You will serve as a HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICIAN LEADER in the PUBLIC WORKS of NAVFAC NORTHWEST.

Duties

You will serves as high voltage electrician leading at least 3 employees in a high voltage electrical team in completing accomplishing high voltage electrical inspections, repairs, and maintenance activities. You will checks condition of transformers, switches, and cable. Tests insulating oil of transformers and oil switches for breakdown and contamination. You will leads the crew in troubleshooting cable systems to locate shorts, opens, grounds, crosses, electrolysis damage, capacitance imbalance, or cable breaks, using such common electrical test devices as voltmeter, ohmmeter, and megger. You will leads personnel who install, modify, and replace generation and distribution equipment in substations, power-generating facilities, transformer vaults, and/or distribution centers. You will assign the workload and making assignments based on the ability, capability and experience of the crew members to support work priorities, schedules, production requirements and maintenance workloads, and the availability of equipment.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• You will be required to possess and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• May be required to obtain and maintain current licenses to operate equipment.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Call back and emergency obertime are regular requirements of this position.
• May be assigend to any basic work or shift horus, including alternating shifts, recall and or work nights, weekends and holidays.
• May require special certification or license if assigned work requires special certification or licensing to perform the work or to use specialized tools or equipment.

Qualifications

Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying. Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the job elements and screen out listed below. This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job. Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible. The Screen-out Element for this position is: ABILITY TO LEAD OR SUPERVISE: 1) Repairing high voltage power generating and distributing equipment (e.g. generators, transformers, switches, circuit breakers, recording instruments, and control systems); 2) Reading circuit drawings and diagrams to identify electrical problems; 3) Using high voltage test equipment (e.g. oscillators, primary and secondary injection tester, meggers, phase sticks, phase rotating meters, digital equipment, and fault finding equipment); 4) Installing transformers, capacitors, insulators, switches, circuit breakers and fuses for main distribution lines over 600V; 5) Using hot-line tools and safety equipment such as wire tongs, wire tong supports, insulated tension links, blankets, tie sticks, sleeves, and insulated gloves when working on high voltage systems. Applicants must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Job Qualification Handbook for Trades and Labor Occupations. Additional qualification information can be found at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Contacts

• Address NAVFAC NORTHWEST 1101 Tautog Circle Silverdale, WA 98314 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]