Utility Electrician - Water Supply Treatment Division - SFPUC (7385)

Job Description:

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.

Work Location:  505 Paloma Way, Sunol, CA or 1000 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA 94030

Work Schedule:  7:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Monday - Friday

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

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 related duties as required.

Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.

• Experience installing and maintaining Industrial Electrical systems

• Extensive experience in troubleshooting

• Extensive experience working with Transformers, Motors, Motor Controls, VFD’s (1-2500hp), Speed drives, SCADA and DCS systems.

• Extensive experience bending, cutting and threading Galvanized Rigid Steel conduit and PVC-coated Galvanized Rigid Steel conduit.

• Experience working on large pumps and the associated motors (350hp-2500hp), motor controllers, circuit breakers and switchgear, up to 4160 vac.

• Working knowledge of Limitorque and Auma valve actuators used in the transmission and distribution of drinking water.

• Experience working on UPS 500va to 150kva

• Experience working around chemicals

• Experience installing and repairing chemical injection pumps.

• Experience, with no reservations to working in Confined Spaces, Bucket Trucks and Scissor Lifts.

• Extensive experience performing electrical work at Industrial, commercial and residential sites and facilities.

• Experience operating/repairing Medium Voltage Equipment

• Experience working with voltages up to 60kv