Job Description

Position: Electrician Specialist

Department: Physical Plant

Hourly Rate: $21.05Hourly

Job Type: Classified,Full-time

Location: Ruston, LA

Closing Date: October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM CT

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Louisiana Tech University is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce by ensuring all our students, faculty, and staff work in an environment of openness and acceptance. We strive to foster a culture where people of all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives can feel secure and welcome.

Louisiana Tech offers outstanding perks and benefits to eligible employees that include a variety of health insurance plans and retirement options, paid time off for vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, substantially reduced-rate tuition for employees and their dependents, discounted memberships at the university’s sports and wellness center, professional development training, and promotional opportunities. In addition, market adjustment salary increases are awarded annually (pending funding availability) for eligible classified employees.

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SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:

Civil Service test score is not required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Two years of the required experience for the following minimum qualifications must have been on-the-job experience:

Three years of experience or training in the electrical trade.

FUNCTION OF WORK:
To perform technical and highly skilled electrical maintenance, repairs and installations on utility plant electrical systems, high voltage transmission systems, traffic signals, electrically operated bridge systems and marine electrical systems in accordance with the National Electrical Code.

LEVEL OF WORK:
Advanced

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
General from an Electrician Specialist Leader, Electrician Specialist Foreman or other maintenance supervisory personnel.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
Functional over Electricians and may exercise functional over Trades Helpers.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from Electrician Specialist Foreman by lack of full supervisory duties.

Differs from Electrician in that work is of a more complex nature (work on high voltage transformers, overhead underground and marine distribution lines and cables and the installation and maintenance of traffic signals.

Differs from Electrician Specialist Leader by lack of responsibility for overseeing work of other journeyman and advanced journeyman Electricians.

EXAMPLES OF WORK:
EXAMPLES BELOW ARE A BRIEF SAMPLE OF COMMON DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JOB TITLE. NOT ALL POSSIBLE TASKS ARE INCLUDED.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE ELECTRICIAN SPECIALIST

Performs entire electrical maintenance on movable and stationary bridges.

Installs electrical equipment such as motors, starters, relays, panel boxes, switches, and coils for single and three phase systems.

Installs different types of voltage transformers and may be required to adjust voltage of agency owned transformers.

Troubleshoots shorts and open circuits in wiring, motors and emergency generators.

Maintains and repairs bridge hydraulic systems such as pumps, cylinders, hoses, filters, control valves.

Maintains and repairs grid couplings, locks, wedges, and barriers on movable bridges.

Performs maintenance to electrical distribution system over 600 volts at the district headquarters compound.

DISTRIBUTION AND POWER PLANT SYSTEMS ELECTRICIAN SPECIALIST

Performs a majority of duties on electrical systems/equipment at and above 660 volts:

Installs high voltage transformers.

Makes voltage adjustments on transformers.

Makes splices and insulates high voltage underground and overhead cables of 1,400 volts and above.

Locates and corrects problems on high and low voltage lines by using insulation meggers, oscillators or tone detectors to locate faults in underground cables.

Uses phasing sticks on phase rotation meters to check out rotation of cables before switching into the circuits.

Troubleshoots, repairs, and installs electrical meters, starters, and related switch gear and controls.

Installs, tests, repairs, and maintains generators, trans formers, converters, regulators, switches, circuit breakers, recording instruments, control systems and other circuit systems.

Dismantles, repairs and assembles generators, synchronous motors, motor generators, and rotary converters. Installs, alters, and replaces generation and distribution equipment in power plants, substations, transformer vaults, or distribution centers. Cleans, adjusts and repairs electrical equipment such as air and oil circuit breakers and remotely controlled telemetering equipment.

Draws, interprets, updates and files electrical blueprints.

Provides guidance to private contractors on circuitry layout of building and facilities.

Directs and trains helpers and may supervise other electricians or maintenance personnel on a functional basis.
Performs advanced Journeyman level work in the installation and
maintenance of marine electrical systems and related equipment.

Installs and repairs marine distribution cables.

Dismantles, repairs and assemble generators, synchronous motors, and marine motor generators and may overhaul marine generators on marine vessel electrical power plant systems.

Installs, tests, repairs, and maintains marine vessel generators, transformers, converters, regulators, switches, circuit breakers, recording instruments, control systems and other circuit systems.

Installs and repairs rigid electrical conduits, pulls in conductors, assembles buss bars, phases out and converts conductors, splices cables and seals connectors.

Troubleshoots distribution circuits and generating and controlling equipment to locate and correct the causes of outages and improper operation.

Repairs electrical auxiliary equipment in boosters and engine rooms, filtering and changing transformers oil, and checking conditions of insulators, oil circuit breakers and related equipment.

Checks and trues commutators and slip rings of rotary equipment while turning in their bearings, using dressing stones, under cutters and grinders.

Uses standard electrical tools and equipment such as volt meters, ammeters, watt meters, places and adjust mechanical contacts and trippers and time-delay intervals of circuit breakers and relays using feeler gauges, dressings tools, and timing devices.

Installs, alters, maintains, and repairs electrical systems such as electrical motors for generator pumps, lighting systems, and other electrical fixtures and equipment.

Performs repairs, maintenance and alteration to electrical systems of electrical movable bridges repairing limit switches, plunger switches, electrical drive motors, transformers, conduits hydraulic pumps motors and troubleshoots all electrical systems.

SIGNAL LIGHT ELECTRICIAN SPECIALIST

Installs, alters, maintains and repairs, traffic signals, controllers, and traffic loops.

Uses volt, amp and watt meters to troubleshoot and repair electrical problems.

Repairs overhead lights at rest areas, weigh stations and highway units.

Installs new traffic signal lights and flashing beacons.

Erects new poles and transfers interconnect and other cables, spans and controllers to new poles.

Erects free standing electronic traffic controllers at road intersections and fabricates signal lights.

Inspects signal cables and replaces signal heads.

To view the Civil Service Job Spec, click on the following link:

https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=155150

APPLICANTS MUST APPLY BY THE ANNOUNCEMENT DEADLINE.

*The State of Louisiana only accepts online applications. Paper applications will not be accepted. Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Any information about a job on your resume that was not included in the work history section of the online application cannot be used to evaluate your qualifications for the posted vacancy. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Louisiana Tech University, Office of Human Resources

P.O. Box 3173

Ruston, LA 71272

Phone: 318-257-2235

Fax: 318-257-2482

Louisiana Tech University is an AA/ADA/EEO employer. Louisiana Tech recruits, selects, employs and promotes without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran status, or genetic information in its admission and recruitment of students, educational programs, and activities, or employment policies.

Louisiana Tech may require a criminal background check to be conducted on candidate(s) selected for hire and employment is contingent upon the institutions verification of credentials

Please Note: Applications must be completed by 11:59 p.m. on the Job Closing Date to ensure consideration.

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