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Fermilab's Infrastructure Services Division is seeking a skilled Maintenance Electrician to join our team. As a key member of our maintenance team, you will perform electrical journeyman level predictive, preventive, corrective, and emergency maintenance and repairs on equipment and systems.

• Perform electrical maintenance and repairs on electrical distribution systems, Motor Control Centers (MCCs), motors, emergency generators, lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
• Respond to and complete service work orders by repairing, rebuilding, maintaining, servicing, and operating electrical distribution systems, MCCs, motors, emergency generators, lighting, and HVAC systems.
• Recommend improvements in the operation and maintenance of electrical systems.
• Diagnose electrical failures on electrical equipment and systems, including MCCs, motors, generators, lighting, HVAC equipment, switches, transformers, and other electrical distribution systems components.
• Complete emergency equipment repair work orders on electrical distribution systems, motors, emergency generators, lighting, and HVAC systems.
• Document work activities for utilization in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Attend all necessary Environmental Safety & Health (ES&H) and Facilities Engineering Services Section (FESS) training as required.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by reporting manager.

• 5-10 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in direct digital control is advantageous.
• Ability to work rotating shifts after 3 months of the 6-month probationary period.
• Ability to work overtime when required.
• Ability to perform sustained physical labor at a moderate level.
• Must meet Laboratory physical and educational requirements for Oxygen Deficiency Hazard (ODH), Radiation Worker, Confined space, and High Noise Areas.
• HVAC experience a plus.
• May be required to interpret correct temperature and pressure relationships (superheat and sub-cooling) for AC/Refrigeration systems.
• Working knowledge of NEC (National Electrical Code) a plus.
• Journeyman Apprentice Training/Certification, Trade School or Military equivalent desirable.
• High Voltage maintenance experience a plus.
• NFPA 70 E training and/or knowledge.
• DDC/PLC Controls and VFD experience a plus.

• Able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Repetitive lifting of moderate weight.
• Able to climb stairs and ladders, and stand for up to 4-hours per day.
• Able and willing to work occasional overtime on short notice in response to operational and emergency requirements.
• Able to legally operate cars and light trucks.

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 at 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.

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