Installation Electrician

**REPORTS TO**: Branch Manager, Operations Manager

**SUMMARY OF POSITION**

**ELECTRICIAN ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Electrical Installations**
- Install, maintain and repair electrical control, wiring, and lighting systems.
- Assemble and install electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools.
- Test electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools.
- Installation of conduit (pipes or tubing) inside designated partitions, walls, or other concealed areas, and pull insulated wires or cables through the conduit to complete circuits between boxes.
- Inspect transformers and circuit breakers and other electrical components.
- Good knowledge of heating and air conditioning systems.
- Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, or other components.
- Inspect electrical systems, equipment, and components to identify hazards, defects, and the need for adjustment or repair, and to ensure compliance with codes
- Test electrical systems and continuity of circuits in electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures, using testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, and oscilloscopes, to ensure compatibility and safety of system
- Install ground leads and connect power cables to equipment, such as motors
- Construct and fabricate parts, using hand tools and specifications.
- Perform physically demanding tasks, such as digging trenches to lay conduit and moving and lifting heavy objects.
- Fasten small metal or plastic boxes to walls to house electrical switches or outlets.

**Electrical Maintenance and Repairs**
- Perform general electrical maintenance.
- Circuit breaker corrective maintenance.
- Troubleshoot electrical issues using appropriate testing devices
- Repair or replace wiring, equipment, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools.
- Diagnose malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and components, using test equipment and hand tools, to locate the cause of a breakdown and correct the problem.
- Maintain electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools.

**Compliance**
- Can perform and issue Certificate of Compliance (CoC) Testing
- Maintain current electrician's license or identification card to meet governmental regulations.

**Team Supervision**
- Lead, direct and train staff members to install, maintain, or repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures.
- Provide assistance during emergencies.
- Ensure installations are completed on time. Ensure work is completed in accordance with the project plan, job schedule and planned timelines.
- Ongoing personal development and on the job training.
- Supervising apprentice electricians.
- Ensure that the team members takes care of and maintains their provided PPE kits.

**Data Installations**
- **Installing Cables**
- Identification of suitable cable routes on site (Planning)
- Accurate measurement of routes. (Limited cable wastage)
- Understand the plan as communicated by Team Leader (Vision)
- Understanding fibre optic cables, and the practises of correctly installing fibre optic cable. (Bend radius & figure 8)
- Cables marked and labelled correctly before they are installed.
- **Network Points**
- Numbering and layout of network points is done logically.
- **Looming and Lacing**
- Basic understanding of the cable markings on the cable and their meaning. Copper & Fibre
- Cable looms are measured and cut accurately before they are installed.
- Lacing of looms on trays and in ceiling boards are done correctly.
- Spacing and tension of straps on looms are correct.
- Exposed cable looms on Wall Mount Cable Trays are correctly laced.
- Correctly lace and loom the Cabinet to the Patch Panel.
- **Skirting and Trunking**
- Correct selection and use of hand tools. Measure and cut with hacksaw. Use of Set Square. Spirit level
- Neatness and cleanliness of finished installation. Filling and touch up where required. Installation wiped clean.
- **Terminations**
- Clear understanding and identification of A & B Spec.
- Termination of Patch Panels are done according to set specifications.
- Accurately terminating to disconnect modules.
- Correct termination of wall outlets. Understanding the implications of incorrect termination practises.
- Cable skin distance, maintaining twists in pairs, cable pair nicks.
- Correct mounting of wall outlets. Use the correct fastening material for the surface you are mounting on.
- Wall Mount Cabinets are mounted securely and level.
- **Testing and Fault Finding**
- Able to do fault-finding, trouble-shooting and repairing of faults.
- Basic tester reading, understanding the display. Identify a fault condition on the tester.
- Able to test installations to Level 1 specifications, basic wire map and length.
- Use of markings on the cable to locate faults.

**Administration**
- **Electrical**
- Design and draw electrical circuitry.
- Plan lay