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Power Plant Electrician Trainee III

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Posted 2 days ago

On-site Fort Thompson, SD $48.9/hr Apply by Jul 7, 2026 High Voltage Electrician ISTJISTP Trades
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About the Role

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for certain competitive positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This position is located at Big Bend Project Office, operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and situated in Fort Thompson, South Dakota.

What You'll Do

  • Works under the direction and guidance of a journeyman electrician performing a wide variety of duties involved in the inspection, adjustment, maintenance, repair, testing, installation and modifications for the electrical equipment and systems.
  • Installs, modifies, tests, troubleshoots, repairs and maintains a wide variety of electrical and electronic equipment common to hydroelectric power plants, switchyards and associated water control structures.
  • Incumbent will be repairing and maintaining the following equipment: High voltage switchyard equipment such as breakers, transformers, manually and motor operated disconnect switches, lightning arresters, instrument transformers and potential devices and cable systems.
  • Protective relaying systems for high voltage transmission lines, feeder circuits, generators, transformers, switchyard busses, and cable systems.
  • Hardwired and digital computer based automatic supervisory control, data acquisition and alarm and event recording systems, including automatic generation, voltage control, telemetering, and communication systems Instrumentation systems such as indicating meters and recording systems for temperature, liquid levels, and flows, gate positions, watts, vars, voltage, amperes, frequency, and pressures.
  • High/Low and medium voltage switchgear, and power distribution centers and cable systems including project utilities such as power distribution lines, feeders and transformers.

Personality Fit

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Job ID: 9405d357-15f9-4927-9587-24799463f38f

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