Vacanta
Maintenance & Engineering

Senior Electrician — High Voltage & Distribution

Luxury resort complex, Punta Cancún

Cancún

MXN 16,000 – 21,000 / monthFull-time, permanent

Fixed monthly + bono de guardia nocturna

Responsibilities

  • Manage medium and high-voltage systems: substation monitoring, transformer maintenance, power factor correction
  • Oversee emergency power systems — generator sets, automatic transfer switches, UPS systems for critical loads
  • Coordinate with CFE on power supply issues and utility metering
  • Supervise junior electricians during high-voltage maintenance windows
  • Perform load analysis across resort zones and recommend load balancing measures to engineering management
  • Maintain documentation of all high-voltage work in compliance with STPS safety regulations

Requirements

  • Formal electrical engineering technician qualification or equivalent demonstrated experience
  • Minimum 4 years electrical work with high-voltage or substation experience
  • STPS safety compliance knowledge for electrical work
  • Calm and methodical under pressure — high-voltage fault response requires controlled procedure

Benefits

  • IMSS, aguinaldo, paid vacation + premium
  • Night on-call bonus
  • Grocery vouchers MXN 1,000/month
  • Life insurance
  • Specialized tools provided

Work environment

Luxury resort with private substation and full high-voltage infrastructure. Technical senior role requiring genuine high-voltage competency.

About the role

Very few hotel electricians work at the substation level. The senior electrician who can walk into a transformer room, read the protection relay data, and understand what happened to cause a fault — then coordinate the repair without taking the whole resort dark — is operating at a technical level that justifies senior compensation and earns permanent employment at any property in the region.

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