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5 of 8

Track

Support

Family rungs priced

S1 · S2 · S3 · S4 · S5

47-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Serves as the top-level technical authority for installing, maintaining, and repairing power lines, cables, and substation equipment. At the Principal Support Specialist (S5) level, the role owns function-wide support practice, program-level and systemic support problems, and drives support strategy across the function. Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice.

What this level does

As a master-level electrician, supervises and approves all electrical work done by electricians and journeymen and signs for all electrical work in the facility
Applies deep understanding of electrical codes and system design at the highest licensing level to define installation methods and standards
Establishes or refines shop procedures and safe-work methods and trains journey-level electricians in their application
Resolves the most complex or ambiguous electrical failures that lower levels escalate, developing new diagnostic approaches
Acts as working lead — coordinating the technical execution of a job and providing authoritative guidance to journey-level and apprentice staff

Knowledge applied: Master-level expertise in codes and system design; contributes to creating shop procedures and defining installation standards.
Complexity & problem solving: Resolves the most complex/escalated electrical issues and develops new diagnostic and safe-work techniques.
Collaboration & interaction: Acts as working lead — supervises, approves, and signs off electrical work and provides authoritative peer guidance.
Typical experience: 6+ yrs; master license or equivalent specialty expertise.

Skills at this level

Troubleshooting / diagnostics: — Finds, diagnoses, and repairs electrical problems — performs tests to determine the cause of a motor or circuit failure and acts on the results.
Tool and test-equipment proficiency: — Uses power construction equipment, measuring devices, power tools, and testing equipment such as oscilloscopes, ammeters, voltmeters, and test lamps to install and verify electrical work.
Blueprint and layout reading: — Reads technical blueprints and job orders and prepares sketches to determine location of wiring, conduit, and equipment before installation.
Conduit and wiring installation: — Prepares and assembles conduit, pulls wire through openings, and connects breakers, fixtures, outlets, ground leads, and power cables to equipment such as motors.
Wire termination: — Strips insulation from wire ends with wire stripping pliers and attaches wires to terminals for subsequent soldering or connection.
Electrical code compliance: — Plans and inspects installations against building, safety, and local electrical codes to ensure conformance and readiness for inspection.
Circuit testing and continuity checks: — Tests electrical systems and the continuity of circuits in equipment and interprets whether readings fall inside expected values.
Applied mathematics: — Uses measurement, conduit-bend, and load calculations to size, cut, and route wire and conduit correctly.
Licensing and regulatory knowledge: — Maintains a current electrician's license or identification card and applies governmental regulations governing who may perform and sign off electrical work.
Work coordination and training: — Directs or trains less-experienced workers on installation, maintenance, and repair, and at master level supervises and approves all electrical work in a facility.

Model-authored from 16 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 S5 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$104k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$93k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$86k

Boulder, CO$85k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$85k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$82k

Lexington Park, MD$80k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$79k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $63k; 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 S5 (S5 — Principal Support Specialist) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Function-wide support practice
Autonomy: Sets direction for the support discipline
Complexity: Program-level and systemic support problems
Impact: Support strategy across the function
Decision rights: Authority over support practice and standards
Leadership: Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice

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

Promotion

S5is 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
Director of Electrical Operations	jf_electrical::M5	$188,371†	confident0.06
Expert Electrical Engineer	jf_electrical::P5	$138,423†	confident0.06
Journeyman Lineworker	jf_electrical::S4	$56,408†	confident0.06
Senior Manager, Electrical Operations	jf_electrical::M4	$167,689†	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

S5

jf_electrical::S5

Lead Electrical Lineworker

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: S
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: skilled_trades
Family: electrical
Universal level: 5 / 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 · S5review0.17

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)