Apprentice Electrician
Salary
$53,164.80 – $100,422.40 Annually
Location
Metro Plant – 2400 Childs Rd. St. Paul MN 55106, MN
Job Type
Temporary Long Term (up to 2 years)
Job Number
2025-00032
Division
Environmental Services
Department
Maintenance Administration
Opening Date
04/10/2025
Closing Date
4/16/2025 11:59 PM Central
DESCRIPTION
BENEFITS
QUESTIONS
WHO WE ARE
We are the Metropolitan Council, the regionalernment for the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area. We plan the area’s future 30 years in advance and provide regional transportation, wastewater, and housing services. Our has more information about us.
We aremitted to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects ourmunities.
The Metropolitan Council’s Environmental Services (MCES) Division has three (3) vacancies for apprentice electricians (long-term temporary; up to two years). This position will require travel between various MCES facilities within the Twin Cities metro area.
How would your work contribute to ouranization and the Twin Cities region
Join an award-winning wastewater industry leader in protecting our environment!
Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES) is an operating division of the Metropolitan Council. MCES operates and maintains the wastewater collection and treatment system for the Minneapolis-St. Paul seven-county metropolitan area, which includes approximately 600 miles of regional sanitary sewers and eight regional wastewater treatment plants. MCES treats an average of 250 million gallons of wastewater daily, providing cost-effective service to more than 2.6 million people in 109 customermunities. MCES treatment plants consistently earn state and national awards forpletepliance with their environmental permits. MCES is also nationally renowned for its superior work in monitoring air and water quality and planning for a long-range water supply to meet future demand.
To find out how the Metropolitan Council and the Environmental Services division serve the Twin Cities region, please click on the links for more information: metrocouncil/About-Us/The-Council-Who-We-Are. and metrocouncil/Wastewater-Water.. .
What you would do in this job
•Performs electrical work related to the system process.
•Maintains personnel protection system for fire, hydrogen sulfide, and hydrocarbon alarm systems.
•Performs electrical construction work. Verifies proper operation with collection/plant system processes.
•Troubleshoots and repairs various electrical/electronic equipment, including PLC, VFD, MCC, telemetry, and SCADA systems.
•Performs calibration and verification on various process instrumentation, metering, and recording devices (pressure, level, flow, weight, etc.)
•Checks and maintains emergency service equipment.
•Completes job reports on labor and material.
•Works with maintenance management systems (WAM), process control systems (Cimplicity/Wonderware), and otherputer system software programs.
•Maintains monitoring systems at lift stations, meter sites, river quality monitoring, regulators, and rain gauge sites.
•Diagnoses and repairs integration devices between field devices and processputers.
•Provides welding to support the electrical group.
•Tests, installs, and repairs sacrificial and rectifier-type cathodic protection systems.
•Performs other related duties.
What education and experience are required for this job (minimum qualifications)
Currently registered in a registered indentured apprenticeship electrical program through the State of Minnesota, AND two (2) years of work experience in the electrical field installing conduit, wiring, and electrical equipment inmercial and industrial locations.
License Requirements:
•Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record
What additional skills and experience would be helpful in this job (desired qualifications):
•Completion of a two-year vocational/technical program in construction electricity.
•Ability and or experience working with people from a diverse cultural and or racial background.
What knowledge, skills, and abilities you should have within the first six months on the job:
•Work experience in a wastewater treatment/collection system facility or other industrial setting.
•Knowledge of and experience in all aspects of assembling, installing, maintaining, and testing electrical equipment and wiring systems in an industrial setting.
•Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
•Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers,mon fractions, and decimals. Ability topute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
•Requires the skill to provide basic client services to the public and other agencies within theanization. Requires tact, courtesy, and cooperation in dealings with others w the primary purpose is the exchange of information.
•Ability to work with other traders and crafts as a member of aposite crew.