ELECTRICIAN

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Install, maintain, and repair electrical appliances, systems, facilities, and related electrical controls and devices. Helps maintain buildings, grounds, equipment, and utilities and their use; attends maintenance and engineering activities with other departments; staff meetings, safety, and other meetings, as directed by the Director of Maintenance and Plant Operations.

Duties:

• Repairs, installs, replaces, and tests electrical circuits, equipment, and appliances using hand tools and testing instruments to supply electrical power for lighting and equipment operation in the hospital.
• Inspects and tests electrical lighting, signal, communication, and power circuits and equipment
• Isolates defects in wiring, switches, motors, and other electrical equipment using testing instruments such as ammeter, ohmmeter, voltmeter, or testing lamp.
• Examines and tests such elements of systems as distribution panels, controls, circuit fixtures, and motors to locate apparent faults such as blown fuses, short circuits, broken wires, loose connections, and worn motors.
• Replaces faulty switches, sockets, plugs, fuses, insulators, and other simple elements of electrical systems, fixtures, and appliances.
• Renews circuits either by isolating and cutting out defective wiring and replacing it with new wiring or by splicing ends of broken wires.
• Dismantles electrical machinery with hand tools and unsolder or unscrew wiring connections.
• Replaces such defective mechanical parts as gears, bushings, and bearings and such related electrical parts as armatures, commentators, and transformers, assembling components according to diagrams.
• Checks clearance of moving parts with precision gauges.
• Restores electrical connections to complete circuits.
• Install new wiring and electrical machinery.
• Studies blueprints and diagrams to ascertain the layout, location, and specifications of items to be installed.
• Estimates quantities of materials needed.
• Cuts and shapes conduit with hand tools and fastens it in place with brackets.
• Fasten fixtures, switches, and outlet boxes in positions.
• Runs wire through conduit and makes connections to complete circuits.
• Assembles, installs, and connects components of switchboards and distribution panels and connects them to units controlled.
• Mounts motors, transformers, lighting fixtures, or other equipment into position and completes circuits according to diagram specifications.
• May perform related work, such as recording time and materials expended on each work order; operating lathe, grinding, and polishing machines on making, finishing, and rebuilding parts of equipment; and performing minor carpentry, plastering, and painting in connection with repair work.
• Performs various duties in and around buildings and grounds of the hospital complex in completing their tasks.
• Performs additional duties requested by the Supervisor/Director

5 years electrician experience.

High School Diploma or Equivalent required.

The New Jersey Pay Transparency Act requires disclosure of the pay range for this position.

A salary offer will vary based on the job role, candidate experience, qualifications, internal pay equity and market data.