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CPC Technologist Apprentice

Location: Kelowna, BC, CA

Job Status: Full-Time Regular

Salary: $38.74 Hourly

Workplace Flexibility: No 

Job Details

• Enroll in a four-year electrician apprenticeship program and become a journeyman electrician.
• Conduct emergent, investigative, and scheduled tests on generation, transmission, and electrical distribution system electrical apparatus and equipment, cables, metering, telecommunications, and protective relaying facilities by coordinating line and equipment clearances.
• Carry out specialized tests required to analyze and assess inherent faults or conditions, including power quality and radio or television frequency interference.
• Compile and record test data on telecommunications, relay characteristic tests, and other associated electrical equipment.
• Install, test, and commission a wide range of generation, substation, and terminal station communication and protective schemes.
• Assess and organize those conditions that must be dealt with in the installation and maintenance of telecontrol equipment such as two-way radios, repeater sites, microwave radio, power line carrier, supervisory control, telemetering equipment, telecontrol standby power equipment, and security systems.
• Read, interpret, and troubleshoot complex protective relaying schemes and determine any corrective actions needed to solve problems.
• As required, undertake cost estimates, basic designs, job planning, scheduling, work documentation, and reports.
• Liaise with other internal or external parties to provide technical expertise as required.
• Be willing and able to provide technical training in areas covered by these Duties & Responsibilities to others in the workforce, including employees in lesser-paid classifications.
• Be subject to standby and callouts, and required to establish residence as per the Company’s Standby Policy.
• Perform duties normally carried out by employees in lesser-paid classifications.

Certificates & Licenses

• Diploma in Electrical, Electronics, or Instrumentation Technology.
• Class 5 Driver’s License.

Standby/On-Call requirements: 

• This role has standby/on-call requirements based on operational needs.

Residency requirements:

• The successful candidate must adhere to the residency requirements of this position.

Overtime requirements: 

• This role has overtime requirements based on operational needs.

Travel/Out of town work requirements: 

• This role has out-of-town work requirements based on operational needs.