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Oilfield Electrician

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Title: Oilfield Electrician

Location: Jal, NM and Surrounding Areas

Schedule: 5/2 Rotation (5 days on 2 days off)

Hours: 10 to 12-hour days (Rotational Weekend Call Outs Required)

Pay: For this role depends on experience within the range $35-$55/hr

Top Focus of this Position:

· Continual Field Maintenance and Troubleshooting of circuit breakers, limit switches, overload relays, motor starters, and electrical control circuits in an Upstream environment.

· Has Knowledge and Understands Tank Battery Facilities

Requirements

Oilfield Electrician will have Knowledge and Ability to Perform the Following:

· Able to utilize technical skills to troubleshoot production instrumentation, electronics, and electrical components.

· Troubleshoot pump panels at a tank battery facility

· Installs, repairs, or replaces 120V AC/DC motors, as well as hydraulic and gas electrical controls.

· Working knowledge of control circuits in PLC switches

· Provide field instrumentation support for all process equipment (pneumatic, hydraulic, electro-mechanical, electronic systems)

· Installs, repairs, or replaces electrical wiring, receptacles, switch boxes, conduits, feeders, lighting, and alternative electrical parts.

· Tests electrical equipment and parts for continuity, current, voltage, and resistance.

Qualifications:

· Experience troubleshooting motor starters and VFD’s/VSD's.

· Able to do electrical equipment installations, inspections, and troubleshooting tasks to maximize production and enhance the reliability of the operation.

· Recognize malfunctions in individual equipment and perform maintenance as necessary to correct problems.

· Familiar with installing, swapping, and testing single to three-phase motors.

· Tests and commissions integrated and non-integrated electrical systems, i.e. switchgear, network relays.

· Ability to use megger and multimeter.

· Use reference documentation to size conductors, overload, and short circuit protection.

· Operate and perform activities in accordance with applicable regulations and procedures (Federal, State, and local policies and procedures).

· Must be willing to undergo background check and driving record check.

· Must be willing and able to pass DOT drug screening / physical.

· A minimum of 4-year Electrician experience is required

· A minimum of 2-years Upstream experience is required

· Journeyman’s Electrician License , but not required

Benefits

A Company Truck, Company Fuel Card, Computer, and Cell Phone as well as Excellent Medical Benefits, 401K, free life insurance, long-term and short-term , dental and eye care, Earned Vacation, Holiday Pay, in addition to 3 sets of FRCs.

Oilfield Electrician

Hobbs, NM
Full time

Published on 09/26/2025

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