Lineworker I - Lineworker Sr.

About the role

This position covers all aspects of the Lineworker job function, including maintaining and building overhead and underground electrical facilities. Responsibilities range from learning and performing tasks to leading other lineworkers, managing material maintenance, and performing aerial and underground work, including utility distribution construction tasks. All work is performed with a Live Safe mindset to mitigate identified hazards.

Responsibilities

Lineworker I

• Proper use and care of all rubber goods and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Perform confined space and bucket rescue tasks
• Set up and operate aerial baskets and digger derrick trucks
• Lift, rig, and tie knots to set up jobsites and materials 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

Lineworker II

• Perform overhead tasks, including energized primary cover-up to 34,500 volts
• Understand transformer theories, including bank installations, tap settings, 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; identify materials and understand distribution construction specifications

Lineworker III

• Perform all tasks included in Helper through Lineworker II
• Build and maintain underground residential distribution circuits, including preparing and operating pad-mount switchgear, installing and troubleshooting URD circuits, and switching/tagging URD primary cable
• Learn three-phase primary tasks, including safe operation and removal/installation of single- and three-phase reclosers, changing out insulators, and installing and replacing Gang Operated Airbrake Switches (GOABs)

Lineworker Sr

• Perform all tasks included in Helper through Lineworker III
• 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, capacitor banks, Alternate Switching Scheme, and Intelliruptor devices

All Levels

• Maintain a well-organized jobsite to ensure surroundings are safe
• Learn, complete, and perform (Lineworker I–Sr) all mandated training, such as First Aid and CPR

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Minimum Experience

• Lineworker I: 6 months to 1 year of field distribution experience
• Lineworker II: 1.5 to 2 years of field distribution experience
• Lineworker III: 2.5 to 3 years of field distribution experience
• Lineworker Sr: 3.5 to 4 years of field distribution experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to use physical strength to perform required tasks in all weather conditions
• Ability to work irregular hours and out-of-town assignments as required
• Ability to take and understand directives and complete tasks with limited supervision
• Ability to plan and lay out all work in a safe and efficient manner
• Ability to assume a lead role and direct the work of other linemen
• Ability to climb and work off poles of various heights
• Ability to walk on all types of terrain

Certificates and Licenses

• Valid driver’s license
• Must have and maintain a Class-A CDL or ability to obtain one within 6 months of employment
• Preferred: valid Class A CDL

This position is designated as a Safety Sensitive position and is subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing.