About This Role
This role involves performing all aspects of the Lineworker job function, including maintaining and building overhead and underground electrical facilities. The position requires learning, performing, and leading other line workers, material maintenance, and utility distribution construction tasks, all while maintaining a Live Safe mindset.
Responsibilities
- Learn and understand human performance and safety tools and their usage
- Drive different sizes and types of trucks
- Operate various pieces of equipment, including Aerial Bucket, Bread Vans, and Digger Derrick Trucks
- Read and understand job prints and sketches with reference to distribution standards
- Properly use and care for all rubber goods and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Perform confined space and bucket rescue tasks
- Properly set up and operate aerial baskets and digger derrick trucks
- Lift, rig, and tie knots to set up jobsite and material for work in manholes and vaults
- Identify materials and understand distribution construction specifications
- Properly cover up secondary lines and perform energized work on secondary voltage lines
- Use meters to perform tests and install 3 and 4 wire secondary lines
- Identify substation and underground equipment
- Perform overhead tasks, including energized primary cover up to 34,500 volts
- Understand transformer theories including bank installations, tap settings, and identifying and constructing multiple secondary voltage applications
- Learn and perform simple primary voltage switching (up to 34,500 volts) tasks and applications
- Lift, rig, and tie knots to set up, construct, frame poles, and change out cross-arms
- Build and maintain underground residential distribution circuits, including preparing/operating pad mount switch gear, installing and troubleshooting URD circuits and switching/tagging URD primary cable
- Learn three phase primary tasks to include safe operation and removal/installation of single and three phase reclosers, changing out insulators, and installing and replacing Gang Operated Airbrake Switches (GOABs)
- Demonstrate strong leadership capabilities including indirect crew leadership
- Learn and perform advanced primary voltage switching (up to 34,500 volts) tasks and applications
- Perform advanced Lineworker tasks on Regulators, capacitors banks, Alternate Switching Scheme, and Intelliruptor devices
- Maintain a well-organized jobsite to ensure the surroundings are safe
- Learn, complete, and perform all mandated training, such as First Aid, CPR, etc.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent
