Often considered the most essential electricians to businesses and organisations, Maintenance Electricians face a wide variety of electrical tasks in the day-to-day roster. This branch of electrical experts provides maintenance for the electrical system across residential, commercial and industrial projects.

Maintenance Electricians perform routine maintenance procedures and repairs required due to normal wear on the system. They use testing equipment, problem-solving skills, and experience to diagnose issues in electrical systems and make the necessary repairs.

They are required to inspect a premise regularly, conduct routine maintenance, perform repairs, and fix faulty wiring when necessary. Tasked with carrying out preventive maintenance tasks, Maintenance Electricians in conjunction with upgrades and new installations save clients from hefty electrical bills due to faulty or neglected electronics. Performing these regular services ensures electrical compliance, and can prevent electrical malfunctions due to negligence.

Installations and Repairs

One of the first tasks this style of electrician is called upon is to install or upgrade lights and electrical supplies, or switchboards. These experts require extensive knowledge of many electrical systems undergoing installation and repair while having extreme attention to detail.

Maintenance electricians can work over commercial or industrial sites, being reactive and showing diversity in their role. Their ample knowledge is one of the indispensable reasons this style of electrician is deemed so valuable to clients.

Inspect and Test

Maintenance electricians use diagnostic tools to inspect and test individual wiring, fixtures or complete circuits, replacing or repairing elements as needed.

The type of testing equipment used can vary per environment, but the diagnostic process and focus on safety remains the same. These processes include things we all know like test and tag, RCD Switchboard testing, thermographic imaging and exit & emergency lighting discharge tests. These are just some of the essential services completed to ensure safety in the workplace or organisation.

As employers, we are all aware of our obligations to ensure the safety of staff and employees across our sites, including the offices. All of these services offered by our maintenance electricians facilitate your company in meeting its obligations to provide a safe working environment.

Regular maintenance from your electrician ensures maximum functionality of your site and can also help reduce the cost of electrical bills by identifying poorly performing or damaged systems.

Analyse and Record Test Results

Maintenance Electricians are responsible for analysing test results for irregularities. They’re responsible for ensuring they document these irregularities in a maintenance log and ensuring these logs coincide with Health, Safety, Environment and Quality guidelines (HSEQ).

Many industries such as schools or offices with high staff turnaround can lack sufficient documentation. A highly skilled Maintenance Electrician can use their years of experience and knowledge to create auditing documents.

Teoma not only facilitates this process by providing on-site hard copy and digital records for the site but also retain full registers tracking all results over multiple years. If there is ever any concern or an investigation on-site, having up to date records with a history of compliance can go a long way in demonstrating compliance with the appropriate legislation.

Diagnose the Cause of Electrical Malfunctions

Maintenance Electricians are responsible for using deductive reasoning to figure out the root cause of an electrical malfunction, and then repairing the problem. Using years of experience and a wealth of knowledge these experts diagnose the problem and create a solution to repair rather than mask a reoccurring issue.

Hiring a licensed professional is the only way to protect your business and staff from electrical faults. By hiring an experienced and well-supported electrician you can be confident that you will have a complete solution to your problem and that with experience, your electrician will be much more efficient with minimal interruption to the operation of your site.

Create and Establish a Preventative Maintenance plan

The best way to avoid electrical malfunctions is to have a preventative maintenance plan in place. Regular and routine services every 6 to 12 months can sustain the lifespan of electronics as they’re able to detect or repair some system issues before they’re irreversible.

As a result, these systems will have more efficient usage, and lower energy bills in the long run. These services can also ensure all broken or outdated systems are replaced, meaning all electronics are functioning at maximum capacity.

Maintenance Electricians are responsible for developing and maintaining this plan in accordance with HSEQ guidelines and recording all details into the logbook each time. These services will enable a business or organisation to have the required HSEQ compliance.

Many of our clients utilise several or all areas of our reactive service offering. Every six months our team will attend these sites and carry out all Exit & Emergency Testing, RCD discharge Tests, and even Test and Tag.

By doing this every six months our clients are ensuring the safety of their staff onsite. Quite often, when our team is on-site, we will also be asked to carry out small installations or alterations like lighting installations or even new power points.

We encourage our clients to have a prepared list of items that our electricians can then take care of at the same time as the 6 monthly testing. By doing this at the same time, we are able to remove any call out expenses and also ensure that we have all components the client may request.

After seeing all of the essential services Maintenance Electricians can provide to safeguard the daily productivity of your organisation’s electrical dependent systems, you might be wondering when is the right time to hire one? Here are a few examples of when it’s the right time.

Although there is no different level of education required for Maintenance Electricians, their job does require mental agility, while being reactive and methodical in their thinking.

They must be able to analyse relevant Electrical Systems and use deductive reasoning to figure out what part of the system is causing it to malfunction, on top of providing regular and essential maintenance to their clients.

These highly skilled electricians regularly complete routine services and upgrades for a variety of electronics preventing faults and prolonging electrical systems in place. This role on a daily basis shows diversity in their skillset and proves why they are an essential need that businesses and organisations should routinely engage.

The electrical experts at Teoma are licenced professionals with over 30 years of experience regularly servicing an array of clients in Melbourne and the surrounding areas.

The team are reactive in their work and methodical in their thinking to create solutions instead of temporary fixes to electrical problems. Regular servicing is a vital aspect of managing business and schools health and safety.

By working with Teoma, you will have access to a national network of highly qualified, and experienced electricians that can provide you with all the services you would expect from a reliable contractor.

All team members have both a National Police Background and Working with Children Checks, as they are regularly engaged to work with local businesses, schools and city councils. With fully stocked vans ready, we don’t take risks – let us look after your electrical needs. Call us today to set up your electrical Maintenance and Servicing.

Our team of highly skilled electricians at Teoma have over 30 years of experience regularly completing routine services and energy upgrades for commercial properties, manufacturers’ education facilities at a large scale.

Their reactive nature and extensive knowledge are used to prevent faults and prolong electrical systems in place.

By engaging our team of experienced and well-supported electricians you can be confident that you will have a complete solution, with minimal interruption to the operation of your site. Call us today to speak directly with our Service and Maintenance Manager.