Electrician

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Employee Type: Regular

Perform all aspects of electrical maintenance and other duties as assigned.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs job duties in accordance with MSHA law and regulations, established company safety procedures, state and federal regulations.
• Performs electrical inspections on all in-service mining equipment and record repairs and findings into federal inspection book.
• Maintains & repairs low, medium, and high voltage electrical circuits.
• Installs/removes power cable from high voltage mining circuits.
• Performs troubleshooting on AC and DC circuits.
• Repairs, maintains, and troubleshoots DC motor and generator circuits on mining equipment.
• Operates mining support equipment.
• Operates the equipment to diagnose problems and to test after repair.
• Operates light vehicles to travel throughout the mine site. Maintains work area in a safe and clean manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/Skills & Competencies

Required

• Ability to read and interpret technical manuals and instructions, and electrical prints and schematics.
• Knowledge of National Electric Code, MSHA regulations.
• Knowledge of basic electrical theory.
• Knowledge of high voltage switchgear and be able to safely operate it.
• Knowledge of basic electrical test instruments.
• Knowledge of PLCs and Variable Frequency Drives.
• Obtain MSHA Electrical Certification becoming a Qualified Person - able to perform electrical work in a mine after 1 year of work experience.

Preferred

• Electrical technical training at a vocational school or an electrician apprenticeship.
• Possess MSHA Electrical Certification or be able to obtain it within the required time.

Analysis of Physical Demands for Postion

• Intermittent: none
• Occasionally (0 - 1/3 of workday): lifting and pulling floor to waist up to 50 pounds (trail cable); lifting waist to eye level up to 50 pounds; bilaterial and unilateral carrying up to 50 pounds; pushing up to 50 pounds; pulling up to 100 pounds; standing; work arms over head; work bent over/stooping; work kneeling; work bent over/sitting; work squatting; work arms over head-supine; climbing stairs; repetitive squatting; walking-uneven; walking-even.
• Frequently (1/3 - 2/3 of workday): speaking (general communications); color vision (color codes, wiring).
• Continually (2/3 - 3/3 of workday): sitting; grasping; bent wrists; vibration; alternating hand movements; equipment/tool handling; arm/elbow movements; head movement/rotation; hearing (troubleshooting, hazards, instructions); seeing (driving, troubleshooting) and depth perception (rotating equipment, electric switchgear).

Note

This position requires working rotating shifts, on weekends and holidays, in dusty conditions, in high places and in all weather conditions.