Field Service Technician

Field Service Technician Job Highlights

Company Profile

IES Infrastructure (a company of IES Holdings) provides industrial maintenance and repair services for alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) electric motors and generators, as well as power generating and distribution equipment.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Field Service Technician who will repair various kinds of electro-mechanical equipment in the field.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants may be required a High School Diploma or GED

Work Experience

• Possess a minimum of 5 years of experience in rotating apparatus field repair (AC or DC electric motors, pumps, blowers, etc.)
• Some experience in an electric motor/job shop environment would be greatly beneficial.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures; report all unsafe activity.
• Disassemble, inspect and reassemble various types of rotating equipment, such as pumps, centrifugal, submersible, vertical, turbine, gear reducers, electric motors, and blowers.
• Drive and operate a utility body service crane truck.
• Fill out service reports.
• Follow all company’s filed procedures and protocols
• Mechanical and electrical troubleshooting of control and pumping systems.
• Operate lifting equipment such as forklifts, hoists, and cranes.
• Operate vehicles in a safe manner and use field automation systems
• Perform on-site turn-key services on our customer sites.
• Provide field service for removal and installation of pumps and electric motors.
• Set tolerances for bearing fit and clearances, motor connections, and testing.
• Will perform vibration analysis, laser alignment, and on-site balancing.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• 50% travel
• Candidate must be available for on-call and overtime work
• Local only within 150 miles
• Rarely overnight stay
• Skills required include troubleshooting problems, electrical theory, mechanical theory, and understanding of vibration analysis and alignment
• Valid DL (CDL preferred but not required)

Work Environment

• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; and risk of electrical shock.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to walk; reach with hands and arms and climb or balance.
• Must frequently lift or move up to 300 pounds with mechanical assistant.
• Occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• Regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle or feel.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Benefits/Perks

• Ability to perform electrical tests for continuity
• Connecting and integrating 3-phase motors
• Demonstrate ability to accurately read and interpret a tape measure (test will be required)
• Electrical integration experience with transformers
• Experience with NEC (National Electric Code), understands wire size, conduit runs, and electrical load.
• Proficient reading of blueprints, wiring diagrams, and schematics
• Pulling wire, wire circuits, 4-way switches
• Required to follow written and verbal work instructions
• Works with 208 and 480 electrical panels

Employer’s Statement

IES Infrastructure Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.