Lineworker Helper - Sr

Entergy•New Orleans, LA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lineworker Helper - Sr performs lineworker duties involved in maintaining and building overhead and underground electrical facilities. Depending on experience and assigned level, the role involves learning, performing, and potentially leading lineworkers and material maintenance, as well as carrying out aerial and underground utility distribution construction tasks. Employees are expected to apply a Live Safe mindset and mitigate hazards whenever identified. The position spans Helper through Senior Lineworker duties. These include using and caring for rubber goods and personal protective equipment; operating aerial baskets and digger derrick trucks; carrying out rescue, rigging, secondary-line, overhead primary, and underground distribution work; and performing switching tasks at voltages up to 34,500 volts. Senior-level work includes advanced switching and tasks involving regulators, capacitor banks, alternate switching schemes, and Intelliruptor devices. All levels are responsible for maintaining a safe, organized jobsite and completing mandated training such as First Aid and CPR. This is an onsite field and skilled-trade position based in New Orleans, Louisiana, with travel of up to 25%. The role may require irregular hours, out-of-town assignments, additional hours, alternate locations, and additional duties during storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. It is designated safety-sensitive and subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Six months to four years of experience in a distribution field; placement level is determined by the selected candidate’s experience.
Ability to use physical strength to perform required tasks in all weather conditions.
Ability to take and understand directives and complete tasks with limited supervision.
Ability to plan and lay out work safely and efficiently.
Ability to assume a lead role and direct the work of other linemen.
Ability to climb and work on poles of various heights and walk on all types of terrain.
Valid driver’s license.
Must have and maintain a Class-A CDL or be able to obtain one within six months of employment.
Ability to work irregular hours and out-of-town assignments as required.

Nice To Haves

Two years of direct distribution linework experience.
Valid Class A CDL.

Responsibilities

Maintain and build overhead and underground electrical facilities, including utility distribution construction work.
Perform duties across the Helper through Senior Lineworker levels as assigned based on experience.
Use and care for rubber goods and personal protective equipment properly.
Perform confined-space and bucket rescue tasks and set up and operate aerial baskets and digger derrick trucks.
Lift, rig, and tie knots; prepare jobsites and materials for work in manholes and vaults; identify materials; and follow distribution construction specifications.
Cover secondary lines and perform energized work on secondary-voltage lines; use meters to test and install three- and four-wire secondary lines.
Identify substation and underground equipment.
Perform overhead work, including energized primary cover-up up to 34,500 volts.
Apply transformer theory, including bank installations and tap settings, and construct multiple secondary-voltage applications.
Learn and perform simple primary-voltage switching tasks and applications up to 34,500 volts.
Construct, frame, and change out poles and cross-arms.
Build and maintain underground residential distribution circuits; operate pad-mount switchgear; install and troubleshoot URD circuits; and switch and tag URD primary cable.
Learn three-phase primary work, including safe operation and removal or installation of single- and three-phase reclosers, changing insulators, and installing or replacing Gang Operated Airbrake Switches.
Demonstrate leadership, including indirect crew leadership, and learn and perform advanced primary-voltage switching up to 34,500 volts.
Perform advanced lineworker tasks on regulators, capacitor banks, Alternate Switching Scheme, and Intelliruptor devices.
Keep the jobsite organized and surroundings safe.
Complete mandated training, including First Aid and CPR, as applicable.
Work irregular hours and out-of-town assignments as required, and be available for additional hours, alternate locations, or duties during storms, outages, emergencies, or other company-determined situations.