Electric Lineman III

City of Union•Union, SC

About The Position

This classification performs skilled journeyman-level work building and maintaining overhead and underground electrical service for the City and surrounding areas. The position helps ensure electricity is supplied at appropriate voltage to residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial properties and responds to power outages. It reports to the Electric/CM Supervisor. The role installs, repairs, and maintains electrical lines, equipment, lighting, substations, meters, and related systems; troubleshoots electrical service and communications problems; maintains rights of way; inspects contractors’ electrical work; and participates in the on-call rotation. It also maintains instruments and controls for water, wastewater, and gas systems, operates and maintains various vehicles and equipment, keeps inventories and records, and processes service and work documentation. Other related duties may be assigned.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Vocational or technical training in electrical work or a related field.
One year of work experience demonstrating the ability to maintain steady employment in any field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience providing the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Possess and maintain a valid South Carolina Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with appropriate endorsement(s).
Possess and maintain Lineworker C certification, Basic Meter Training, and First Aid and CPR certifications.
Demonstrate proficiency in performing the essential functions and the ability to learn, understand, and apply City or departmental policies, practices, and procedures.
Ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and analyze data and relate the analysis to established standards.
Ability to provide guidance, assistance, and interpretation of procedures and standards to others.
Ability to overhaul, restore, renovate, construct, or rebuild equipment and operate and control equipment, machinery, and objects according to prescribed standards.
Ability to use reference, descriptive, and advisory information; perform basic arithmetic and calculations involving decimals, percentages, and fractions; and interpret graphs.
Ability to interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, and schedule-form instructions, apply rational systems, and exercise independent judgment to adapt methods and standards to assigned objectives.
Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity when evaluating information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria.
Ability to perform sustained, moderately physically demanding work involving activities such as climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and handling moderately heavy objects weighing 20–50 pounds.
Ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades, sounds, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals; some tasks require oral communication.
Ability to work in conditions that may include dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, temperature and noise extremes, fire, unsafe structures, heights, confined spaces, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, bright or dim lights, and rude or irate customers.

Responsibilities

Respond to power outages throughout the City electrical system and help maintain continuous electric service at appropriate voltage levels.
Install, repair, and maintain traffic lights, street lights, yard lights, power lines, and electrical equipment as part of a line crew.
Build and maintain high-voltage lines; use bucket trucks; climb poles; install switches and regulators; re-conduct lines; set poles; install primary and secondary lines; and connect or disconnect services.
Install electrical systems and equipment, including underground conduit, electrical lines to buildings and other structures, switches, transformers, wires, meters, and meter boxes.
Maintain and repair substations by checking equipment status, reading breaker amperage and meters, logging information, and resetting phase flags.
Troubleshoot electrical service and communications problems, including performing customer voltage checks, investigating SCADA and fiber systems, coordinating meter testing, assisting with damaged meters, and helping investigate power theft.
Maintain lighting at recreation fields, tennis courts, and basketball courts by replacing bulbs and lenses.
Maintain rights of way and power lines by trimming interfering trees, grinding brush, and dropping lines for other tree trimmers as needed.
Perform rough-in and final electrical inspections of contractor work to verify compliance with established codes and ordinances.
Participate in the on-call rotation and work the cut-on/cut-off list.
Maintain instruments and controls at water treatment and wastewater plants and for gas and water systems, including installing motors and motor controls.
Operate and use equipment, machinery, and tools such as bucket trucks, backhoes, tractors, bush hogs, line trucks, locators, and electrical tools and devices.
Maintain bucket-truck supplies and parts inventory and keep records of tools and meters.
Prepare and process service requests, material requests, meter reports, inventory sheets, cut-off cards, fuel records, work orders, vehicle maintenance reports, and leave slips.
Perform other related duties as required.