High Voltage Electrician (Lineman)

High Voltage Electrician (Lineman)

As a High Voltage Electrician (Lineman), some of your duties will include but are not limited to:

• Erects power lines consisting of supporting structures, conductors, insulators, and auxiliary equipment. Replaces or installs poles, cross arms, insulators, line hardware, guys and anchors, overhead ground wire, braces, dampers, lightning arrestors, transformers, bird wire, and other auxiliary substation equipment.
• Strings conductors from structure to structure, clamping or tying to insulators, with or without armor rod, in such a manner as to maintain proper sag. Splices wire or conductor when broken and reinstalls.
• Operates and/or uses and maintains all types of equipment and tools common to the utility trade including, but not limited to, multiple-drive vehicles, bull dozers, truck-mounted augers, compressors, winch trucks, truck/trailer combinations, bucket and/or crane or boom trucks, truck-operated winch, and digging tools.
• Works on energized lines (up to 161-kV) requiring the use of safety devices such as, but not limited to, hot line tools, rubber gloves, and mats.
• Performs other duties as required in the daily work, which may include such items as patrolling lines; digging pole and anchor holes; back filling; banking poles; cutting brush, weeds, and trees; and repairing roads, bridges, fences, and gates along rights-of-way.
• Investigates, as requested, transmission line equipment failures/interruptions, diagnosing problems and determining possible remedies (troubleshooting).
• Contacts are with agency personnel, officials and employees of other Federal agencies, and external customers including landowners, contractors, linemen, and representatives of private utilities and like organizations. The purpose of the contacts is to plan, coordinate maintenance and construction work efforts, exchange information, or to resolve operating problems. Contacts are usually working toward mutual goals and generally have cooperative attitudes.

Department of Energy