Electrician

Electrician (8195C) - 82400

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Residential and Student Service Programs (RSSP) is part of the Division of Student Affairs under the direction of the Associate Vice Chancellor of RSSP. RSSP provides student housing, residential life programs, self‑operated dining services for undergraduate and graduate students and their families, and child care services for students, faculty, and staff; it also conducts a year‑round conference business, operates eleven campus restaurants, and manages twenty‑six faculty apartments.

The Central Maintenance, Design, and Minor Capital Projects units provide a comprehensive group of services to all units within RSSP. These services include performing or managing all building trades and related maintenance services, performing interior design services, space planning, renovation project planning and management services, major maintenance, minor capital planning and project management for RSSP.

Working as part of the skilled trades group and in conformance with the Electrician job scope, the incumbent performs planned and emergency repairs to all building fire alarm and life safety systems, wiring, devices, and equipment in accordance with a division‑developed calendar to meet all National Fire Prevention Association, and State Fire Marshall's Office compliance requirements. Incumbent performs work to achieve timely completion and full documentary compliance of this planned work along with any emergency or other unplanned fire and life safety system work that may arise.

The First Review Date for this job is: 11/27/2025.

Repairs and Maintenance:

• Installs, tests, repairs, troubleshoots, replaces, fabricates, modifies, maintains, performs planned and emergency repairs to fire systems, wiring, devices, and equipment.
• Perform fire alarm inspection, testing and maintenance in accordance with statutory and campus requirements.
• Participates in the design of new facilities, renovations, assemblies, systems, equipment, and controls.
• Prepares project drawings in detail showing measurement, materials, and other required information using information from building blueprints, verbal and other information.
• Performs work on shop fabrications.
• Performs planned and emergency maintenance, inspections, test operations, troubleshooting and documentation of work performed.
• Fabricate, place, terminate various types of buses, cables, conductors, wires.
• Installs, connect, test, operate, repair, replace, circuit breakers, controls, fuses, lighting, motors, outlets, signaling devices, switches, thermostats, timers, and wiring devices.
• Operate, calibrate, adjust, clean, service, and repair electrical components and systems.
• Responds to emergencies, work‑on‑call, rotating swing shift and…