Description

Potomac State College (WVU Keyser), part of the West Virginia University system of campuses, located in Keyser, WV is seeking applications for a Trades Specialist II (Electrician).

About the Opportunity

The Trades Specialist II (Electrician) position will perform both installation of new construction and general maintenance of existing facilities utilizing journeyman level electrical skills working under the direction of Associate Director or Trades Specialist Lead II

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:

• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 15 annual leave (vacation) days per year
• 18 sick days per year (for when you're ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family's, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ's.
• Wellness programs

What you'll do

• Function as a trades team member, follow procedures and make work assignments to ensure work is completed in a timely fashion, ensuring proper quality and quantity. Inspect completed work assignments and helps to ensure quality control. Ensure that proper safety procedures, equipment and personal protective equipment are used while performing job duties.
• Receive work orders. Interface with work control, supervisor and requesting party to finalize project needs and scope. Assist supervisor with multi-craft projects related to overall work assignments. Communicate work schedules and goals to employees and customer, creating efficiency and a timely completion of assignments.
• Provide continual inspection of assigned area to ensure maintenance is completed on schedule, recommend to the supervisor major repair need, assist supervisor in updating deferred maintenance list.
• Read and review prints on new and existing building projects for repair or construction associated with specific job duties and expertise. Develop as built sketches of completed projects.
• Maintain knowledge of state, federal and local codes and requirements pertaining to maintenance and construction. Attend project meetings and interact with contractors, vendors and engineers as needed.
• Determine and recommend to the supervisor the needs of the project regarding, types of crafts, material availability, equipment, paperwork safety checks to maintain proper work and material flow to maintain schedule.
• Provide daily reports on actual progress versus project progress to supervisor. Maintain the original scope of project to ensure project cost control. Inform supervisor of needed discipline and performance problems. Ensure that work group processes all work requests, materials requisitions, weekly reports, and invoices necessary to complete assignments according to Facilities operation.
• Individual at times will be required to work overtime or adjust their work shift to meet operational needs. For example, scheduled building outages for the purpose of performing preventive maintenance may be scheduled in the early morning prior to the arrival of building occupants, thus requiring the electrical crew to adjust their start time. The supervisor will schedule the approved outage and this position will assist the supervisor in posting the building. Emergencies or unplanned outages may also require a call-out or overtime.
• Maintain, inspect, and assure that testing of specialized equipment is completed. This includes testing equipment (medium voltage tester, amp meter, proximity tester, and megger); also, the infrared camera technology must be used while performing PM work orders to capture photos of equipment as part of the preventive maintenance work. These photos must be downloaded and saved to create a history of this equipment to reference and compare with future PMs of these buildings. Lead also has the responsibility to see that all Personal Protective Equipment (medium voltage gloves, sleeves, di-electric hard hat, safety glasses, and face shield or hood and flash suit); other safety equipment may be used (hot sticks, rubber blanket, and arc flash blankets). All Lock-Out/Tag-Out devices must be in place and used to ensure the safety of all employees who are performing these PM tasks.
• Install, repair, and inspect electrical distribution equipment and wiring both inside and outside buildings to verify capacities.
• Install and maintain circuit breakers, sub-station switchgear, and transformers.
• Splice and terminate high voltage cable using current state-of-the-art materials and methods.
• Install, maintain, repair, and inspect wires and auxiliary equipment, such as fuses, insulators, and switches to ascertain capacities and working conditions, utilizing thorough knowledge of types, sizes, and styles of equipment.
• Install and maintain fire alarms, emergency lighting, emergency generator power transfer switches, and those items associated with life safety, as they pertain to the electrical field.
• Install and maintain all control systems for motors, lights, heat, and air controls, participating with various crafts as required to properly troubleshoot and repair control systems.
• Design routing plans, install, and maintain new electrical conduit, tubing, wire mold, raceway, and associated accessories to accommodate electrical and telecommunications wiring. This duty requires pipe fitting ability.
• Install and maintain existing and new lighting systems for both interior and exterior to buildings, including streetlights and parking lot lighting.
• Utilize bucket truck and power scaffolding to install and maintain lighting and power distribution systems.
• Install, maintain, test, repair, and adjust laboratory, laundry, kitchen, etc. equipment, as required within the normal University setting.
• Participate in the installation of simple electronic control systems, clock systems, etc.
• Ensure that all local, state, and federal building codes are maintained.
• Work in areas designated as confined spaces.
• Maintain an organized work area to include cleanliness, safety, and security of materials.
• Assist with building maintenance requests; ability to diagnose and repair various equipment as needed. This may include, but is not limited to, electrical repairs, such as replacing switches, lamps, ballasts, outlets, breaker resets. Responsible for troubleshooting circuits up to 277 VAC, single phase.
• Assist, as needed when needing other trades, or support staff in maintaining, repairing, diagnosing building conditions.
• Assist in plumbing related repairs and maintenance. This includes, but is not limited to, faucets, plugged drains, replacement of worn traps, repair of leaks and drips in various sinks, tubs, and plumbing systems.
• Assist all general maintenance duties related to mechanical equipment systems; this is not limited to but may include routine maintenance and repairs on condensing and chilled water pumps, air handling units, cooling towers, fan coil units.
• Must have the ability and knowledge to diagnose and repair pneumatic systems and controls.
• Assist in carpentry related repairs and maintenance, this includes installing interior and exterior doors (wood or metal) including frames, jambs, door stops, interior and exterior trim and associated hardware such as hinges, locks, closures, panic hardware, etc.; all interior and exterior walls and wall covering including partitions, paneling, siding, wallpaper, plastic wall covering, etc.
• Install interior and exterior walls, partitions, paneling, siding, wallpaper, plaster wall coverings, insulation, wood trim (i.e. moldings, casings, baseboards), metal studding; installs and finishes drywall.
• Will perform general painting duties, such as: painting walls, ceilings, trim, and furniture using enamel/latex paints with brushes, rollers, and low-pressure sprayers; patches and prepares surfaces for painting to include finishing drywall or similar tasks requiring basic painting skills
• Operate as a first responder to odors, leaks, electrical failures, and plumbing related failures; should have the ability to redirect requests if additional support, or specialized staff is required.
• Coordinate the return of materials to warehouse that are not needed for project completion.
• Participate in WVU offered training classes that pertain to their job classification in order to keep up with changes in technology and codes to ensure that all WVU building codes are maintained.
• Other duties as assigned

Pay Grade: 14

Work Hours: 7am-3pm

Qualifications

• Completion of vocational/technical training in a maintenance field of up to 18 months beyond high school or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Two (2) years of experience in repair, maintenance and installation of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration
• Two (2) years as a journeyman electrician
• Basic knowledge of other trades such as HVAC, plumbing, electronics, and carpentry. Practical experience in crew leadership and the ability to work independently. Experience in coordination of construction, renovation, and maintenance projects.

• Electrician Certification
• Valid Driver's License