Electrician Technician
Precision Castparts
- Texas
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Plans new or modified installations to minimize waste of materials, provide access for the future maintenance, and avoid unsightly, hazardous, and unreliable wiring, consistent with specifications and local electrical codes.
- Prepares sketches showing location of wiring and equipment or follows diagrams or blueprints.
- Measures, cuts, bends, threads, assembles, and installs electrical conduit.
- Pulls wiring through conduit.
- Splices wires by stripping insulation from terminal leads, twisting or soldering wires together, and applying tape or terminal caps.
- Connects wiring to lighting fixtures, power equipment, and machinery.
- Installs control and distribution apparatus such as switches, relays, and circuit-breaker panels.
- Connects power cables to equipment.
- Tests continuity of circuit to ensure electrical compatibility and safety of components with testing instruments.
- Observes functioning of installed equipment or system to detect hazards and need for adjustments, relocation, and replacement.
- Repairs faulty equipment or systems.
- Discusses layouts, assembly procedures, problems with Supervision, Engineering and can draw sketches to clarify design details and functional criteria of electronic or electrical circuitry.
- Assembles experimental circuitry (breadboard) or complete prototype model.
- Recommends changes in circuitry or installation specifications to simplify assembly and maintenance.
- Sets up standard test apparatus or devises test equipment and circuitry to conduct functional, operational, environmental, and live tests to evaluate performance and reliability of prototype or production model.
- Analyzes and interprets test data.
- Adjusts, calibrates, aligns, and modifies circuitry and components and records effects on unit performance.
- Checks functioning of newly installed equipment to evaluate system performance under actual operating conditions.
- Two-year degree in Electrical Technology or related field or Journeyman Electrical License and a minimum of two years of industrial field experience.
- Minimum of five years of direct work experience in an industrial setup will substitute for the above requirement.
- Interpret documents such as Schematics, Wiring, Ladder diagrams, Operating and Maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Experience working with electronics and solid-state devices such drives, programmable automation controllers, radio controls and metering equipment.
- Numerical Control or CNC experience is desired but not a requirement.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules and manuals, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to speak effectively to other employees and vendors.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts and fundamentals of plane, solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety or technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Ability to operate a fork truck and a man lift.
- Ability to work with computer and specific software.