Electrician - Open Until Filled

The Position

Job Appointment: Full-Time

Typical Schedule: Schedule will vary by bureau.

• Portland Parks and Recreation: Thursday - Monday, 8am - 4:30pm
  
• Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT): Monday - Friday, 6am - 2:30pm
  
• Fleet and Facilities: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4pm
  
• Bureau of Environmental Services (BES): Monday - Friday 6am - 2:30pm. Flexible start/end times, as well as alternate schedules, are available, after serving 6-month probationary period.
  
  

Work Location: Various locations throughout the city.
Benefit: Please check our benefits tab for an overview of benefits for this position
Language Pay Premium Eligible: This position is or may be eligible for Language Pay Differential for qualifying employees.
Union Representation: District Council of Trade Unions (DCTU). To view this labor agreement, please click here . Applicants start at the entry salary rate . If you are a DCTU represented employee, see labor agreement for additional information or talk to your union representative.

Application Material: Please click APPLY to submit your application via the City of Portland’s online portal. You will need to respond to the supplemental questions and attach a resume.

Position Summary:
Are you a skilled electrician looking for more than just a paycheck? Do you want to use your talents to contribute to the community, enjoy work-life balance, and take advantage of comprehensive benefits? The City of Portland is seeking qualified electricians who are ready to make a meaningful impact in the public sector.
Electricians install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair a variety of electrical and instrumentation equipment, electrical systems, sub-systems, circuits, and controls such as motors, service equipment, generators, controllers, electrically operated valves and pumps, welding machines, electronic controls, microprocessors, transformers, services, branch circuits including traffic control circuits and other components/facilities as assigned. Work varies from bureau to bureau but could include rigging guy wires, installing signal heads and streetlights, splicing cable, repairing, and installing appliances and light fixtures. In some instances, responsibilities may include working on alarm systems, instrumentation, distributed control systems, communication systems, and/or PLC programming and repair.
Work also includes implementing scheduled maintenance programs using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Work may involve off-hour standby, various work shifts/hours, weekends, and, occasionally, mandatory overtime.

Total Compensation:
Have you ever wondered if you’re truly making a difference? If you’re looking for a more meaningful career that goes beyond profit margins, consider serving the community you live in. Public service offers a rewarding sense of purpose and can be financially beneficial as well. We provide exceptional value through highly desirable retirement plans, extremely affordable benefits, and generous time off. Electrician Entry 6 months Base Annual Salary $97,760 $105,602 Pension Contributions 19,669 21,247 Health Insurance 19,344 19,344 Social Security 6,061 6,547 Individual Account Program Contribution 5,866 6,336 Medicare 1,418 1,531 TriMet Transit Tax 800 865 Oregon Paid Family Leave 391 422 Total City-paid wages and benefits $151,309 $161,894 **This does not include premiums or overtime

Paid Leave Highlights

• 11 paid holidays
• Start at 112 hours of vacation accrued annually, this translates to 2 weeks of PTO
  • Scales based on years of service
  • Employees may accrue and carryover two times their annual accrual

Accrue 1 hour of sick leave per 10 hours workedJury Duty, Military, Bereavement and many more .About the Positions:
Electrician (Parks) : Portland Parks and Recreation performs electrical maintenance, installation and repairs on parks, golf courses, ballfields lightning, community centers, swimming pools, tourist attractions and visitor centers such as Pittock Mansion and Pioneer Courthouse Square, as well as other park bureau facilities throughout the city. The type of electrical work would include a wide range of commercial and industrial electrical applications. This position will also include work involving motor, HVAC, and lighting controls as well fire and alarm maintenance and installation.
This is General Journeyman Electrician position. This position operates a variety of tools and equipment including aerial lifts and crane trucks. Parks Electricians regularly work alone and are involved in planning and organizing assigned job tasks including coordinating work activities with other crafts when needed. At times there will be a need to provide an immediate to situations such unexpected shutdown of electrical equipment and unsafe conditions are posed a risk to the public. This is an essential role, requiring the employee to report to work regardless of weather conditions or city office closures.

SSL - Locates/Logistics Electrician (PBOT): This Electrician position is in the Signals & Street Lighting (SSL) Locate section of the Traffic Systems and Operations Group. The main duties of this Journeyman electrician position will be to locate underground facilities for traffic signals, street lighting systems, fiber, and interconnect throughout the City. Job duties include connecting test equipment to live low/high voltage circuits, daily computer and field verification of existing underground infrastructure using locating equipment while working in traffic, working alongside moving traffic, and working in inclement weather conditions to meet daily deadlines. This is an essential role, requiring the employee to report to work regardless of weather conditions or city office closures.

