Electrical Maintenance Worker

About this role

The U.S. Mission in Tanzania is recruiting an Electrical Maintenance Worker for the Facilities Management office at Embassy Dar es Salaam. The position supports reliable electrical systems across mission buildings and facilities, including owned and leased residential properties, and the announcement covers two vacancies in Dar es Salaam. The worker performs scheduled and unscheduled electrical preventive maintenance and repairs.

Operational duties, about half the job, include repairing malfunctioning systems according to codes and manufacturers' recommendations, planning wiring, equipment and fixture installations, preparing sketches and cost estimates, and monitoring, inspecting and controlling generators, including standby generators for emergencies. The post-holder assembles, installs, tests and maintains electrical and electronic wiring, equipment, appliances and fixtures, responds to off-duty emergency calls when critical systems fail or safety is threatened, helps develop testing and inspection checklists, and contributes to the post occupational safety and health programme. Maintenance work includes preventive inspections, adjustments and troubleshooting to keep critical facilities powered. The worker inspects systems for hazards, defects and repair needs, ensures compliance with Overseas Buildings Operations reporting for the Annual Facility Condition Survey and Annual Inspection Summary, and tests circuits with ohmmeters, voltmeters and oscilloscopes.

Logistics duties include keeping operational data, forms, logs and reports, helping prepare maintenance and renovation documents, soliciting and monitoring contractors, and escorting local contractors. Candidates need secondary school completion at O level and accredited vocational training as a journeyman-level electrical technician. At least three years of electrical repair and maintenance experience is required. Selectees must obtain security and medical certificates and pass a background investigation and pre-employment medical exam.

The appointment is permanent and full-time at 40 hours per week, with occasional travel, no supervisory responsibility, no telework and no relocation expenses. Annual salary is TZS 26,013,545 at grade LE-6. Apply through vacancy DaresSalaam-2026-027 by 30 October 2026.