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6 of 8

Track

Individual contributor

Family rungs priced

P1 · P2 · P3 · P4 · P5 · P6

47-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Serves as the top individual-contributor authority on electrical power delivery systems, guiding design and reliability strategy across transmission, distribution, and substation infrastructure. At the Principal Professional (P6) level, the role owns organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems, strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future, and drives organization-wide. Recognized authority; multiplies many teams.

What this level does

Operates at the top of the trade—designing power distribution systems for the largest and most technically demanding projects and running or leading a contracting business.
Sets the standard for electrical design and code interpretation, developing methods and details that other master and journeyman electricians adopt.
Provides final engineering and permitting authority across a portfolio of complex projects, resolving the intractable problems that lower levels cannot.
Coordinates directly with clients, architects, and authorities having jurisdiction to shape project scope, feasibility, and safety strategy from inception.
Mentors and elevates master and journeyman electricians, establishing training and quality practices that raise capability across the whole organization.

Knowledge applied: Applies field-defining mastery, designing power distribution and code details that become reference standards and pioneering methods beyond conventional practice.
Complexity & problem solving: Provides visionary, system-shaping problem-solving on the most demanding projects; diagnoses barriers others cannot see and designs superior approaches.
Collaboration & interaction: Recognized authority who influences clients, authorities having jurisdiction, and the broader trade community; sets organization-wide quality and training practices.
Typical experience: 15+ years as a principal master electrician; typically owns or leads a contracting operation with final accountability for complex electrical work.

Skills at this level

Conduit and Wiring Fundamentals: — Prepares and assembles conduits, connects wiring through them, and joins conductors into circuits and networks so that installations carry power safely and to plan.
Electrical Installation and Fixture Mounting: — Installs and maintains electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures—including street lights, intercom systems, and electrical control systems—so they function reliably in the field.
Electrical Troubleshooting and Diagnostics: — Uses testing devices to isolate faults in electrical components and circuits, tracing symptoms to root cause and confirming the system is safe and functional after repair.
Electrical Code Compliance: — Verifies that installation and repair work conforms to the relevant national, state, and local electrical codes, catching dangerous deviations before energizing a system.
Blueprint and Electrical Plan Interpretation: — Reads and interprets construction blueprints and electrical plans to lay out installations, verify measurements, and sequence work against the engineered design.
Power Distribution System Design: — Designs electrical and power distribution systems—sizing conductors, panels, and protection so every component meets code and the load requirements of the building or facility.
Permitting and Regulatory Authority: — Pulls permits and takes legal, master-level responsibility for signing off electrical work, ensuring installations satisfy the authority having jurisdiction and life-safety requirements.
Job-Site Supervision: — Supervises tasks within a job site by verifying measurements and installation techniques and guiding apprentices and crew through the physical act of building electrical work.
Electrical Project Management: — Designs, manages, and supervises complex electrical projects end to end, coordinating clients, other trades, and inspectors to deliver compliant, on-schedule installations.
Apprentice and Journeyman Training: — Trains and develops apprentice and journeyman electricians on safe practices, terminations, and code, transferring the broader range of concepts needed to assume greater responsibility.
Electrical Safety and De-Energization Practice: — Confirms circuits are de-energized and applies safe work practices before and during electrical work, treating energized systems as life-threatening hazards requiring verification.

Model-authored from 18 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.

Pay across the ladder

Electrical — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 47-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+7.8%Electricians · United States

688,620 → 742,580 jobs

81,000 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 73,222

Growth — new jobs (10%)Exits — backfill (90%)

10% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +9.5%
Growth share of hiring: 10%
Exit / retention pressure high: 90%
Openings / year: 81,000

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level P6 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$324k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$290k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$269k

Boulder, CO$265k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$265k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$254k

Lexington Park, MD$247k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$246k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $194k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates P6 (P6 — Principal Professional) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
Autonomy: Defines direction; minimal oversight
Complexity: Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
Impact: Organization-wide
Decision rights: Sets technical strategy for a major area
Leadership: Recognized authority; multiplies many teams

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

P6is the top of this family's ladder — progression from here is a lattice move (see adjacent roles below), not a rung.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Senior Director of Electrical Operations	jf_electrical::M6	$241,631†	confident0.06
Expert Electrical Engineer	jf_electrical::P5	$138,423†	confident0.06
Director of Electrical Operations	jf_electrical::M5	$188,371†	confident0.12
Lead Electrical Lineworker	jf_electrical::S5	$60,631†	confident0.12

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 47-2111

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

P6

jf_electrical::P6

Principal Electrical Engineer

Electrical

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: P
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: skilled_trades
Family: electrical
Universal level: 6 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

General · P6review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 47-2111	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)