Job Title: LOGCAP - Master Electrician - Iraq

LOGCAP - Master Electrician - Iraq

Who We Are - Louis Berger Services (LBS)

We are Louis Berger Services (LBS) and we specialize in operational excellence for defense mission and public critical infrastructure and facilities, globally. We offer turnkey operation and management solutions to reduce risk and life-cycle costs. As people-focused, safety-minded collaborators we are committed to unlocking the potential held by a workforce that is as diverse as the communities we serve. Join us and be involved in projects in our growing organization that partners with national, state, and local government agencies, multilateral institutions and commercial industry clients.

At the core of everything we do are our values: safety, ethics, respect, value, inclusion, community and excellence. These values are instilled into all of our relationships, projects, programs, and activities enabling us to provide solutions that have a positive impact on society.

Louis Berger Services, member of WSP USA, is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

This Opportunity

LBS is seeking a full-time Master Electrician in Iraq in support of LOGCAP V. Join our team and grow with us as we provide best-in-class services that help clients solve their most complex challenges.

Your Impact

• Serve under the direction of the Site/and or Power Plant Manager to operate and maintain diesel gensets and electrical power plant equipment and train other electricians/operators.
• Works with electrical teams or line crews to perform routine installation maintenance, and repairs on electric power control equipment, distribution lines, or electric-generating equipment. In communication with the Site/and or Power Plant Manager acts as the plant electrician and/or team lead.
• Work on power cables, transformers, insulators, and control equipment such as switches, circuit breakers, and panels. This includes collecting transformer oil samples that are tested for contamination as well as cleaning up contaminated sites.
• Assemble, repair, modify, replace, and install electrical quick change assemblies components such as electrical cables and wiring harnesses associated with engine and transmission components and test the completed products.
• Use a variety of test equipment such as voltmeters, ohmmeters, multimeters, growlers, meggers, and specialized test sets to test for shorts, continuity, and defective wiring and connections.
• Use standard hand tools and micrometers to check for extensive wear of bushings, bearings, and gears. Assist on assignments involving equipment and components of greater complexity than those described above by performing discrete tasks such as routine disassembling, repairing, and reassembling the simpler components and then bench testing them.
• Disassemble, repair, modify, assemble, and test a variety of electrical equipment such as AC/DC motors (single, split, and three-phase), generators, starters, voltage regulators, servo mechanisms, alternators, transformers, actuators, power control panels, control sticks, instrument panels, or inverters.
• Check fields, armatures, wiring, commutators, and other electrical parts for continuity, voltage drop, ground shorts, opens, and overheating.
• Check and repair gears and clutches when these and other similar mechanical items are part of the accessory being serviced or repaired.
• Check shafts for clearance, balance, and warpage; they check the condition of bearings, noise filter capacitors, switches, rectifiers, variable resistors, diodes, relays, and governors according to work order requirements.
• Repair or replace items such as brushes, seals, bearings, gears, leads, armatures, and control parts. They recondition surfaces, modify if specified, and restore the entire unit to serviceable condition.
• Use standard hand tools and a variety of test equipment such as voltmeters, ohmmeters, growlers, meggers, resistance bridges, and analyzers to test electrical characteristics. They use feeler, depth, tension, and spring gauges; micrometers; and dial indicators to measure clearances, tolerances, and dimensional.
• Use and maintain various hand and power tools of the trade.
• As directed by the Site Manager

Required Qualifications

• Must have computer skills and be able to operate a variety of computer programs.
• Must be able to speak, read and write English fluently.
• Must maintain a valid driver's license from their home country with validity for 12 months from the on-site employment date.
• Must maintain a valid passport from their home country with validity for 12 months from the on-site employment date.
• Must satisfy and maintain CENTCOM MOD-17 medical requirements.
• Must be able to gain and maintain authorized entry onto US military installations.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Additional Required Qualifications

• Master Electrician USN/OCN must be licensed, if from the UK, it must be JIB4 licensed.
• Experience in installing and maintaining equipment and electrical systems.
• Experience in working on a team and training others.
• Familiarity with electrical components and knowledge of wiring (where and how controls are installed and operated).
• Experience working in international work environments in an expatriate or US military status.
• Proactive nature and strong interpersonal skills in collaborating, communicating, and working with (1) Other managers and staff (including home Office management team), (2) Local and International subcontractors; (3) Army Corps of Engineers military representatives; and (4) Local officials as required.
• Assemble, repair, modify, replace, and install electrical quick change assemblies' components such as electrical cables and wiring harnesses associated with engine and transmission components and test the completed products.
• Disassemble, repair, modify, assemble, and test a variety of electrical equipment such as AC/DC motors (single, split, and three-phase), generators, starters, voltage regulators, servo-mechanisms, alternators, transformers, actuators, power control panels, control sticks, instrument panels, or inverters.

Role Characteristics

• Great interpersonal skills.
• Customer service oriented.
• Team player.
• Ability to multi-task.

Additional Requirements Louis Berger Services, member of WSP USA, is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. Additional Details Required Education: High School Diploma / GED Minimum Years Experience: 5 years Travel Required: 25% Job Status: Regular Employee Type: Full Primary Location: IRAQ - AL ASAD AIR BASE APO AE All locations: Iraq