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.
Why work for HDP
- Competitive wages
- Benefits package
- Monday to Friday schedule
- No weekends
- Company paid certifications, license and training