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Electrical Coordinator
Working Title: ALS-U Electrical Coordinator

Location: Berkeley, California (primarily on-site)
Pay Rate: $55/hr - $60/hr
Contract: 1-year base with two (2) 1-year option periods
Work Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Clearance: None required — site access, badging, training, and cybersecurity requirements apply

About the Role
We are recruiting for an Electrical Coordinator to join a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, supporting the Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U) Storage Ring Installation and Seismic Retrofit Project. ALS-U is a major upgrade to the Advanced Light Source, a 1.9 GeV storage ring that will be rebuilt around a multibend achromat lattice to deliver a soft x-ray source 100 to 1,000 times brighter than the existing facility.
In this role you will plan, coordinate, and document electrical construction activities tied to equipment relocation, cable management, temporary power, construction work execution, testing, commissioning, and project closeout. The work calls for extensive coordination across engineering, construction management, operations, facilities, environmental health and safety, subcontractors, and project stakeholders, while maintaining compliance with laboratory work planning, electrical safety, and Integrated Safety Management requirements.
This is a hands-on field position. You should expect frequent work inside active accelerator facilities, regular job walks, and direct daily contact with the crews and engineers executing the installation.

Key Responsibilities
• Develop the electrical scope associated with temporary and permanent relocation of electrical and electronic systems.
• Coordinate electrical work across engineering, construction, operations, facilities, safety organizations, and subcontractors.
• Lead electrical planning and coordination meetings, and maintain agendas, action-item logs, and decision records.
• Coordinate temporary construction power, and coordinate testing and commissioning activities.
• Perform field verification of existing electrical infrastructure, including wireway cataloging, cable identification and labeling, cable database support, existing drawing verification, and underground conduit investigations.
• Prepare cable entry documentation supporting ALS-U Cable Plant activities.
• Conduct job walks and constructability reviews, identify hazards, coordinate lockout/tagout, deliver pre-job briefings, and drive field issue resolution.
• Prepare and maintain work-planning documentation including lockout/tagout plans, job safety plans, job instructions, work orders, cable lists, cable entry forms, penetration permits, and construction work packages.
• Produce field verification reports, as-built documentation, and construction records, and support project closeout.
• Support all activities using Integrated Safety Management principles, including work planning, hazard analysis, job safety planning, construction coordination, field oversight, and safety documentation.
• Issue periodic status reports summarizing work performed, upcoming activities, open issues, schedule concerns, and safety matters.

Required Education & Experience
No specific degree is required for this position. Qualification is based on demonstrated experience coordinating electrical construction activities and supporting industrial, laboratory, institutional, or utility electrical systems, together with a strong working understanding of electrical work planning and execution. Journeyman or master electrician backgrounds, electrical construction supervision and coordination experience, and electrical engineering or engineering-technology backgrounds are all applicable paths into this role.

Top Skills & Requirements
• Ability to obtain and maintain Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW) certification.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Responsible Individual (RI) qualification.
• Experience coordinating electrical construction activities.
• Experience supporting industrial, laboratory, institutional, or utility electrical systems.
• Strong understanding of electrical work planning and execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills.
• Ability to independently coordinate multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to perform routine field work including walking construction sites, climbing ladders, and accessing congested equipment areas.
• Demonstrated commitment to safe work execution.

Preferred Qualifications
• Existing Berkeley Lab experience. Because of the specialized nature of this assignment and the aggressive project schedule, candidates already familiar with laboratory facilities, ALS operations, work planning processes, and electrical safety practices are strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with Advanced Light Source facilities.
• Existing Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW) qualification.
• Existing Responsible Individual (RI) qualification.
• Experience supporting accelerator facilities or comparable research facilities.
• Experience coordinating electrical construction subcontractors.
• Experience developing lockout/tagout documentation, job safety plans, and construction work packages.
• Experience coordinating cable management, cable documentation, and electrical infrastructure modifications.

Contract Details
Duration: 1-year base period with two (2) additional 1-year option periods, each exercisable separately at the laboratory's sole discretion and subject to continued project need, satisfactory performance, and availability of funds.
Estimated Hours: Full-time (40 hours per week) during periods of active construction and installation support. When the primary Storage Ring Seismic Retrofit scope is reduced, other related ALS-U electrical coordination work within the project scope may be assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, standard business hours, on-site. Limited remote work may be authorized for activities that do not require physical presence, such as document preparation, meeting preparation, and records maintenance; remote work may not interfere with required field coverage or response to active construction needs.

Travel
Travel is not anticipated as a routine requirement for this position. Any travel must be authorized in advance.

Interview Process
Interviews are conducted via Microsoft Teams.

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