Duties : general electrician
Electricians are qualified workers whose responsibilities are to design, install, maintain electrical wiring systems, as well as identify problems and solve them immediately, complying with the highest safety regulations. These systems can be located in homes, commercial premises, buildings or industrial facilities, or even at the micro level, in machinery and large pieces of industrial equipment. The electrical contractors in Delray Beach work both indoors and outdoors or outdoors to make possible the use of lights, electronic devices or audiovisual installations, industrial equipment, household appliances and many other essential tools.
What exactly does an Electrician do?
They can handle either indoor wiring or specialize in outdoor operations, as general categories, with different subspecialties for each branch. The tasks they carry out will also depend largely on each type of specialization.
Electricians who fall into the ‘indoor’ branch tend to focus almost entirely on building wiring. The range of activities that they cover can go from the construction of new houses to the construction of a new improvised hospital or the restoration of warehouses and industrial buildings for new and different uses. Indoor electricians work with wiring plans and install new electrical systems and circuits in newly completed buildings or repair and replace old installations.
Outdoor electricians , meanwhile, work in open spaces or outdoor installations. If you are considering this branch of electricity as an option, you will have to be very fit . Prepared even to climb light or telephone poles, that there are not always cranes at hand. In some extreme cases you will have to withstand the inclement weather, repairing the electrical installations in case of extreme need. Usually you will install and repair transformers, transmission belts and traffic signs, although there are many possibilities.
To give you an idea, we leave you some concrete examples of jobs that an electrician can carry out:
Create and execute the wiring and electrical installation project of a home, residential building, company, office, factory, installation …
Supervise and carry out the maintenance of equipment, facilities and appliances.
Check the safety of systems and elements, and repair any possible breakdown or malfunction.
Interpret installation plans and know the basic operation of each type and piece.
Know and master parts and assembly of all types of equipment and systems.
Of course, once the actual work is finished, it is also necessary to know how to make estimates, invoices and all kinds of associated documentation.