Electrician

Summary

The position is located in the Facility Management Service Center of the James J Peters VA Medical Center in Bronx, New York.

Applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Experience is not tied to a specific length of training, but applicants must demonstrate sufficient scope and quality of training or experience to perform the duties of this position. Evidence supporting the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for this role should be provided in detailed descriptions on your resume.

Applicants will be evaluated against the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards and screened on a prescribed screen‑out element that typically appears as question 1 in the online questionnaire. Eligible applicants are then rated on the remaining job elements:
Electric Drawings, Electrical Equipment Technical Practices (Electrical/Electronic), Troubleshooting (Electrical), Use and Maintain Hand Tools (Electrical Work), and other relevant competencies. Volunteer experience, including National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps) and other organizations, can be credited as qualifying experience if the duties, responsibilities, and duration are clearly documented.

• Incumbent installs, modifies, repairs, maintains, troubleshoots, tests, and loads new and existing electrical lines, circuits, systems, and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment.
• Work includes secondary power distribution lines and circuits used to supply a wide range of voltage, amperage, phase, and frequency requirements to distribution panels, switch gear, and power and control circuits.
• Handle industrial multiphase systems, thermocouple sensors, electrical intrusion alarm and fire alarm systems, emergency warning systems, lighting protection systems, high‑intensity lighting systems with associated controls, target mechanisms, AC and DC rectification systems, galvanic and impressed current cathodic protection systems, and amplifier circuits and related electrical equipment.
• Use building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, and electrical maintenance and repair manuals to plan and layout routing, placement, type, size, gauge, balance, load, continuity, and safe operation of electrical lines, circuits, systems, equipment, and controls supporting industrial operations, computer complexes, or similar complex electrical loads.
• Trace hard‑to‑locate defects or problems related to the completion of repairs and installations.
• Determine and place distribution panels, boxes, fittings, and connections; install wiring, couplings, conduit, relays, fixtures, transformers, and other electrical devices including electrical service entrances.
• Work schedule:
  
  Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm.
• Physical requirements:
  
  Repairs and installations are performed from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and other hard‑to‑reach places. The work requires frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing, and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Lifting and carrying of tools, equipment, and parts weighing up to 20 pounds (and less often up to 40 pounds) is required.
• Working conditions:
  
  Work is conducted both inside and outside. The incumbent may need to make repairs and installations in bad weather and in noisy, dirty, dusty, or greasy environments. Tasks may involve scaffolding or cranes at heights of 30 feet or more and in confined spaces such as manholes and attics. Exposure to potential injury from falls, electrical shock, burns, and rotary devices such as motors, as well as cuts and bruises, is frequent.