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Electrician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
The Electrician performs journeyman-level installation, modification, preventive maintenance, inspection, troubleshooting, testing, and repair of facility electrical systems up to 480 volts at the Kansas City VA Medical Center. Work includes branch circuits, panels, switchgear, transformers, motor-control circuits, emergency-power and generator systems, lighting, and related components.
What You'll Do
- →The Electrician independently installs, modifies, maintains, inspects, troubleshoots, tests, and repairs electrical systems and equipment through 480 volts, ensuring code-compliant, safe, and reliable operation throughout the medical center.
- →Work includes preventive maintenance, system diagnostics, repairs, electrical upgrades, and documentation of all completed tasks.
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to the following: Performs preventive maintenance and inspection of electrical systems up to 480 volts, including branch circuits, panels, switchgear, transformers, motor-controls, emergency-power equipment, generator systems, lighting, and related components.
- →Conducts scheduled inspections, electrical testing, documents results, corrects deficiencies, and ensures compliance with NEC, VA requirements, manufacturer specifications, and OSHA safety procedures.
- →Installs and modifies circuits, receptacles, lighting systems, panels, switchgear, transformers, and power/control circuits following proper voltage, amperage, conduit, wire-size, and protection requirements.
- →Performs maintenance and repair of circuits, panels, switchgear, motor-controls, emergency-power systems, and generator electrical components; resolves overloads, breaker failures, wiring issues, grounding, and load-balance deficiencies.
- →Troubleshoots and tests electrical systems using wiring diagrams, manuals, and instruments such as multimeters, clamp ammeters, megohmmeters, and circuit analyzers; diagnoses complex or intermittent failures.
- →Completes documentation and closes work requests in accordance with established procedures.
- →Performs other related duties as assigned.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM Position Description Title/PD#: Electrician/PD10576A Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Physical Requirements: The work requires frequent and sustained physical exertion in accomplishing installations, modifications, troubleshooting, and repairs on facility electrical systems.
- →The electrician performs work from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, rooftops, and other elevated or confined locations, often accessing components in hard-to-reach spaces behind equipment, above ceilings, and within mechanical rooms.
- →These tasks require regular standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing, crouching, and working in tiring or uncomfortable positions for extended periods.
- →The electrician frequently lifts, carries, and moves tools, equipment, wire reels, conduit bundles, transformers, panels, and other electrical materials weighing over 40 pounds, and may be required to lift heavier items when installations or repairs demand it.
- →Work routinely involves maneuvering materials of various sizes and shapes through tight or obstructed pathways, requiring considerable physical effort and coordination.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3d0edec8-907d-4d0c-b366-4977586d71c3
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