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Under general supervision, the Transmission and Distribution Line Worker performs skilled line work in the installation, construction, maintenance and repair of overhead and underground line for power lines and/or high voltage overhead transmission and distribution lines, as well as rigging blocks, splicing wires and operating hydraulic lift buckets, and performs related duties as required.
Job Responsibility:
Installs, repairs, and maintains high tension overhead transmission systems, related feeder lines, towers and poles
performs such maintenance activities when lines are energized as well as de-energized
Maintains, operates, and adjusts electrical transmission and primary power substations ranging from 600 to 230,000 voltage, including circuit breakers, relays, batteries, and controls
Installs and maintains underground and overhead power lines and feeders and related auxiliary equipment
locates and isolates faulty sections and removes, installs and makes corrections where necessary
Installs watt-hour meter systems, connects potential transformers, current transformers, phase shifting transformers, test switches, reactive meters, and demand meters
Maintains, operates, and repairs high voltage street light system
Installs and maintains street lighting systems including circuits, poles, arms, and luminaries
Tests, inspects, repairs, and replaces overhead and underground transmission and distribution lines and circuits
Maintains utility power generation and transmission systems, and related components, including circuit breakers, relays, switches, and fuses, transformers, busses, and underground cables, feeders, and associated equipment
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Two years of verifiable work experience as a journey-level line worker, with pole and transmission systems ranging from 600 to 230,000volts, with responsibility for construction, installation, maintenance and repair of overhead and underground lines
OR Completion of a State certified electrical line apprenticeship program
AND Possession of a current, valid Class C California Driver's license. Positions located at Moccasin require a Class A Driver's license within six (6) months of appointment
positions located in San Francisco require a Class B Driver's license with six (6) months of appointment.