Maintenance Electrician

Pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors including scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate qualifications, business considerations, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

About the Role

Fermilab is seeking a Maintenance Electrician IV to join the Infrastructure Services Division (ISD). Under direct supervision, this role involves performing journeyman-level predictive, preventive, corrective, and emergency maintenance and repairs on equipment and systems including electrical distribution systems of all voltages up to 13.8 KV, motors up to 1000 horsepower, emergency generators, and HVAC systems and equipment in a 24/7 maintenance operation.

Responsibilities

• Responds, troubleshoots, and completes service work orders by repairing, rebuilding, maintaining, servicing, and operating electrical distribution systems, Motor Control Centers (MCC), motors, emergency generators, lighting and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
• Performs programmed, preventive and predictive maintenance via work orders on electrical distribution systems, MCC, motors, emergency generators, lighting and HVAC systems.
• Performs routine operational maintenance work orders on electrical distribution systems, motors, emergency generators, lighting, and HVAC systems.
• Recommends improvements in operations of maintenance and repairs of electrical systems.
• Performs equipment operation and surveillance tasks and diagnoses electrical failures on electrical equipment and systems which include MCC, motors, generators, lighting, heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, switches, transformers, and other electrical distribution systems components.
• Completes emergency equipment repair work orders on electrical distribution systems, motors, emergency generators, lighting, and HVAC systems.
• Documents work activities for utilization in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Attends all necessary Environmental Safety & Health and Facilities Engineering Services Section (FESS) training as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Abides by and is responsible for performing all duties in accordance with all environmental, health and safety regulations and practices pertinent to this position.

Requirements

• High school diploma.
• 5+ years of electrical maintenance experience.
• Basic knowledge of electrical systems and safety procedures.
• May be required to legally operate a government vehicle.

Work Arrangement

This is an onsite role, and the candidate must be able to work from our Batavia office. The described work arrangement is subject to change based on business needs.

Pay

The expected hiring range for this position is $42.90–$44.52 per hour.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and flexible spending accounts.
• Paid time off.
• Life insurance.
• Short and long-term disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits.
• Onsite day care.

About Fermilab

Fermilab is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. We support discovery science experiments in Illinois and locations around the world, including deep underground mines in South Dakota and Canada, mountaintops in Arizona and Chile, CERN in Europe and the South Pole.

An offer of employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening. New employees are required to obtain and maintain a HSPD-12 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credential, which includes a federal background check investigation. This investigation covers declaration of illegal drug activities, including use, supply, possession, or manufacture, and applies to marijuana and cannabis derivatives regardless of state laws.