LINEMAN B - UG

Requirements

• Regular attendance and punctuality.
• Adhere to safety practices and procedures, such as checking equipment regularly and erecting barriers around work areas and following company procedure in reporting unsafe conditions or practices.
• Climb poles or use truck-mounted buckets to access equipment and works at heights.
• Safely construct, maintain, and repair electrical overhead and underground distribution systems and substations, including conduits, cables, wires, and related equipment, such as transformers, circuit breakers, and switches.
• Verify proper grounding of truck.
• Safely control traffic passing near, in or around work zones.
• Keep unauthorized people away from work area.
• Identify defective sectionalizing devices, circuit breakers, fuses, voltage regulators, transformers, switches, relays, or wiring, using wiring diagrams and electrical-testing instruments.
• Drive vehicles equipped with tools and materials to job sites.
• String wire conductors and cables between poles, towers, trenches, pylons, and buildings, setting lines in place and using winches to adjust tension.
• Replace or straighten damaged poles.
• Attach cross-arms, insulators, and auxiliary equipment to poles prior to installing them.
• Dig holes, using augers, and set poles, using cranes and power equipment.
• Splice or solder cables together or to overhead transmission lines, customer service lines, or street light lines, using hand tools, epoxies, or specialized equipment.
• Cut and peel lead sheathing and insulation from defective or newly installed cables and conduits prior to splicing.
• Clean, tin, and splice corresponding conductors by twisting ends together or by joining ends with metal clamps and soldering connections.
• Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
• Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduit running through the trenches.
• Cut trenches for laying underground cables, using trenchers and cable plows.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 2 1/2 years' experience in groundman and lineman work.
• (Lineman training school qualifies for experience; field assessment to determine competency).
• Ability to travel at a moment's notice, anytime.
• Available to work irregular hours, weekends and holidays, as needed.
• Possess at minimum a valid CDL-B license.
• Possess your own tools.
• Ability to handle physically demanding construction duties in harsh weather conditions.
• Ability to read and follow instructions.
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
• Ability to hear a long distance.
• Must be able to see long distances and differentiate between colors and have clear depth perception, as well as peripheral vision ability.

Desired Skills & Abilities

• A High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
• Completion of a Lineman training school preferred.
• Computer application aptitude is a plus.

Chain Electric Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.