Job Ref: # 8760323
Date Posted: 9/23/2025
City, State: Ashburn, Virginia
Salary (USD): $46 - $69
Description
The Switchgear Technician serves as a field technician for mission-critical electrical services and maintenance. The role is responsible for monitoring compliance with contractual commitments and providing technical expertise on the installation, service, testing, commissioning, maintenance, and operation of mission-critical data center electrical equipment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review technical specifications with project teams to define field operations scope.
- Interface with service teams to ensure specification compliance.
- Provide job-specific technical support and liaise with factories to resolve site-related issues.
- Perform QA/QC on power distribution equipment.
- Create Critical Power System MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs.
- Conduct preventive maintenance services on contracted gear and other components.
- Install and service all power distribution equipment.
- Troubleshoot distribution and transmission controls.
- Perform function testing of low, medium, and high voltage switchgear, relay panels, transformers, ATS, and circuit breakers.
- Examine relay settings and logic equations to confirm system operation.
- Provide regular status reports to management and direct feedback for problem resolution.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical problems in the field.
- Provide site testing reports and inspection sheets per project specifications.
- Participate in specialized commissioning/testing of systems.
- Conduct site visits as directed and respond to service calls.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- 3–5 years of field repair/customer service experience with UPS, electrical, electro-mechanical, or electronics-related equipment, or equivalent mission-critical product experience.
- Minimum of 5 years experience with field repair/customer service for electrical power distribution equipment, including UPS, switchgear, batteries, monitoring equipment, and generators.
- Strong knowledge of NETA standards, IEEE specifications, and NEMA standards for low and medium voltage switchgear.
- Hands-on experience with installation, disassembly, inspection/repair, reassembly, and testing of low and medium voltage switchgear.
- Excellent technical understanding and application of switchgear, protective relaying, and controls.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account options
- 401(k) Plan (ER contribution 3%)
- Employer-paid Life & Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Time Off accrual (0–2 years: 10 days, 3–5 years: 15 days, 6+ years: 20 days) + 40 hours sick time
- 11 Company Holidays
- Employee Referral Program
Travel: Up to 30% overnight; most travel is daily returning home each night. Company car + gas card provided; all travel expenses covered in full.
Company Description:
A leading provider of data center electrical services, offering blueprinting, construction, commissioning, service, monitoring, and maintenance of complex environments that protect business-critical data for enterprise cloud providers, colocation data centers, and Fortune 500 companies. With over 20 years of experience, the organization ensures operational reliability, compliance, and efficiency for its clients’ critical systems.
A leading provider of data center electrical services, offering blueprinting, construction, commissioning, service, monitoring, and maintenance of complex environments that protect business-critical data for enterprise cloud providers, colocation data centers, and Fortune 500 companies. With over 20 years of experience, the organization ensures operational reliability, compliance, and efficiency for its clients’ critical systems.
Why This Opportunity?
- Work with mission-critical electrical systems in state-of-the-art data center environments.
- Opportunities for technical development and leadership in the field.
- Exposure to complex projects across multiple sites and regions.
- Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and travel support.
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