High Voltage Technician
Job Summary
The High Voltage Technician III provides onsite and remote technical direction to site personnel and customers at wind and solar plants. This role involves troubleshooting electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear while leading field service teams. The position requires strong safety adherence, technical expertise, and the ability to mentor junior technicians.
Responsibilities
- Provide onsite and remote technical direction
- Troubleshoot transformers, switchgear, and control systems
- Prepare technical reports and job planning documents
- Lead and mentor field service teams
- Maintain high safety standards at customer sites
Required Skills
- High Voltage technical expertise
- Schematic reading and interpretation
- Field service leadership
- Testing and maintenance of substation equipment
- Advanced Microsoft Office and SmartSheets proficiency
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.
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.
- Flexibility required.
- Advanced computer skills with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, and SmartSheets.
- Basic Workplace First Aid