Substation Elec Helper - Elkhorn Service Center

The Substation Electrician Helper supports OPPD substation crews by assisting with daily operations, maintenance, and work preparation tasks. This role helps stage tools, materials, and equipment while maintaining clean, organized, and hazard free work areas. The position also provides basic documentation support and follows established processes to ensure accuracy and compliance. A strong commitment to safety is essential, including adhering to OPPD safety policies, reporting hazards, and initiating stopwork when necessary.

The helper receives clear task directions and participates in on-the-job learning to build foundational skills and support efficient crew workflow.

Core Technical or Functional Operations: Provides assistive support to crews performing substation operations and maintenance. Contributes labor support necessary for qualified personnel to perform electrical tasks. Ensuring assistance aligns with directed work requirements.

Equipment, Tools, Systems, or Process Execution: Assists with non-operational handling, staging, and basic preparation of tools, materials, and equipment. Supports movement and placement of items needed for work processes without independent operation. Ensures readiness of resources for qualified personnel.

Materials, Resources and Work Area Readiness: Helps maintain organized and clean work areas to support safe and efficient operations. Assists with material preparation and staging activities under direction. Supports resource readiness to maintain workflow.

Documentation and Work Management Systems: Provides basic assistance with documentation needs such as gathering information or providing inputs when directed. Supports crew compliance with documentation requirements. Follows established processes for handling information.

Safety, Compliance and Work Controls: Executes the OPPD Safety Manual, policies, and procedures by applying required work controls and hazard control practices in all work environments. Identifies and reports unsafe conditions, initiates stop work when needed, and maintains clean, orderly work areas. Follows applicable compliance requirements to support safe and consistent execution.

Work Direction and Learning: Receives task instruction and participates in on the job learning to enable workflow.

• Demonstrated ability to successfully complete essential duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• A two-year associate's degree in electrical theory or completion of an electrical apprenticeship program, or 4 years of work as an electrician is required for this position.
• Valid Class A Commercial Driver's License to operate company vehicle(s).
• Must qualify for and enter the district's registered apprenticeship program within six months of hire.
• Must be capable of progressing to Electrician, First Class.
• Must be able to successfully pass background checks required to acquire access authorization for access to Offutt Air Force Base, etc.
• Reside within a 35-mile radius of the Substation and System Protection Office.

• Essential Position:
  This position will be required to report to work when business continuity needs are emergent and may be required to work hours beyond an employee's normal shift.
• This position must be available for overtime work and callouts as required to ensure continuance of efficient operation.

Field: Work will be performed outside in a wide variety of weather conditions (snow, rain, heat, cold, wind, etc.), terrain, and other natural environmental hazards as well as pollen and other airborne allergens.

Generation Plant: Work will be performed inside with exposure to industrial building conditions and will be exposed to extreme temperatures, odors, dust, gases, poor ventilation and exposure to sounds. Noise levels may require shouting to be heard.

• Work will be performed in high traffic environments.
• Will work around energies high voltage electrical equipment.
• Will work in construction areas that present many physical hazards.
• Will work at heights.
• Will work in closed or confined spaces.
• Will work around asbestos and lead.
• Work will be where noise levels may require shouting in order to be heard.

Strenuous to extreme physical effort that includes frequent use of heavy objects (e.g., 50+ lbs.) and may also use heavy tools or require strenuous application in awkward positions. Must be capable of performing very strenuous work. Must demonstrate…