Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)

Amentum is a global leader in designing, engineering, and modernizing critical systems and programs of national importance across defense, security, intelligence, energy, and the environment. Driven by our commitment to creating a secure, sustainable future, we innovate as a collaborative team of passionate professionals dedicated to making a meaningful impa...

Responsibilities or duties

Responsible for maintaining a safe workplace and ensuring that safety is the highest priority in the workplace.

Comply with all Environmental Health & Safety and Quality Assurance requirements and goals. Provide information and materials to these divisions as necessary to ensure adequate and legal documentation.

Locate and determine causes of trouble in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems using test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.

Disassemble defective units and repair or replace parts including locks, gears, cables, and faulty safety devices.

Lubricate bearings and other parts to minimize friction.

Install or repair transformers, switchboards, controllers, circuit breakers, motors, heating units, conduit systems, or other transmission equipment. Works from blueprints, drawings, layouts, or other specifications to locate and diagnose trouble in the equipment

Perform preventative maintenance in accordance with published schedules, operating procedures, and equipment warranties. Provide input to upgrade content and frequency of preventative maintenance tasks.

Conducts tests of equipment using voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters, continuity testers, feeler gauges, frequency counters and other test equipment considered tools of the trade.

Perform additional duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Experience needed

Minimum Acceptable Experience Level:

Experience must include familiarity with working sketches, engineering drawings, wiring diagrams and manufacturers’ operations and maintenance manuals.

Knowledge of applicable European and/or US Electrical Codes and acceptable trade practices also.

Familiar with annual maintenance requirements of electrical and mechanical systems.

• Responsible for maintaining a safe workplace and ensuring that safety is the highest priority in the workplace.
• Comply with all Environmental Health & Safety and Quality Assurance requirements and goals. Provide information and materials to these divisions as necessary to ensure adequate and legal documentation.
• Locate and determine causes of trouble in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems using test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
• Disassemble defective units and repair or replace parts including locks, gears, cables, and faulty safety devices.
• Lubricate bearings and other parts to minimize friction.
• Install or repair transformers, switchboards, controllers, circuit breakers, motors, heating units, conduit systems, or other transmission equipment. Works from blueprints, drawings, layouts, or other specifications to locate and diagnose trouble in the equipment
• Perform preventative maintenance in accordance with published schedules, operating procedures, and equipment warranties. Provide input to upgrade content and frequency of preventative maintenance tasks.
• Conducts tests of equipment using voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters, continuity testers, feeler gauges, frequency counters and other test equipment considered tools of the trade.
• Perform additional duties and projects as assigned.

• Familiarity with working sketches, engineering drawings, wiring diagrams and manufacturers’ operations and maintenance manuals.
• Knowledge of applicable European and/or US Electrical Codes and acceptable trade practices.
• Familiar with annual maintenance requirements of electrical and mechanical systems.
• Proficiency with test lamps, ammeters, voltmeters, ohmmeters, continuity testers, feeler gauges, frequency counters and other test equipment.

• BA/BSc/HND