Lineworker Helper-Sr - New Orleans LA

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Job Summary: The ability to perform all aspects of the Lineworker job function including but not limited to the day-to-day aspects of maintaining and building overhead and underground electrical facilities. The ability to perform work in enclosed spaces, manholes, and vaults. Responsible various levels of learning, performing, and/or leading other lineworkers, material maintenance as well as, up to and including, aerial and underground work including utility distribution construction tasks. Working with a Live Safe mindset in all tasks; ensuring to mitigate hazards where identified.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

Lineworker Helper: Learning and understanding human performance and safety tools and their usage in day-to-day work. Driving of different sizes and types of trucks. Operation of various pieces of equipment, including Aerial Bucket, Bread Vans, and Digger Derrick Trucks. Read and understand job prints and sketches with reference to distribution standards.

Lineworker I: Proper use and care of all rubber goods and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Ability to perform confined space and bucket rescue tasks and properly set up and operate aerial baskets and digger derrick trucks. Ability to lift, rig and tie knots to set up, jobsite and material for work in manholes and vaults, identifying materials and understanding distribution construction specifications. Ability to properly cover up secondary lines and perform energized work on secondary voltage lines. Ability to use meters to perform tests and install 3 and 4 wire secondary lines. Ability to identify substation and underground equipment.

Lineworker II: Ability to perform underground tasks, including energized primary cover up to 34,500 volts. Ability to understand transformer theories including bank installations, tap settings, and identifying and constructing multiple secondary voltage applications. Ability to learn and perform simple primary voltage switching (up to 34,500 volts) tasks and applications. Ability to learn and perform work including, troubleshooting, splicing, and repair on energized underground secondary cable (120/208) circuits. Ability to learn and identify Network Grids. Ability to learn and perform splicing of primary underground cable.

Lineworker III: Ability to perform all tasks included in Helper through Lineworker II. Ability to build and maintain underground residential and network grid distribution circuits, including but not limited to, prepare/operate pad mount switchgear, install and troubleshoot URD circuits and switching/tagging URD primary cable. Ability to learn three phase primary tasks to include safe operation and removal/installation of automatic transfer switches and manual switching schemes. Ability to learn and perform switching of 3 phase distribution circuits in vaults and substations. Ability to learn and perform troubleshooting, repair, and phasing of network protectors (120/208V).

Lineworker Sr: Ability to perform all tasks include in Helper through Lineworker III. Demonstrate strong Leadership capabilities including indirect crew leadership. Ability to learn and perform advanced primary voltage switching (up to 34,500 volts) tasks and applications. Ability to perform advanced Lineworker tasks including construction of vaults, locate and correct backfeed situations, troubleshoot and repair energized 277/480V network protectors, and automatic transfer switches. Ability to install communication equipment (Secondary Monitoring) in vaults. Ability to perform complex troubleshooting of underground circuits using VLF, capacitor discharge, TDR, and Arc Reflexional Methods. Knowledge and understanding of network protector relay schemes and Secondary Mesh Network Systems.

All levels must be able to perform the following: Maintaining a well-organized jobsite to ensure the surroundings are safe. Learning, completing, and performing (Lineworker I-Sr) (as necessary) all mandated training, such as but not limited to, First Aid, CPR, etc.