Journey Line Technician

Position Type: Full-time; Non-Exempt
Hourly Starting Pay Range: $35.41-40.06; Pay depending on experience
Closing Date: Open until filled.

About This Opportunity:

Performs intermediate skilled technical work installing, maintaining and repairing overhead and underground power transmission and distribution lines and related facilities, operating equipment, troubleshooting faults and power outages, and related work as required. Work is performed under the limited supervision of the Electric Crew Supervisor.

Schedule: 

• Regular work hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 
• This position requires participation in a rotating on-call/standby schedule, during which the employee must be reachable and available to respond to after-hours emergency service needs.

What we offer: 

Excellent benefit package includes health, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, retirement pension with Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, Section 457 plan, Roth IRA, and 24 hour access to onsite fully equipped fitness center. Full-time employees accrue paid vacation and paid sick leave from hire.

Essential Functions:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Performs installations, maintenance and repairs on low and high voltage transmission and distribution lines. 
• Operates a variety of utility vehicles and equipment including line truck, bucket truck, digger, boom, compressor, test equipment, etc. 
• Sets and frames poles; climbs poles; hangs transformers, pulls wire; wires up secondaries. 
• Installs new service; performs required line work on energized and de-energized circuits. 
• Installs and maintains primary and secondary cable, both underground and overhead; troubleshoots power outages. 
• Assists with the installation, maintenance and repair of street lights, traffic signals, stadium lighting and other facilities. 
• Participates in current and on-going safety training, maintenance of standards and equipment checks and maintenance. 
• Assists with a variety of emergency problems, stand-by and trouble calls.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Thorough knowledge of the practices, methods, equipment, materials and tools used in the erection and maintenance of electric lines. 
• Thorough knowledge of electric line construction and maintenance and the hazards encountered with the work and the safety precautions to be taken. 
• Thorough knowledge in reading maps. 
• Ability to understand and carry out complex oral and written instructions. 
• Ability to climb poles. 
• Ability to make arithmetic computations. 
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates and subordinates.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or GED 
• Considerable experience as an apprentice line technician working with high voltage, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Special Requirements:

• Possession of a Class A commercial driver’s license valid in the State of Tennessee.
• Completion of Apprentice Lineman training upon hire.

Physical Requirements:

• This work requires regular exertion of up to 25 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 50 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 100 pounds of force. 
• Work regularly requires standing, walking, speaking or hearing, hands and finger dexterity, handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms and repetitive motions, frequent sitting, climbing or balancing, pushing or pulling and lifting and occasionally requires stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling. 
• Work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision. 
• Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly. 
• Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound. 
• Work requires visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using measuring devices, assembly or fabrication of parts within arm’s length, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities. 
• Worker is regularly exposure to outdoor weather conditions and exposure to the risk of electrical shock and frequent working near moving mechanical parts and working in high, precarious places. 
• Work is generally in a loud noise location (e.g. heavy traffic, large earth-moving equipment).