Summary
The electrician position is located with the George E. Whalen Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah Engineering Service. As a journeyman electrician, the incumbent performs a combination of design, installation, testing, uses, repair, and/or maintenance of electrical equipment, components, instruments, and/or systems.
Duties
Duties include but are not limited too:
- Maintain, repair, and install electrical and electronic systems and equipment.
- Utilizes all instruments correctly and equipment normally used by journeyman electricians.
- Uses appropriate test equipment to prevent overloading.
- Utilizes protection gear and general personal protective equipment (PPE) for work on electrical systems.
- Pull conductors through raceway systems, phase out and make connections.
- Conducts annual tension/polarity tests on all electronic receptacles in patient care areas.
- Provides routing for conduits and wiring for electrical boxes, panels and equipment.
- Traces hard-to-locate defects or problems associated with the completion of repairs and installations.
- Perform preventive maintenance and testing of complex electrical systems, circuits, equipment, appliances, controls, components, lighting fixtures, emergency electrical systems and back-up electrical systems.
- Install, modify, repair, troubleshoot, test and check for proper voltage capacity, loading of wires and equipment, and balancing of loads.
- Performs preventative maintenance and troubleshoots high voltage (4,160v) primary systems.
- Select proper gauges, insulation, protection devices and switching for a variety of equipment.
- Balances service loads over three phases.
- Installs, modifies, repairs, troubleshoots, and tests new and existing substations.
- Troubleshoots complex electrical systems, circuits, equipment, appliances, controls, components, lighting fixtures, emergency electrical systems and back-up electrical systems.
- Troubleshoots/repairs, inspects and operates all emergency generators and elevators on station.
- Reads blueprints, plans, prices and prepares orders for materials needed for assignments.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; Various tours available
Position Description Title/PD#: Electrician/PD14014A
Physical Requirements: The incumbent makes repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and other hard-to-reach places. This requires electrical workers to stand, stoop, bend, kneel, climb, and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Electrical workers frequently lift and carry tools, equipment, and parts that weigh up to 9 kilograms (20 pounds) and, less often, up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds). Occasionally, they lift or move with assistance moderately heavy objects weighing more than 18 kilograms.
Working Conditions: The work is performed both inside and outside. Electrical workers are sometimes required to make repairs and installations in bad weather; in work areas that are noisy, dirty, dusty, and greasy; on scaffolding or cranes at heights of 9 meters (30 feet) or more; and in close quarters such as manholes, attics, or aboard ships. They are occasionally exposed to the possibility of injury from falling, electrical shock, burns, and rotary devices such as electrical motors. They are frequently exposed to the possibility of cuts and bruises. Electricians are exposed to a variety of weather conditions, both in winter and summer, in making repairs and installations on exterior work sites. During emergency repairs, extremes of bad weather are sometimes present. Many work sites are hot, dirty, dusty, greasy, poorly lit, cramped and with unpleasant odors. The incumbent may be required to work in the vicinity of asbestos containing materials; as such, the incumbent will be required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment as necessary to accomplish assigned tasks in a safe manner.
Required Documents
Documents Accepted:
- Cover Letter
- DD-214/ Statement of Service
- Disability Letter (VA)
- License
- Other (1)
- Professional Certification
- Resume
- Separation Notice (RIF)
- SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
- Transcript
Documents Required:
Please review the above list(s) to ensure you have included all necessary documents required for your application. Not every applicant will require the same documents, therefore it is the applicants responsibility to ensure that their application package includes all necessary documents to determine qualifications and eligibility for appointment, such as a copy of your SF-50, transcript, ICTAP/CTAP documentation (for displaced Federal employees).
You will not be contacted for additional information. Applicants will be deemed ineligible if supporting documentation is not submitted.
Veterans' Preference:Since the Direct-Hire Recruitment Authority is being used, traditional Veterans' Preference rules do not apply. Qualified veterans will, however, be given full consideration for this position.
Applications are accepted online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application.
How to Apply
All applicants are encouraged to apply online.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 07/11/2025 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12755763.
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Next steps
After the vacancy announcement closes, applicants are evaluated to ensure qualification and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certificate(s) is issued and applicants will be notified of their status by email.