Electronic Industrial Controls Mechanic.

Duties

• Perform services on the Utilities Monitoring and Controls System (UMCS) for monitoring and controlling HVAC, fire/life, safety, security, energy, and utility systems in a variety of facilities.
• Conduct scheduled maintenance and troubleshooting tasks such as tightening contacts and connections, replacing fuses, resistors, and analog boards as needed.
• Use a line analyzer to measure voltage settings on analog boards; use a decade box (resistance simulator) to check sensors and calibrate analog boards; and use a digital VOM fluke to adjust voltage within 1/10,0000th of a volt on analog boards.
• Operate hand-held H2T test simulator or laptop computer on Field Processing Units to bypass keyboard controls while in field to adjust or alter set points.
• Use facility schematics of system locations which provide a graphic representation for identifying a problem source.
• Use mnemonic codes for calling up field data points and enter values and status elements that establish the parameters or command the UMCS to monitor each field data point.

Requirements

• Conditions of employment: Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Incumbent must possess and maintain a valid state driver’s license. Loss of license may result in removal from the position.
• Lifting requirement: Up to 50 pounds.
• Physical requirements: Employee handles and carries tools, equipment, and test equipment weighing 50 pounds or less and is required to stoop, stretch, bend, kneel, and work in uncomfortable positions to reach parts of the system when modifying and adjusting sensors.
• Working conditions: Work is primarily performed inside but the employee may occasionally be required to work outside and in drafty attic spaces and cramped areas with low overheads or sudden temperature changes during maintenance or troubleshooting EMCS.

Qualifications

• Ability to do the work of an Electronic Industrial Controls Mechanic without more than normal supervision.
• Troubleshoot, install, repair and maintain commercial/ industrial heating, ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) control systems and energy monitoring systems control systems.
• Apply a comprehensive knowledge of electrical control systems to repair, maintain and service a variety of electrical and electronic systems to include digital, mechanical equipment and electronic controls.
• Interpret electronic, electrical, and mechanical drawings, specifications, and schematics of complete control systems.
• Interface devices to monitor programs, trend data, modify, schedule, reset, and analyze problems.