AERIAL LINEMAN

Title: Aerial Lineman

The job of an aerial lineman (or helicopter lineman) includes installing and maintaining overhead power lines or cabling for electrical grids.

Job Description

Ensure health and safety is the number one goal by following policies, procedures and acting in a safe manner at all times
Reads and interprets work orders, specifications, and engineering drawings to determine work to be done in a task sequence.
Performs construction work including but not limited to digging holes, climbing ladders on poles, placing, and removing the cable, stringing wire/cable from pole to pole, and laying cable and conduit in the ground.
Ability to operate power equipment such as compressors, pumps, blowers, hydraulic diggers, and hydraulic aerial lifts mounted on trucks.
Uses test equipment to check for gas in manholes; may be required to empty water and other debris from manholes.
Dismantles, moves, and removes aerial, underground, or building wire, cable-associated equipment, and hardware.
Connects wires and cables to terminals and attaches/detaches various kinds of hardware to wires, cables, buildings, or poles.
Responds to and participates in emergency and outage situations that require heavy construction capabilities.
Able and willing to work outdoors and in inclement weather conditions.
Completes daily production reports and As-Built documentation on prints.
Repairs and maintains major cable systems and structures such as broken lashing, replacing, or re-sagging aerial strand, pole transfers, down-guys, aerial to underground conversion, substructure repairs, and cable replacements.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications and Skills

Must have a valid driver’s license and transportation.
CDL - Class A, B or C preferred
Must have 2 years of recent experience.
Extensive knowledge of approved practices, procedures, tools, and materials used in telecom line construction work
Identify differences in wire and cable size.
Required to lift moderately heavy equipment, such as telephone lines; climb structures; and stand for long periods of time.
Ability to work in a confined space and at high elevations (poles, hydraulic lift buckets, ladders.
The work often requires that you drive utility vehicles and work outdoors.
Must work under challenging weather conditions, such as in snow, wind, rain, and extreme heat and cold
Must be able to work in aerial buckets that have a restriction of 300 pounds with PPE & tools.
Ability to lift and move up to 70 pounds, including the ability to carry, climb and operate an extension ladder (approx. 28 ft high and 75 pounds)
Must be able to work in a variety of physical positions like sitting, squatting, standing, walking, climbing, etc.

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