Electrical Maintenance Jrymn-1st Class

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.
 

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
 

Testing Required: EEI CAST and EMJ Hands-On Skills Demonstration

 

Job Summary

Under indirect and intermittent supervision of a supervisor, or work direction of a work leader, as a member of a crew or alone; Installs, inspects, rebuilds, modifies, tests, aligns, adjusts, repairs and maintains, in emergency situations or as scheduled work, a wide variety of electrical equipment in stations, substations, power plant mats, customer property and other Company locations.  Work from blueprints, diagrams, drawings, manuals, job procedures, handbooks, iPad, and handbook articles or from verbal information supplied by engineers, technicians or factory representatives.  Maintains, repairs and is exposed to AC and DC voltages up to and including transmission levels.  Work on energized equipment up to 4.8 KV.  Maintains and uses test equipment, hand and power tools and all equipment necessary to perform the work.  Adapt to new methods, processes, material and equipment.  Completes report forms for all duties performed.  Trains, directs, instructs and checks work of electrical maintenance apprentices and other assigned employees.  Give approvals for completed work.

Key Accountabilities

• Installs, rebuilds, modifies, inspects, tests, aligns, adjusts repairs & maintains at designated locations, electrical equipment operating at AC&DC voltages up to & including transmission levels, such as air, gas, & oil circuit breakers, power & distribution transformers, current & potential transformers, peaking units, capacitors, reactors, disconnects, ground switches, AC&DC motors & generators, control panels, relay schemes, etc.
• Performs duties of inspecting, repairing, adjusting, testing, installing & troubleshooting & diagnosing problems on electrical equipment such as:
• Circuit Breakers: Testing insulating parts, cleaning contacts, replacing rods & parts, adjusting electrical, hydraulic & pneumatic mechanisms.
• Disconnects: Aligning blades, checking insulators & operating mechanisms. Use conductivity tester, abrasives.
• Power Transformers: Working on a wide variety of types & sizes including those with manual & /or automatic tap changers, water, air or oil cooled & pressurized. Test meggers insulation, cleans, resets & repairs tap changers, temperature gauges, alarms, bushings&radiators. Check fans, valves & pumps, replacing worn parts & packing when required.
• Voltage regulators & operating mechanisms which are rated to 1000kVA & are oil or air blast cooled. Cleans/adjusts mechanism, sets limit switches, megger tests windings, & tests water coils.
• Network Banks: Transformers, protector mechanisms, primary switches & secondary fuse blocks.
• Components of AC&DC buses; must properly prepare buses for hi-potential tests by checking for cracks & defective insulators, removing insulators, reinforcing buses, etc.
• Air compressors, governors, relief valves, contractors & pressure controls, dismantling & rebuilding compressors, replacing rings, valves, bearings, filters, etc. Any type of lighting or power installation, electric space or water heater, alarms, controls, annunciators, interlocks. etc.
• READS, INTERPRETS & WORKS from Company or vendor blueprints, diagrams, drawings, manuals, computers, iPad, etc., or verbal information supplied by engineers, technicians or factory representatives, occasionally may be required to perform jobs for which information may be missing or in error. Interface with engineers to resolve problems. Fill out completion reports. Initiate orders for work. Report faulty or unsafe equipment to their supervisor.
• Wires or rewires panels for controls, relay, alarms, meters, etc, including those having electro-mechanical, solid state & vacuum tube components. Performs wor