repair and troubleshooting work with electrical systems. Electrical work may be performed in a number of areas including heating, refrigeration, motors, fire alarms, and generator equipment. 

This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all-inclusive.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
•    Assemble, install, test, and maintain electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools.
•    Diagnose malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and components, using test equipment and hand tools, to locate the cause of a breakdown and correct the problem.
•    Connect wires to the circuit breakers, transformers, or other components.
•    Inspect electrical systems, equipment, and components to identify hazards, defects and the need for adjustment or repair, and to ensure compliance with codes.
•    Advise management on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous.
•    Test electrical systems and continuity of circuits in electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures, using testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, and oscilloscopes, to ensure compatibility and safety of system.
•    Maintain current electrician’s license or identification card to meet governmental regulations.
•    Plan layout and installation of electrical wiring, equipment and fixtures, based on job specifications and local codes.
•    Direct and train workers to install, maintain, or repair electrical wiring, equipment and fixtures.
•    Prepare sketches or follow blueprints to determine the location of wiring and equipment and to ensure conformance to building and safety codes.
•    Use a variety if tools and equipment such as power construction equipment, measuring devices, power tools, and testing equipment including oscilloscopes, ammeters, and test lamps.
•    Install ground leads and connect power cables to equipment, such as motors etc.
•    Perform business management duties such as maintaining records and files, preparing reports and ordering supplies and equipment.
•    Repair or replace wiring, equipment, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools.
•    Work from ladders, scaffolds, and roofs to install maintain or repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures.
•    Place conduit (pipes or tubing) inside designated partitions, walls, or other concealed areas, and pull insulated wires or cables through the conduit to complete circuits between boxes.
•    Construct and fabricate parts, using hand tools and specifications.
•    Fasten small metal or plastic boxes to walls to house electrical switches or outlets.
•    Perform physically demanding tasks, such as digging trenches to lay conduit and moving and lifting heavy objects.
•    Provide preliminary sketches and cost estimates for materials and services.
•    Provide assistance during emergencies by operating floodlights and generators, placing flares, and driving need vehicles. 
•    Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of all NHF buildings, and employee residences.
•    Plan and coordinate activities of general maintenance workers.
•    Responsible for development and implementation of an ongoing Preventive Electrical Maintenance program.
•    Responsible for maintaining electrical compliance with State and federal building codes, Fire and Safety regulations and environmental Health regulations.
•    Follows oral instructions or written work orders concerning the location of the job and the work to be done, the work is largely without direct supervision.
•    Exercise independent judgement, make selections from a wide variety of materials and equipment and substitutes on his/her initiative.
•    Accountable for the quantity and quality of work done, directing the work operations passing on orders and instructions and is responsible to the supervisor for:
o    Demonstrate proper work methods.
o    Ensure that needed plans, blueprints, materials