SSL - Electrician (PBOT) : The Electrician position in the Signals & Street Lighting (SSL) section of PBOT's Traffic Systems and Operations team involves maintaining and repairing the city's extensive traffic systems, including over 1,100 traffic signals, 55,000+ streetlights, 100 rectangular rapid flash beacons, 170 school beacons, and various communication components. The role includes building, troubleshooting, and repairing traffic signal and street lighting systems, setting poles, installing conduits, pulling wire, and working over and alongside moving traffic while ensuring safety through traffic control and flagging. The position requires working in all weather conditions, including inclement weather, and using hand tools for tasks like digging when necessary. This is an essential role, requiring the employee to report to work regardless of weather conditions or city office closures.

Fleet and Facilities: This position is responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of electrical systems within a variety of buildings and structures, such as offices, schools, public spaces, and other municipal facilities. They work with wiring, lighting, power distribution systems, and electrical controls to ensure that all systems are safe, functional, and compliant with local and national electrical codes. Their tasks can include troubleshooting electrical issues, performing routine inspections, upgrading outdated systems, and ensuring energy efficiency. Facilities electricians play a crucial role in ensuring that essential public services and spaces remain operational and safe for employees and the community.

BES: This position provides essential support to the E&I program by addressing electrical and automation issues for equipment and systems involved in the treatment and conveyance of wastewater and stormwater at the Columbia Boulevard and Tryon Creek Wastewater Treatment Plants, the Combined Sewer Overflow system, and 98 pump stations citywide. Under the direction of the E&I Manager, this role involves installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining electrical and automation systems, responding to system failures and emergencies, ensuring safety and proper equipment operation, conducting diagnostic tests on systems like programmable logic controllers (PLCs), maintaining records and equipment supplies, and organizing work assignments. This is an essential role, requiring the employee to report to work regardless of weather conditions or city office closures.

About the Bureaus:
Parks:
Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) is committed to the overall Citywide vision that race will have no detrimental effect on people of color, refugee, and immigrant communities in accessing our parks and natural areas, or from the benefit of our services. We recognize, understand, and encourage celebration of the differences that surround us. Diversity and equity are vital to PP&R’s ideals and values. The City of Portland, Oregon is a growing and diverse city of 650,000 residents, nearly 20% of whom speak languages other than English at home. PP&R values a diverse workforce and seeks ways to promote equity and inclusion within the organization and with the public. PP&R encourages applications from candidates with knowledge, ability and experience working with a broad range of individuals and communities with diverse racial, ethnic, abilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. Although not required, PP&R encourages candidates that can fluently speak another language to include that information in their application materials. Multilingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

PBOT:
The Portland Bureau of Transportation is a community partner in shaping a livable city. We plan, build, manage, and maintain an effective and safe transportation system that provides people and businesses access and mobility. We keep Portland moving. For more information about the Portland Bureau of Transportation, please visit www.portlandoregon.gov/pbot . The Portland Bureau of Transportation embraces diversity, models inclusivity, and promotes equity through its service delivery, internal operations, organizational culture, and in its work with partners and the community.

Fleet and Facilities:
The Bureau of Fleet & Facilities manages over 1.5 million square feet of City-owned facility assets valued at approximately $900 million, including the City’s highest-profile civic facilities. The organization provides facility operations and maintenance, capital project development and management, space planning and management, and property management and leasing services for City bureaus. The organization is also responsible for long-range capital and real estate planning.

BES:
At BES, we value our customers and partners; Portlanders’ sense of connection to their waterways; conscientious stewardship of our watersheds, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, and financial resources; a diverse, collaborative, healthy, and engaged workforce; leadership among our employees and in our city and community; equity in our workplace, business practices, and service delivery; clear communication and transparency; innovative, sustainable, and resilient solutions.
BES is seeking talented individuals from diverse racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds with knowledge, ability, and experience working with a broad range of individuals and communities; and that desire to work collaboratively and creatively to broaden the variety of innovative ways to partner with and serve all Portland communities. To learn more about the work we do at BES, click on the link: www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/
Our 10-Year Strategic Plan can be found here: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/75720

Have a question?
Contact Information:
TroyLynn Craft
Senior Recruiter
troylynn.craft@portlandoregon.gov

