Our client is seeking a hands-on, licensed Journeyman Electrician to serve as the primary power and wiring validation authority in their fast-paced product R&D lab. Sitting within Electrical Engineering with a dot-line reporting relationship into EHS, this role acts as the essential safety check-and-balance, evaluating custom builds, resolving hazards, and granting energization clearance before prototype testing or leadership demos. Candidates must possess practical trade authority, hands-on wiring mastery, and strong interpersonal skills.
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location: Needham, Massachusetts
job type: Contract
salary: $42 - 47 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: High School
responsibilities:
- Inspect, evaluate, and test non-standard R&D setups to verify proper wiring practices, ground integrity, wire sizing, and power efficacy prior to testing or leadership demos.
- Serve as the official gatekeeper for prototype safety sign-off, granting clearance before AC mains or battery-powered builds are energized.
- Identify and resolve critical electrical hazards on open-chassis setups, specifically eliminating exposed live wiring, ungrounded metal chassis, and dangerously bypassed interlock switches.
- Safely wire, modify, and repair prototype builds across 120V/240V AC mains and low-voltage DC/battery systems. Restore safety interlocks, add temporary protective enclosures, and install proper strain reliefs.
- Function as the active operational link between Electrical Engineering and Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), upholding workplace safety without stalling rapid engineering development.
- Serve as an approachable, personable technical advisor across the lab, building positive working relationships with junior technicians, senior design engineers, and managers.
- Must have a active Journeyman Electrician License required. (Practical trade mastery and wiring authority are required.
- Deep hands-on experience wiring, modifying, and diagnosing 120V/240V AC mains circuits, low-voltage DC setups, and custom electrical enclosures.
- Highly personable, diplomatic, and articulate. Able to communicate safety requirements clearly and constructively to engineering peers and leadership.
- Ability to keep up with a high-velocity, fast-iterating product development environment.
- Background working in R&D laboratories, custom equipment builds, prototype shops, or industrial maintenanc is a preferred.
qualifications:
- Experience level: Experienced
- Minimum 2 years of experience
- Education: High School
skills:
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
