Electrician
Description
About Us
Cooper Norcross Health, formerly Cooper University Health Care, is a leading academic health system affiliated with Cooper Norcross Medical School of Rowan University. Headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, Cooper Norcross Health has revenues of more than $3 billion and an A+ credit rating from both S&P and Fitch Ratings.
Cooper Norcross Health has nearly 14,000 team members, including more than 2,200 nurses, more than 1,200 employed physicians representing 95 specialties and subspecialties, and more than 700 advanced practice providers.
The health system operates MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper as well as four hospitals – its 663-bed flagship Cooper Norcross University Hospital in Camden, its 229-bed Cooper Norcross University Hospital Cape Regional in Cape May Court House, Children’s Hospital at Cooper Norcross Health in Camden, and The Recovery Village Cherry Hill at Cooper, a substance abuse rehabilitation and inpatient treatment facility, in partnership with American Recovery Services.
Cooper Norcross University Hospital in Camden is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in South Jersey and the busiest in the region. The hospital has been recognized as a top-performing regional hospital by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals annual survey for eight years.
More than 2.54 million patients visit Cooper Norcross Health facilities annually. Its ambulatory network encompasses three outpatient surgery centers, seven urgent care centers, a wound care center, and more than 130 physician, physical therapy, and radiology offices extending from the Delaware River to the New Jersey shore.
Cooper Norcross Health, a not-for-profit health system, was named one of America’s Best Large Employers for 2026 by Forbes, ranking among the top 200 in the nation. Visit CooperHealth.org to learn more.
Short Description
Install, maintain, and repair electrical appliances, systems, facilities, and related electrical controls and devices. Helps maintain buildings, grounds, equipment, and utilities and their use; attends maintenance and engineering activities with other departments; staff meetings, safety, and other meetings, as directed by the Director of Maintenance and Plant Operations.
Duties:
- Repairs, installs, replaces, and tests electrical circuits, equipment, and appliances using hand tools and testing instruments to supply electrical power for lighting and equipment operation in the hospital.
- Inspects and tests electrical lighting, signal, communication, and power circuits and equipment
- Isolates defects in wiring, switches, motors, and other electrical equipment using testing instruments such as ammeter, ohmmeter, voltmeter, or testing lamp.
- Examines and tests such elements of systems as distribution panels, controls, circuit fixtures, and motors to locate apparent faults such as blown fuses, short circuits, broken wires, loose connections, and worn motors.
- Replaces faulty switches, sockets, plugs, fuses, insulators, and other simple elements of electrical systems, fixtures, and appliances.
- Renews circuits either by isolating and cutting out defective wiring and replacing it with new wiring or by splicing ends of broken wires.
- Dismantles electrical machinery with hand tools and unsolder or unscrew wiring connections.
- Replaces such defective mechanical parts as gears, bushings, and bearings and such related electrical parts as armatures, commentators, and transformers, assembling components according to diagrams.
- Checks clearance of moving parts with precision gauges.
- Restores electrical connections to complete circuits.
- Install new wiring and electrical machinery.
- Studies blueprints and diagrams to ascertain the layout, location, and specifications of items to be installed.
- Estimates quantities of materials needed.
- Cuts and shapes conduit with hand tools and fastens it in place with brackets.
- Fasten fixtures, switches, and outlet boxes in positions.
- Runs wire through conduit and makes connections to complete circuits.
- Assembles, installs, and connects components of switchboards and distribution panels and connects them to units controlled.
- Mounts motors, transformers, lighting fixtures, or other equipment into position and completes circuits according to diagram specifications.
- May perform related work, such as recording time and materials expended on each work order; operating lathe, grinding, and polishing machines on making, finishing, and rebuilding parts of equipment; and performing minor carpentry, plastering, and painting in connection with repair work.
- Performs various duties in and around buildings and grounds of the hospital complex in completing their tasks.
- Performs additional duties requested by the Supervisor/Director
Experience Required
5 years electrician experience.
Education Requirements
High School Diploma or Equivalent required.