Example Achievement Log for a Electrician

A year in the life of a Electrician's log

• Feb - task: Took over Jan schedule for Malik while he was out with a knee injury. Covered his regular maintenance route plus emergency callbacks. Got to know the tenant base in the west wing better than expected.
• Mar - achievement: Found the intermittent voltage drop in the 4th floor east panel that had stumped us for two months. Bad solder joint on the main breaker. Once fixed, no more lights flickering during peak hours.
• Apr - feedback: Marcus from maintenance said in the break room: 'You didn't just patch it, you actually found what was broken.' Meant a lot coming from him.
• Apr - task: Rewired the emergency lighting circuit in the basement stairwell after the old conduit started cracking. Used 10mm armored cable instead of the thin stuff that was failing. Tougher and future-proof.
• Jun - achievement: Preventive maintenance on the backup generator caught a corroded battery terminal before it would have failed during a real outage. Replaced all three terminals and cleaned the posts. Battery load test passed at 95% capacity.
• Jul - achievement: Diagnosed a three-phase motor that was tripping the soft starter. Megohm test showed 0.8 megohms insulation resistance, well below spec. Motor was wet-wound from a roof leak. Ordered replacement and rerouted cooling line so it won't happen again.
• Jul - task: Failed on the first attempt to troubleshoot the parking garage lights. Assumed a bad ballast when it was actually a tripped contactor in the disconnect. Wasted an hour before checking the basics again.
• Sep - feedback: Denise the facilities manager mentioned my name specifically in a team meeting: 'That's the kind of attention to detail we need on the infrastructure side.' Happened after I caught an unlabeled circuit during the breaker audit.
• Oct - achievement: Completed the annual safety audit and breaker labeling project. Updated the one-line diagram to match the actual configuration. Found six circuits that were mislabeled on the original plans.
• Oct - task: Installed new receptacles and GFCI protection in the 2nd floor kitchenette. Updated the electrical logbook with the new circuit counts and rewiring notes for next technician.
• Dec - achievement: Year-end inspection of all three roof-mounted disconnect switches. Found corrosion on the hinges of the east unit. Cleaned, treated, and replaced gaskets. All three now pass moisture and salt spray resistance checks.

What makes a strong entry

How this becomes your review in November

This year I spent time building depth in equipment diagnostics and maintenance planning. When I found the two-month voltage drop problem in the 4th floor east panel, traced it to a bad solder joint on the main breaker, it was a reminder that intermittent faults often sit between obvious, and I've learned to check the foundations first. That thinking paid off again on the backup generator, where preventive maintenance caught corroded battery terminals before they could fail during an actual outage; all three terminals were replaced and the load test came back at 95% capacity. I've also taken ownership of the infrastructure documentation side: the annual safety audit and breaker labeling project closed six mismatches between the one-line diagram and the floor.

Starting your own log

Don't try to reconstruct a year you have already had. Start from today, one line whenever something happens, and let it build. The Perform Review Achievement Log does this for you and can capture wins straight from Slack, and how to start an achievement log covers the wider playbook.

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