Job Description

Overview

The Traveling Journeyman Electrician position involves leading and performing electrical installations, alterations, and repairs across multiple long-term data center jobs in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. Candidates must be proficient in troubleshooting electrical systems and adhering to safety protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Reports to assigned job site location on time, as directed.
  • Maintains and properly stores tools, materials, and equipment.
  • Organizes materials and tools to maintain clean and neat work area.
  • Possesses ability to dig trenches, either by use of hand tools or equipment as necessary.
  • Mounts and installs assigned hardware (such as conduit, wires, and strapping) as directed.
  • Accurately identifies colors of wires and conductors.
  • Plans, schedules, and organizes tasks to meet deadlines.
  • Accurately interprets electrical construction drawings, terminates cables, installs, and troubleshoots control wiring from schematics.
  • Completes routine daily inspections of equipment and work areas to verify accurate and timely installations.
  • Completes and documents regular safety inspections, as assigned.
  • Accurately and effectively directs and trains Helpers and Apprentices in proper work practices to meet production requirements.
  • Safely performs assigned tasks with limited supervision.

Requirements

  • High School graduate or equivalency, preferred.
  • Accredited Apprenticeship Program completion or six years on the job electrical experience required.
  • Journeyman License requirement in states, locales, or projects, as required.
  • Ability to lead and perform installations, alterations, additions, and/or repairs of electrical systems.
  • Proficient in troubleshooting and proactively problem-solving electrical systems.
  • Certified to operate platform and boom lifts, or able to obtain certification upon hire.
  • Able to perform work at various heights, up to 90’, from ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, cat walks, roofs, or other designated safe work areas.
  • Able to accurately bend and install all types of conduit.
  • Possesses knowledge of circuit grounding practices, transformer connections, over-current protection, parallel circuits, fuse/circuit breakers, motors, cable trays and their supports.
  • Possesses knowledge of trench safety required during installation of underground conductors.
  • Understands and complies with NEC, state, and local codes.
  • Must be able to wear personal protective equipment when required.

Additional Information

  • May require working in all elements (heat, cold, rain, snow, etc.) depending on job location and/or time of year.
  • Must be able to utilize construction site sanitary facilities (port-o-lets).
  • Must have required hand tools at all times while at work site.
  • Must be able to work scheduled hours as well as overtime, as required, on short notice.
  • Must be able to work in noisy environments.
  • Must work well with others as a member of a team to complete tasks.

How this job compares in Atlanta, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Atlanta, GA currently run a median of $33/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $26–$50/hr across 44 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Atlanta, GA

We're tracking 119 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 87 different employers. 58 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 444 other active welding openings from 282 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.

Gaylor Electric, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Marathon (10), Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC (7), and Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Atlanta at $33/hr, and Conyers at $31/hr. Atlanta is among them.

Similar openings near Atlanta, GA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Traveling Journeyman Electrician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.