B Lineman - Overhead
On-siteWest Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Construct and repair electrical overhead distribution systems, including installing and fixing poles, insulators, conductors, and related hardware. Perform new construction, maintenance, and live-line work using approved gloving and hot-stick techniques while troubleshooting faults. Operate bucket trucks, digger derricks, tensioners, and pullers. Climb wood, steel, and concrete structures using approved methods, working at heights, in confined spaces, and near energized equipment. Execute switching, tagging, grounding, and induced voltage procedures with proper test equipment. Work outdoors in extreme heat, cold, rain, wind, and storm conditions. Maintain safety protocols, PPE use, and insulated protective covers. Available for outages, storms, emergencies, and on-call rotation, including travel to out-of-state locations and work outside normal business hours.
Required Qualifications
- Three (3) 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
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