Journey Lineworker

Overview

Electri Cities of North Carolina partners with certain municipal members to operate and maintain their electric systems in a safe, efficient, reliable, and economical manner as outlined in the individual Operating Agreements. This includes managing/administering the Operating Agreement(s) and other contracts/agreements as necessary for the operation and maintenance of the individual member’s electric system.

• Constructing, maintaining and repairing overhead and underground power transmission and distribution lines, substations and related facilities, troubleshooting power outages and restoring power as safely and efficiently as possible.
• Operates motor vehicles safely and proficiently including but not limited to bucket trucks, line trucks, pickup trucks, etc.
• Operates heavy machinery safely and proficiently including but not limited to backhoes, excavators, trenchers, wire stringing equipment, forklifts, directional boring machines, etc.
• Performs work on lines and equipment energized at high and low voltages at elevated positions.
• Ability to climb wooden poles and other structures when necessary and work from elevated positions for extended periods of time.
• Performs a variety of duties requiring a high degree of skill at the journeyman level in the construction and maintenance of electric power distribution lines and auxiliary equipment.
• Installs and replaces wood, steel and fiberglass poles, crossarms, insulators, switches, capacitors, lightning arresters, faulted secondary and primary conductors, bad transformers, fuses, connectors and other appurtenances,
• Installs single-phase and three-phase overhead and underground transformers, connects single-phase transformers into three-phase banks.
• Installs group operated switches and single and three-phase re-closers.
• Installs and repairs copper and aluminum conductors, both overhead and underground, strings primary and secondary lines and attaches wire allowing for proper sag.
• Installs and maintains switchgears, underground termination cabinets and secondary hand boxes.
• Terminates primary conductors with load-break or 600-amp elbows, and aerial terminations.
• Participates in maintenance of substations and makes substation and switching station repairs when needed. Installs and replaces single-phase voltage regulators, circuit breakers, CT’s and VT’s and other equipment inside substations.
• Interprets relay targets on substation equipment to troubleshoot and repair substation faults; operates substation equipment such as but not limited to circuit breakers, circuit switchers, GOAB switches, MOAB switches, load tap changers, voltage regulators, etc.
• Troubleshoots system abnormalities and determines the most appropriate action to correct them.
• Operates chain saws and other mechanical equipment safely and efficiently in the clearance of trees, brush and other vegetation when necessary.
• Utilizes proper Lockout/Tagout procedures and effective grounding.
• Performs installation of transformers, fuse cutouts, capacitors, primary and secondary meters and metering equipment including CT’s, VT’s and other appurtenances.
• Maintains streetlights, area lights, flood lights and traffic signals.
• Operates and maintains the condition of materials, tools, and equipment used in line work.
• Uses multimeters to test voltage, current and resistance on energized parts of circuits; uses High voltage thumper, Time domain reflectometer (TDR) and other equipment to located faults on underground conductors.
• Ability to work in confined spaces to operate and maintain underground switches and cables.
• Participates in detailed switching orders to transfer load from one source to another, to isolate faulted sections or to restore power.
• Performs a variety of tasks required of a public power line worker.
• Serves as the lead man on the crew in the absence of a crew leader and directs the work of subordinate workers. Instructs and trains lesser experienced employees in the proper performance of duties.
• Adheres to OSHA rules/regulations, APPA Safety Manual and Electricities Standard Operating Procedures.
• Conducts daily job briefings for the crew as required taking into consideration the…