A Lineman - Overhead (DUKE)
On-siteLouisburg, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Perform new construction, maintain, and repair energized and de-energized overhead distribution systems while prioritizing safety. Lead crew members in the absence of the Employee in Charge, conduct pre-job and tailgate safety briefings, and train apprentices. Install and repair overhead power lines, poles, insulators, and conductors using approved climbing methods and bucket truck equipment. Execute live-line work with hot-stick techniques, troubleshoot faults, and operate tensioners and pullers. Work outdoors in extreme weather conditions and travel to out-of-state job sites for outages, storms, and emergencies. Available for on-call rotation and extended shifts including weekends and holidays.
Required Qualifications
- Five (5) years of recent overhead line experience
- Valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
- Willing to travel long distances on short notice
- Lift, carry, push, or pull materials and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds
- Willing to work outside of normal business hours, including weekends, holidays, emergency callouts, and overtime
- Comprehensive knowledge of switching and tagging procedures, grounding and induced voltage on energized and de-energized lines while using the proper tools and test equipment
- Climb different structures (wood, steel, concrete) using approved climbing methods and equipment
- Work at heights, in confined spaces, and in proximity to energized equipment
- Operate and maintain bucket trucks, digger derricks, tensioners and pullers and other pieces of overhead line equipment
- Work outdoors in varying environmental conditions, including extreme heat, cold, rain, wind, and inclement weather
- Available to work outages, storms, emergencies including on call rotation
- Perform live‐line work using approved gloving and hot‐stick techniques of energized lines, including troubleshooting and fault locating
- Follow all safety protocols including PPE use and possess a comprehensive understanding of insulated protective cover to isolate differences of potential
- Talk, listen and use hand signals to communicate
- Stand
- Walk
- Use hands and fingers to handle objects, operate tools or controls
- Reach with hands and arms
- Exposed to fumes or airborne particles
- Exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration
- Exposed to a variety of extreme conditions at construction job sites
- Noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud
- Perform job responsibilities in extreme heat, cold, wet, windy, and storm conditions
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