High-Voltage Lineman: Power Delivery Specialist

ALASKA POWER ASSOCIATION; Ketchikan (AK); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Ketchikan's Electric Division seeks a Journeyman Lineman to install and maintain power lines and equipment for the Ketchikan Public Utilities system. Under general supervision, you will work on distribution and transmission lines, up to 115,000 volts, in overhead and underground configurations.

Duties include pole setting, transformer and switchgear maintenance, operating boom and bucket trucks, climbing poles, installing grounds, and reading electrical drawings.

Qualifications

• Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade and successful indentured apprenticeship.
• Two years of electric utility maintenance experience.
• Must possess a valid Commercial Driver's License.
• Must hold Alaska Journeyman Lineman Certificate of Fitness.
• Forklift Operator certification preferred or required.

Responsibilities

• Digs, sets and frames transmission and distribution poles; may be required to make hot sets into voltages up to 115,000 volts; installs transformers and builds transformer banks.
• Strings primary conductors through energized circuits of voltages up to 115,000 volts in overhead and underground construction, operation and maintenance on distribution and transmission lines.
• Transfers conductors, devices, and apparatus of voltages up to 115,000 volts.
• Operates equipment normally associated in the construction and maintenance of transmission and distribution lines, including but not limited to boom trucks, bucket trucks, and backhoes; performs maintenance on transformers and switchgear devices in substations.
• Climbs utility poles and steel structures.
• Installs and maintains 3-phase transformers.
• Installs and maintains both primary and secondary underground circuits.
• Installs proper grounds while working on de-energized transmission and distribution circuits.

Skills

Electrical distribution systems

Pole climbing

High voltage up to 115,000 volts

Transformers and switchgear

Safe operation of boom/bucket trucks

Reading electrical drawings/maps

Education

High school diploma and indentured apprenticeship completion

Tools

Forklift operation

Commercial Drivers License (CDL)

Lineman tools & equipment handling

Job description

City of Ketchikan's Electric Division seeks a Journeyman Lineman to install and maintain power lines and equipment for the Ketchikan Public Utilities system. Under general supervision, you will work on distribution and transmission lines, up to 115,000 volts, in overhead and underground configurations.

Duties include pole setting, transformer and switchgear maintenance, operating boom and bucket trucks, climbing poles, installing grounds, and reading electrical drawings.