QCW-Electrician

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This position is Benefit eligible; click here for an overview of available benefits.
This position is covered by the NP-2 Maintenance & Service Bargaining Unit; click here to review the current NP-2 Contract.
This position is in salary group TC-19; click here to review the current NP-2 TC Pay Plan.

Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a skilled Electrician to our Qualified Craft Worker - Electrical team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.

At UConn Health, this class is accountable for performing a full range of highly skilled duties in the electrical trades area. This position will work in Facilities Management - Electrical Services at UConn Health located in Farmington, CT. This position will provide services to multiple buildings on the UConn Health Campus including but not limited to; Outpatient Pavilion, UConn Health Surgery Center, UConn Musculoskeletal Institute, Munson Road, ASB, UConn Health John Dempsey Hospital, University Tower and any other UCH facilities.

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED: https://h.uconn.edu/benefits-classified

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Works under the general supervision of a Maintenance Supervisor or other employee of higher grade.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
May lead Qualified Craft Workers, Skilled Maintainers, Maintainers or other lower level employees as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY: Considerable knowledge of and ability to apply standard tools, materials, methods and practices of the particular trade; interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills; basic computer skills; ability to prepare estimates and keep shop records.

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
General Experience:
Four (4) years experience in the electrical trade area.

SPECIAL EXPERIENCE:
Two (2) years of the General Experience must have been performing skilled trade functions in the electrical trade area.

Note:

For state employees the Special Experience will be interpreted at the level of Skilled Maintainer or Department of Transportation Maintainer 2.

Substitution Allowed:
Graduation from a vocational or technical school with a diploma designating completion of subject requirements in a maintenance trade area may be substituted for two (2) years of the General Experience.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Must have E1 or E2 license.

Incumbents in this class may be required to possess and retain specific education and/or experience to meet various certification requirements.

PREFERRED: Three (3) years or more Commercial and/or Healthcare setting electrical service experience.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENT: Incumbents in this class must have adequate physical strength, stamina, physical agility and visual and auditory acuity and must maintain such physical fitness as to be able to perform the duties. A physical examination may be required.

WORKING CONDITIONS: Incumbents in this class may be required to lift moderate to heavy weights and to use protective equipment such as respirators and safety goggles; and may be exposed to risk of injury from equipment, extreme weather conditions and/or environmental conditions. Incumbents in this class may be required to complete an asbestos removal program consistent with the Environmental Protection Agency's operational guidelines.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES: Performs highly skilled maintenance and/or construction work requiring application of trade skills, codes and standard trade practices in the electrical trade area; makes estimates of time, personnel and determines and obtains required materials; keeps necessary records; may perform duties related to similar trade areas as required; may act as liaison with other operating units and outside contacts; may operate heavy equipment; may respond to fire and/or crash emergency situations at state owned airport; performs highly skilled tasks in accordance with national and local codes and standard trade practices; lays out and installs electrical conduit for power and lighting; makes repairs to electrical motors, controllers, switchboard panels, traffic lights, lights, power circuits, ventilating fans, electronic counting and traffic control devices, intercommunication systems and electrical generators; installs open and concealed wiring and lighting fixtures; maintains and repairs unit heaters, fans, buildings maintenance machines and equipment, gas pumps, refrigeration units, diesel electric generators, movable bridges, fire alarm systems, etc.; repairs relays and switches; rewinds motors; bends pipes; installs, repairs and maintains oil burners; performs necessary safety testing of electrical equipment and keeps required records; performs pole work; may diagnose failures and repair drilling and patching to facilitate installations; may assist in high voltage work. Performs related duties as required.

SCHEDULE: Full time, 37.5 hour work week, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., minor holidays are required, in urgent/emergency situations must be able to work other mandated shifts including weekends and holidays, 30 minute unpaid meal break.

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.