Electric Lineman III

City of Union; Union (SC); On-site; USD 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Union is seeking a skilled journeyman lineworker to maintain overhead and underground electrical service for the City and surrounding areas. You will respond to outages, install and repair street lights, transformers, and primary/secondary lines, and ensure safe, reliable power delivery.

The role requires a High School diploma or GED with vocational electrical training and a valid South Carolina CDL with endorsements, plus Lineworker C and Basic Meter Training; First Aid/CPR are also

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; vocational/technical training in electrical or related field preferred.
• One year of work experience showing ability to maintain steady employment; or equivalent combination of education and training.

Responsibilities

• Maintains continuous electric service to customers, responds to power outages citywide.
• Installs, repairs, and maintains street lights, power lines, and equipment; climbs poles and operates bucket trucks.
• Installs conduits, transformers, meters, and related electrical infrastructure for new and existing properties.
• Maintains substations; reads meters, logs data, and assists with power quality monitoring.
• Performs rough-ins and final inspections to ensure compliance with codes and ordinances.
• Participates in on-call rotation for after-hours outage response.
• Maintains equipment and inventory for bucket trucks, meters, and related tools.

Skills

Electrical safety

Linework

Outage response

SCADA awareness

Education

High school diploma or GED

Vocational/technical electrical training

Tools

Bucket trucks

Meters

Electrical testing tools

Job description

Description

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Purpose of Classification:

The purpose of this classification is to perform skilled journeyman level work in all phases of building and maintenance overhead and underground electrical service for the City and surrounding areas. Ensures electricity is supplied at the appropriate voltage to residential, commercial, institutional and industrial properties. Responds to electrical power outages. Reports to the Electric/CM Supervisor.

Essential Functions:

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

Ensures continuous flow of electric to customers at the appropriate voltage levels: responds to power outages throughout the City electrical system at all times.

Installs, repairs, and maintains traffic lights, City street lights, yard lights, electrical power lines and equipment as member of a line crew: builds and maintains high voltage lines; utilizes bucket trucks; climbs poles; installs switches and regulators; re-conducts electrical lines; sets poles; installs primary and secondary lines; connects and disconnects services, etc.

Installs electrical systems and equipment, such as conduit for underground wiring, electrical power lines to new buildings, houses and other structures, switches and transformers, wires, meters, and meter boxes.

Maintains and repairs substations: conducts status checks on substation equipment; reads amperage on substation breakers; logs information; resets phase flags; and reads meters for usage

Troubleshoots electrical service and communications problems: performs voltage checks for customers; investigates and evaluates supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, fiber, etc.; coordinates testing schedule for electric meters; assists meter readers with damaged meters; and assists with investigating power theft.

Maintains lighting system for recreation fields, tennis courts, and basketball courts: replaces bulbs and lenses.

Maintains rights of way and power lines: trims trees if they interfere with electrical lines; grinds brush; and drops lines for other tree trimmers as needed.

Performs rough-in and final electrical inspections of work performed by electrical contractors to ensure compliance with established codes and ordinances.

Participates in the on-call rotation schedule: works cut-on/cut-off list.

Maintains instruments and controls at the Water Treatment, Wastewater plants, and for the Gas and Water systems: installs motors and motor controls.

Operates and utilizes various equipment, machinery and tools including bucket trucks, backhoes, tractors, bush hog, line truck, locators, various electrical tools and devices, etc.

Maintains inventory of supplies and parts of bucket trucks: maintains records of tools and meters.

Prepares and processes service requests, material requests, meter reports, inventory sheets, cut off cards, fuel records, work orders, vehicle maintenance reports, and leave slips.

Additional Functions:

Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

High school Diploma or GED required, with vocational or technical training in electrical or a related field; supplemented by one year of work experience that shows an ability to maintain steady employment in any field; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Specific License or Certification Required:

Must possess and maintain a valid South Carolina Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) including appropriate endorsement(s). Must possess and maintain the following additional certifications or licensures: Lineworker C; Basic Meter Training; First Aid and CPR.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities:

Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all City or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position.

Performance Aptitudes:

Data Utilization:

Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.

Human Interaction:

Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization:

Requires the ability to overhaul, restore, renovate, construct, and/or rebuild equipment, machinery, or objects, requiring adherence to prescribed standards and specifications. Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of the same equipment, machinery, and/or objects.

Verbal Aptitude:

Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude:

Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.

Functional Reasoning:

Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

Situational Reasoning:

Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

ADA Compliance:

Physical Ability:

Tasks require the regular and sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and that generally involves lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds).

Sensory Requirements:

Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors:

Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, temperature and noise extremes, fire, unsafe structures, heights, confined spaces, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, bright/dim lights, or rude/irate customers.

The City of Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.