Lineman B - UG / Brandon, MS

About the Role

The Apprentice Lineman B is a semi-skilled position focused on the construction, repair, and maintenance of electrical overhead distribution systems. This role involves performing skilled tasks in line with standard trade practices.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to safety practices and procedures, including regular equipment checks and erecting barriers around work areas; report unsafe conditions or practices.
• Climb poles or use truck-mounted buckets to access equipment and work at heights.
• Construct, maintain, and repair electrical overhead and underground distribution systems and substations, including conduits, cables, wires, transformers, circuit breakers, and switches.
• Verify proper grounding of trucks and control traffic near work zones; keep unauthorized individuals away from work areas.
• 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; set lines in place and adjust tension using winches.
• Replace or straighten damaged poles; attach cross-arms, insulators, and auxiliary equipment to poles prior to installation.
• 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 joining them 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 trenches.
• Cut trenches for laying underground cables using trenchers and cable plows.
• Maintain regular attendance and punctuality.

Requirements

• Minimum 2.5 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 over long distances.
• Must have long-distance vision, color differentiation, clear depth perception, and peripheral vision.

Qualifications

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