To Qualify

The following minimum qualifications are required for this position: Experience interpreting and applying the National Electrical Code (NEC).Experience performing electrical repair, modification and installation including wiring motors, various types of lighting control, controllers and troubleshooting for voltages from 24VDC up to 480 VAC. ( Experience from 480VAC up to 5KV is not required but should be noted in your resume )Experience working collaboratively and effectively with coworkers in a diverse organization.Ability to learn and use safe work practices, maintain daily activity reports, perform layout, and sketch design for electrical installations, and repairs. Applicants must also possess:

• A valid state driver's license and an acceptable driving record
• An Oregon General Journeyman Electrician's license or a Limited Manufacturing Plant Journeyman's license, or a General Supervising or Limited Supervising Electricians License, or a Manufacturing Plant license at the time of hire.

Preferred Qualifications Bureau of Environmental Services:

• Experience working with (installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining) power distribution and protective relaying equipment up to 15KV, in an industrial setting.
• Experience working with (installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining) motor controllers - full voltage, reduced voltage, variable speed - and motor protective equipment up to 5KV, in an industrial setting.

Preferred Qualifications Fleet and Facilities:

• Experience in the installation, maintenance, and repair of electrical systems associated with HVAC equipment, boilers, chillers, and refrigeration systems .

The Recruitment Process

STEP 1: Apply online between September 30 - until filled or December 30, 2024

• Required Application Materials: Resume
• Answer to the Supplemental Questions (click on the Questions tab to preview the questions)

Optional Application Materials:

• If you would like to request Veteran's Preference, please submit your Veteran documents (ex, DD214-Member 4, VA Benefit Letter, etc.) by the closing date of the recruitment.

Application Tips:

• If you apply and are notified you meet minimum qualifications/placed on the eligible list, please do not reapply. Any applications received after being placed on the eligible list will not be reviewed and will be rejected as a duplicate application.
• If you apply and are notified you do not meet qualifications and the recruitment is still open, you may reapply and update your materials.
• Your responses to the supplemental questions should include details describing your education, training and/or experience, and where obtained, which clearly reflects your qualifications for each of the numbered items in the "To Qualify" section of this announcement.
• Your résumé should support the details described in your responses to the supplemental questions.
• Do not attach any additional documents.
• Please note, all completed applications for this position must be submitted no later than on the closing date and time of this recruitment.
• You may use AI tools to assist with your job application, but please be sure to personalize your responses to supplemental questions. Avoid copying and pasting. We encourage using AI to generate ideas and then tailor them to reflect your own experiences and skills.
• All applications must be submitted via the City's online application process.
• E-mailed and/or faxed applications will not be accepted.

Step 2: Minimum Qualification Evaluation: Week of November 11, 2024, and every 3 weeks thereafter.

• An evaluation of each applicant's training and paid and unpaid experience, as demonstrated in their resume and supplemental questions, weighted 100%.
• Your résumé and responses to the supplemental questions will be the basis for our evaluation of your qualifications for this position. Incomplete or inappropriate information may result in disqualification.
• You have 14 days from the notice of the minimum qualification evaluation results to let us know if you would like to review and discuss your evaluation result. Please read the City of Portland Administrative Rule 3.01 for complete information.
• Additional evaluation may be required prior to establishment of the eligible list and/or final selection.

Step 3: Establishment of Eligible List: Week of November 18, 2024, and every 3 weeks thereafter.

• Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications will be placed on the equally ranked eligible list.

Step 4: Selection (Interview): As Needed

• Hiring bureau will review and select candidates for an interview.

Step 5: Offer of Employment

Step 6: Start Date:

• A start date will be determined after all conditions of employment have been met.

*Timeline is approximate and subject to change.

Additional Information

Click here for additional information regarding the following:

• City of Portland Core Values
• Recruitment Process - Work Status
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Veteran Preference
• ADA, Pregnancy, and Religious Accommodations

An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

A Career with the City of Portland offers many Employee Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to

• Health Care (Medical, Vision and Dental)
• Carrot Fertility
• Wellness Benefits
• Life Insurance
• Long-term disability coverage to eligible employees and their families.
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Retirement
• Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), includingcontributions to the PERS IAP plan paid by employer
• Family Medical Leave
• City Paid Parental Leave

AND SO MANY MORE!

Benefits may vary depending on bargaining unit and employment status. Click here to review the many different benefits the City of Portland offers .

Closing Date/Time: 12/30/2024 11:59 PM Pacific

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