High Voltage Technician III
Job Summary
The High Voltage Technician III provides technical leadership and maintenance for power infrastructure including transformers, switchgear, and protection relays. The role involves onsite troubleshooting, project planning, and administrative reporting for wind and solar plants. Candidates are expected to maintain high safety standards and mentor junior technicians while supporting field operations.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical direction and leadership onsite
- Troubleshoot power equipment and electrical substations
- Prepare project documentation and technical reports
- Mentor and train junior technicians
- Execute maintenance and site safety protocols
Required Skills
- High Voltage experience
- Ability to read schematics
- Technical troubleshooting and testing
- Leadership and field team management
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and SmartSheets
Job Details
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provide onsite and remote technical direction to site personnel and customers.
- Prepare job planning documents that define the work scope being performed through engineering instructions, drawings, and process instructions.
- Provide leadership to skilled labor performing work on customer sites.
- Troubleshoot and provide routine maintenance checkout for a wide range of equipment such as power transformers, switchgear, protection relays, control systems, and motors.
- Troubleshoot electrical problems in the substations on wind and solar plants.
- Perform administrative functions such as writing technical reports, ordering materials, securing quotations, and preparing job completion reports to customers.
- Exercise good judgment in controlling costs.
- Maintain strong safety mindset at all times.
- Must live within 100 miles of Arlington, Oregon.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- High School Diploma / GED
Desired Characteristics:
- Previous High Voltage experience.
- Familiar with test equipment and testing procedures for transformers, relays, breakers, and underground splices.
- Familiar with switching pad mount transformers and substations.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must be able to read schematics.
- Ability to write and interpret switching orders.
- Required to mentor and train unqualified technicians.
- Proven experience in leading field service team.
- Safety must be top priority.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Willingness to travel and flexibility required.
- Advanced computer skills with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, and SmartSheets.
- Basic Workplace First Aid.