Utility Electrician - Moccasin - Hetch Hetchy Water & Power, SFPUC (7385) (Temporary Exempt)

Company Description

• Application Opening: April 10, 2026
• Application Filing Deadline: May 22, 2026 (*extended from May 8, 2026 to broaden candidate pool)
• Recruitment ID: Exempt- RTF0154283-01157758

Reporting Location: Moccasin, CA - 3.5 hours East of San Francisco

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

WHO ARE WE?
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.gov.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

Job Description

Project: Cottage and Facility Rehabilitation Project

Under general supervision, performs inspection, maintenance, repair, installation, and testing of a variety of electrical systems and equipment, up to 600 Volts energized and 601 Volts to 301,000 Volts de-energized, used at the water, wastewater, power, and hydroelectrical facilities of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Essential Duties:

1. Inspects, maintains, repairs, installs, and tests a variety of electrical equipment, up to 24,000 Volts, at utility facilities.

2. Maintains high voltage conductors; locates, isolates, removes and repairs faulty sections.

3. Performs de-energized maintenance, repairs, installation and testing of a variety of electrical operating components of circuit breakers and transformers at substations, switchyards, and power generating facilities rated up to 300,000 Volts.

4. Maintains, operates, and adjusts power generating and substation equipment, including photovoltaic (solar).

5. Inspects, maintains, repairs, installs, and tests electrical equipment including switch gear, circuit breakers, instrumentation, valve actuators, battery banks, battery systems and power supplies.

6. Installs above ground and below ground conduits and pulls, terminates, and tests wire for motors, control panels, lighting fixtures, outlets, and other electrical equipment.

7. Performs phase balancing operations and makes load computations on a variety of electrical circuits; installs and maintains digital and analog circuit protective devices such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPS's) and ground fault circuit interrupters.

8. Performs insulation testing of cabling and motors, etc. to locate electrical faults.

9. Erects and uses ladders, scaffolds, staging, aerial lift trucks, light towers, and other related equipment.

10. Makes as-built and shop drawings of electrical installations.

11. Operates, racks and repairs circuit breakers and disconnect switches rated up to 24,000 volts.

12. Maintains, and repairs motor starters, including variable frequency drives rated up to 24,000 volts.

13. Prepares and submits reports for time, material used and completed work.

14. Performs duties as assigned.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you need to clearly state in your application how you meet the following minimum qualifications- include the voltages you operated.

Education: Completion of a recognized five-year Inside Wireman Apprenticeship Program or other verifiable recognized five-year training program specific to industrial electrical equipment.

Experience: Two (2) years of verifiable journey-level electrician experience in the installation, maintenance, and operation of high voltage (above 600 volts).

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