Treatment Plant Electrician

Date Opened: Friday, May 23, 2025 12:00 AM

Close Date: Sunday, June 08, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $23.00 - $38.18 Commensurate with Experience

SUMMARY

Charlotte's local government, with more than 7,000 employees and a $2.39 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone - a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn, and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with 300,000 customer accounts and over 1000 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews, and Pineville. Charlotte Water's FY 23 budget is $535M and a five-year capital program of $2.5 billion. We enjoy the highest credit ratings from all three major credit rating agencies as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.

SALARY:

$57,165.00 - $63,516.00 Commensurate with Experience

JOB SUMMARY:

This position maintains, upgrades, and troubleshoots plant electrical problems. Work involves performing maintenance, upgrades, installation, and troubleshooting of electrical components and equipment that pertain to the City's water treatment processes, structures, and assets; repairing, maintaining, or replacing electrical switchgears (breakers, starters, transformers); maintaining, connecting, and disconnecting electrical motors; and inspecting electric instrumentation and performing minor repairs. This position determines health life of critical equipment and instruments and provides solutions to pending and/or post electrical component failures.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Maintains the electrical aspects of equipment critical to operations
• Conducts preventative maintenance activities by inspecting motors, pumps, fans, and electrical distribution equipment regularly; cleaning and checking/tightening connections in electrical equipment; and using a thermal testing device.
• Troubleshoots and diagnoses electrical malfunctions.
• Repairs, maintains, or replaces electrical switchgears (breakers, starters, transformers).
• Analyzes the mechanical and electrical condition of motors.
• Installs new electrical systems and devices.
• Pulls wires.
• Disconnects electricity as needed.
• Maintains, connects, and disconnects electrical motors.
• Maintains and repairs various electrical apparatus of structures
• Installs new electrical systems and devices.
• Makes additions, extensions, and or alterations in electrical systems by: installing wires; changing electrical design, plug lights, and switches; designing; and installing
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO PERFORM WORK:

• Technical school education or associate degree in electrical field from an accredited school.
• Five (5) years of related work experience.
• OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant work/industry/military/job specific experience that provides the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the essential job functions.

Licenses, Certifications or Registrations:

• Requires a NC Collection System Operators Grade I state certification (or obtaining level 1 certification within 18 months of hire) with progressive levels of certification each year thereafter.
• Requires a valid driver's license.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of electrical circuit and electrical construction diagrams.
• Knowledge of electrical repair tools and devices.
• Skill in using electrical repair tools and devices.
• Ability to read electrical schematics.
• Ability to obtain a City driving authorization.
• Ability to follow safety directions.
• Ability to follow instructions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The work is medium work and requires applying 30 pounds of force frequently and exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: balancing, climbing, crouching, feeling, grasping, handling, perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, distinguishing among sounds, kneeling, lifting, mental acuity, pulling, pushing, reaching, standing, stooping, talking, visual acuity in data/color/observations/

equipment/inspections, and walking.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work is performed working in an environment where errors on this job can lead to significant physical or mental consequences for self or others. Requires working in confined spaces, below ground including wet wells and working at heights, working under varied and adverse weather conditions; and responding to after-hour alarms subject to emergency call-back.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and assign other duties at any time. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were written out in this job description.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The City's Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a credit history check, sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.

Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidate's written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report, motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment drug-screening test and physical examination. During the selection process, candidates may be asked to take a skills test, and/or participate in other assessments.

The City of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply online.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.

You are welcome to visit the City of Charlotte Human Resources Department lobby where we have workstations available. Our office is located at 700 East 4th Street, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28202. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST), excluding official City holidays.

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BENEEFITS

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