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High Voltage Electrician Supervisor
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Posted 4 days ago
On-site Round Hill, VA $46.3 – $54/hr Apply by Sep 25, 2026 High Voltage Electrician ISTJISTP OperationsTrades
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In this position you will work as a member of the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), Facilities Management, Maintenance Branch. The facility is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, approximately 60 miles west of Washington, D.C., within over 600 acres of cleared and wooded land. The ideal candidate will have experience in supervising commercial and industrial and electrical work and technical skills working with high voltage (12 kilovolt) electrical work.
What You'll Do
- →All MWEOC staff have emergency assignments and are considered deployed in place.
- →Exercises and activations are planned and unplanned, and may require long hours, nights, weekends and holidays.
- →All MWEOC employees are: (1) required to use a government-issued electronic device (to include cellular phones); (2) subject to recall during emergency situations; and (3) required to perform work in locations both above and below ground.
- →What will I do in this position if hired?
- →In this position, you will serve as a High Voltage Electrician Supervisor responsible for supervising in the maintenance, repair, and modification of low and high voltage electrical systems and equipment.
- →As senior electrician, you will also be responsible for electrical maintenance, installation, testing, troubleshooting and repair.
- →Typical assignments include: Troubleshooting and repair of electrical wiring systems and associated fixtures, controls, equipment in industrial, commercial office, and residential buildings.
- →Traces and repairs hard to locate defects or problems.
- →Repairs or replaces a wide variety of electrical equipment.
- →Reading building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, and electrical maintenance and repair manuals to install electrical lines, circuits, systems, equipment and controls.
- →Installing various types of conduits with associated couplings, connectors, and straps, to include electrical metallic tubing (EMT), rigid, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), liquid tight flexible conduit, and wire mold (pulling and terminating wire in all of the above); wiring and installing service distribution panels and disconnects, transformers, switches and receptacles.
- →Interpreting and applying the National Electrical Code, local codes, building plans, and uses formulas to calculate common properties. i.e. ohms law.
- →What else do I need to know?
- →At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management.
Requirements
- ✓To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy.
- ✓To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for a Top Secret/SCI clearance as a condition of placement into this position.
- ✓This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information).
- ✓For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.
- ✓The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.
- ✓If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
- ✓Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below.
- ✓Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
- ✓You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- ✓Selective Service registration required.
- ✓Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements.
- ✓You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- ✓You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time.
- ✓Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 59d2ecbe-5d0e-494a-bfb3-349406a20936
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