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4 of 8

Track

Support

Family rungs priced

S1 · S2 · S3 · S4 · S5

17-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

An experienced technician who independently installs, tests, and maintains complex electrical power and signaling systems. At the Lead Support Specialist (S4) level, the role owns team process and quality, cross-case patterns and process gaps, and drives team-level quality and efficiency. Mentors and coordinates the support team.

What this level does

Adapt drafting standards, test procedures and calculation templates for unfamiliar assemblies or new product types where no established procedure exists, recommending the approach to the responsible engineer
Resolve conflicting requirements across disciplines and vendors — non-standard connectors, revised load conditions, late code changes — and rework affected drawings and test plans resourcefully
Serve as the working lead for the drafting/test-technician group, informally guiding less experienced staff and reviewing their check prints and test data before release
Investigate recurring prototype or documentation failures, trace the root cause, and update the affected procedures and drawing templates to prevent recurrence

Knowledge applied: Extensive knowledge of drafting standards, test methods and their administration, enough to adapt them for unprecedented assemblies.
Complexity & problem solving: Understands the implications of design and compliance choices; recommends new solutions and resolves conflicts across disciplines and vendors.
Collaboration & interaction: Determines methods for new assignments; may informally guide and review the work of less experienced drafters and technicians as a working lead.
Typical experience: 4–6 years; advanced electrical support experience.

Skills at this level

AutoCAD Electrical drafting: — Produces electrical schematics, panel layouts and wiring diagrams in AutoCAD Electrical from sketches and redlines, applying wire-numbering, cross-referencing and title-block conventions.
Electrical calculations: — Performs voltage, current and load calculations into standard worksheets to support conductor sizing and component selection on drawing packages.
Codes, standards, and compliance: — Checks drawings and assemblies against NEC and OSHA reference tables for conductor sizes, clearances and labeling, and reconciles discrepancies for engineer review.
Prototype build and bench testing: — Sets up and runs prototype rigs and continuity, insulation and load tests on electrical components or assemblies, recording results against expected ranges.
Design & simulation software: — Runs MATLAB/Simulink models and Powersim PSIM simulations at engineer request to reproduce circuit behavior and help isolate faults.
Design documentation and revision control: — Logs design revisions in the drawing register, compiles engineering reports, and keeps revision states aligned across multidisciplinary drawing exchanges.
Multidisciplinary coordination: — Coordinates day-to-day drawing and data exchange with mechanical and other engineering disciplines to keep an electrical package consistent.
Quality control analysis: — Conducts check-print reviews and inspections of test data to evaluate that drawings and prototypes meet specification before release.
Procedure development: — Creates and documents new drafting conventions, test procedures and calculation templates for the electrical support group to follow.
Coaching/mentoring: — Guides less experienced drafters and technicians on tools, standards and check-print practice as an informal working lead.

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Pay across the ladder

Electrical Engineering — 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 17-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+1.7%Electrical Engineers · United States

185,570 → 188,790 jobs

11,700 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 10,318

Growth — new jobs (12%)Exits — backfill (88%)

12% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +7.2%
Growth share of hiring: 12%
Exit / retention pressure high: 88%
Openings / year: 11,700

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 S4 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$94k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$84k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$78k

Boulder, CO$77k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$77k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$74k

Lexington Park, MD$72k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$71k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $56k; 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 S4 (S4 — Lead Support Specialist) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Team process and quality
Autonomy: Works independently; owns improvements
Complexity: Cross-case patterns and process gaps
Impact: Team-level quality and efficiency
Decision rights: Owns process and quality decisions for the team
Leadership: Mentors and coordinates the support team

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

Promotion

The next rung from S4 is S5.

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
Chief Electrical Engineering Officer	jf_electrical_engineering::E4	$389,207†	confident0.06
Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering	jf_electrical_engineering::M4	$167,689†	confident0.06
Senior Electrical Engineer	jf_electrical_engineering::P4	$109,466†	confident0.06
Senior Electrical Technician	jf_electrical_engineering::S3	$49,566†	confident0.06

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

Capability cluster

O*NET 17-2071

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

S4

jf_electrical_engineering::S4

Advanced Electrical Technician

Electrical Engineering

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: engineering_expansion
Family: electrical_engineering
Universal level: 4 / 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").

Aeronautical · S4review0.17

Agricultural · S4review0.17

Agronomist · S4review0.17

Application Services · S4review0.17

Chemical · S4review0.17

Communication · S4review0.17

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 17-2071	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

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Gaps shown as gaps

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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)