Employment Percentage
-85.85858586
SOC ID
49-2095
SOC Title
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
ONET ID
49-2095.00
ONET Concat ID
49209500
Median Salary
115960
Ed Level High School
8.18
Ed Level Certificate
50.330002
Ed Level Some College
11.19
Ed Level Associates
27.91
Ed Level Bachelors
2.39
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a certificate
Career Description
Inspect, test, repair, or maintain electrical equipment in generating stations, substations, and in-service relays.
Core Tasks
- Inspect and test equipment and circuits to identify malfunctions or defects, using wiring diagrams and testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, or ammeters.
- Consult manuals, schematics, wiring diagrams, and engineering personnel to troubleshoot and solve equipment problems and to determine optimum equipment functioning.
- Prepare and maintain records detailing tests, repairs, and maintenance.
- Analyze test data to diagnose malfunctions, to determine performance characteristics of systems, or to evaluate effects of system modifications.
- Notify facility personnel of equipment shutdowns.
- Open and close switches to isolate defective relays, performing adjustments or repairs.
- Repair, replace, and clean equipment and components such as circuit breakers, brushes, and commutators.
- Run signal quality and connectivity tests for individual cables, and record results.
- Maintain inventories of spare parts for all equipment, requisitioning parts as necessary.
Start Annual Earnings
77147.2
Top Annual Earnings
135907.2
EMSI Career Title Slug
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