Treatment Plant Electrician

Overview

Date Opened:
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 12:00 AM

Close Date:
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 12:00 AM

Department:
Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $25.04 - $31.30 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our Guiding Principles Include

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce
• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development
• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services
• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems
• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

Summary

Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $3.65 billion, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1100 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 26 budget is $651 million and a five-year capital program of $2.28 billion.

We enjoy the highest credit ratings from Moody’s and S&P Global as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.

Salary

The salary for this position is: $28.17 to $31.29 an hour, Commensurate with Experience

This position maintains, upgrades, and troubleshoots plant electrical problems. Work involves performing maintenance, upgrades, installation, and troubleshooting of electrical components and equipment that pertain to the City's water treatment processes, structures, and assets; repairing, maintaining, or replacing electrical switchgears (breakers, starters, transformers); maintaining, connecting, and disconnecting electrical motors; and inspecting electric instrumentation and performing minor repairs. This position determines health life of critical equipment and instruments and provides solutions to pending and/or post electrical component failures.

• Maintains the electrical aspects of equipment critical to operations
• Conducts preventative maintenance activities by inspecting motors, pumps, fans, and electrical distribution equipment regularly; cleaning and checking/tightening connections in electrical equipment; and using a thermal testing device.
• Troubleshoots and diagnoses electrical malfunctions.
• Repairs, maintains, or replaces electrical switchgears (breakers, starters, transformers).
• Analyzes the mechanical and electrical condition of motors.
• Installs new electrical systems and devices.
• Pulls wires.
• Disconnects electricity as needed.
• Maintains, connects, and disconnects electrical motors.
• Maintains and repairs various electrical apparatus of structures
• Installs new electrical systems and devices.
• Makes additions, extensions, and or alterations in electrical systems by: installing wires; changing electrical design, plug lights, and switches; designing; and installing
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

• High School Graduate or Equivalent with Five (5) years of related work experience.
• OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant work/industry/military/job specific experience that provides the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the essential job functions.

• Requires a valid driver’s license
• Must obtain and maintain a City Driver’s Permit.
• Requires…