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High Voltage Electrician I

Ames, IA, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing high-voltage electrical distribution systems (5kV to 15kV) including transformers, generators, switchgear, and control systems for a university campus.

Role type

Journeyman High Voltage Electrician

Builds

Reliable campus utility infrastructure (power distribution, energy production facilities)

Domain

Utilities / Electrical Engineering / Campus Infrastructure

Deliverable

physical/clinical work

Required skills

High voltage electrical theory, reading schematics, operating high voltage testing equipment (phase meters, hi-potential testers, meggers), splicing/terminating medium voltage cables, working in confined spaces and underground systems, safety protocol execution

Preferred skills

State of Iowa Electrical license, Journeyman lineman experience, experience with solid state control systems and capacitor banks

Technologies

Switchgear, circuit breakers, relays, substation gear, solid state meters, protection and monitoring systems

Responsibilities

Install, maintain, troubleshoot, calibrate, and replace high voltage electric distribution systems and related equipment; Energize and operate high voltage electrical distribution equipment; Generate basic switching procedures to safely isolate equipment; Test power systems utilizing high voltage diagnostic equipment; Assist in directing the work of apprentices

Seniority

Journeyman, hands-on IC

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