Electrician OPS: job description, categories

Electrician OPS - the name of the specialty, which means "electrician security and fire alarm." An employee for this position is required in each company that has set itself an alarm in case of fire.

In order to get this job, it is necessary to meet professional requirements, as well as have a set of personal qualities that will make the performance of official duties productive and efficient.

Documents

In his work, the electrician OPS relies on the job description, the legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as regulations adopted at the enterprise.

The employee reports to the direct management or director of the organization, depending on the hierarchy in the company.

The job description should contain a list of duties, requirements, rights and responsibilities that are assigned to the employee.

Familiarization with the document takes place at the time of taking on the position, as well as in the case of amendments to any of the documents.

An electrician can be an employee who has the qualifications corresponding to the Unified Tariff and Qualification Handbook.

Electrician groups

Five groups are distinguished into which the employees of this post are divided. For each category, their requirements and responsibilities related to approvals for working with electrical equipment are indicated.

The categories of electricians of the OPS are divided into third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh. The highest is the third. For this category of employees the greatest degree of responsibility is established, their powers are the broadest. The seventh category is the lowest, employees with this category can have secondary specialized education and bear minimal responsibility due to the simplicity of the tasks entrusted.

A highly qualified electrician must know everything that a lower level electrician must know. This statement is relevant for all categories except the lowest, seventh.

Necessary knowledge

Each category serves a certain type of equipment, performs its duties. Depending on the tolerance, electricians perform more precise and responsible work or are engaged in smaller duties.

For example, the instruction of the electrician of an OPS of the third category requires knowledge of it:

• devices and technical data rules of serviced equipment;
• the order in which the performance check of control and management systems is carried out;
• rules for cable breeding in boxes, cabinets, boxes and boxes;
• ways that the detectors are mounted;
• rules for working with the simplest tool that is used when installing alarm equipment at entrusted facilities;
• methods by which they look for malfunctions in the operation of the alarm, as well as ways to eliminate them;
• basics of electrical engineering;
• fire safety rules;
• instructions on which the workplace is kept in order;
• main types of deviations of operating modes from normal;
• requirements for the use of fixed assets;
• the order of actions that are aimed at preventing dangerous situations;
• rules for first aid for victims of injury, poisoning or sudden illness;
• rules aimed at protecting the environment;
• internal labor regulations;
• rules of sanitation, hygiene, health and safety.

The personal qualities necessary to work in this position include punctuality, scrupulousness, responsibility, and the ability to work in difficult conditions.

Duties

The job description of the electrician OPS instructs him to perform the work:

• alarm line repair and line maintenance;
• inspection of cable routes;
• cleaning of contacts and contactors, cords, switches, buttons and other main and auxiliary equipment;
• drawing lines and hanging lines according to simple schemes;
• soldering and installation of branch, connecting and terminal couplings;
• verification of installation using simple devices;
• elimination of defects that appeared during the assembly of simple circuits;
• carrying out maintenance, installation, commissioning, repair of devices;
• attaching detectors to building structures using screws, brackets, dowels;
• installation of coupler boxes, wiring in boxes and for building structures;
• digging of special trenches, work on the implementation of auxiliary measures;
• functional check of active and passive detectors and elements of access control and control systems.

Rights

Regardless of what category the electrician of the OPS has, he has the right to:

• providing him with personal protective equipment, the necessary tools and materials, a workplace equipped according to his needs;
• creating a comfortable working environment and conditions that meet labor protection standards;
• informing direct management of the shortcomings that are identified in the activities of the company as part of its responsibilities;
• making suggestions for troubleshooting

Responsibility

The electrician OPS is responsible for the performance of his direct duties. In addition, in his activities he is responsible for:

• improper performance or non-performance of work, which are listed in the job description;
• non-compliance with the rules of occupational health and safety, internal regulations, fire safety;
• violation of the safety of the entrusted material and technical values;
• causing material damage to the organization, in this paragraph the liability is determined in the framework of the current legislation.

Jobs

Work as an OPS electrician provides for a high level of responsibility. Employees in different regions of the country can expect different salaries. However, most often a salary level of 15,000 rubles or more is set for this position.

If there is a vacancy in a large company, the candidate needs to understand that he will be responsible for a system that protects a large number of people.