Lineworker

Entergy•Gretna, LA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lineworker performs work to maintain and build overhead and underground electrical facilities. Depending on experience and assigned level—from Helper through Senior—the role includes learning, performing, and potentially leading lineworkers in utility distribution construction, material maintenance, aerial work, and underground work. The position requires a Live Safe mindset and mitigation of identified hazards. It is an onsite field and skilled-trade position based in Gretna, Louisiana, with travel of 50% to 75%. The employee may be assigned additional duties, alternate work locations, and additional hours during storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as company needs require. This is a safety-sensitive position subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Six months to four years of distribution-field experience; placement level is determined by the selected candidate’s experience.
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 use physical strength to perform required tasks in all weather conditions.
Ability to work irregular hours and out-of-town assignments as required.
Ability to understand and follow 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 other linemen’s work.
Ability to climb and work on poles of various heights and walk on all types of terrain.

Nice To Haves

Two years of direct distribution linework experience.

Responsibilities

Maintain and build overhead and underground electrical facilities, performing work appropriate to the assigned Lineworker level.
Follow safety tools and practices, identify and mitigate hazards, and maintain an organized, safe jobsite.
Drive trucks of different sizes and types and operate equipment such as aerial buckets, bread vans, and digger derrick trucks.
Read job prints and sketches with reference to distribution standards.
Use and care for rubber goods and personal protective equipment; perform confined-space and bucket rescues and set up and operate aerial baskets and digger derrick trucks.
Lift, rig, tie knots, prepare jobsites and materials, and perform work in manholes and vaults; identify materials and apply 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; construct and maintain transformer banks and secondary voltage applications; learn and perform simple primary-voltage switching up to 34,500 volts.
Construct and frame poles, change out cross-arms, and perform other overhead distribution work.
Build and maintain underground residential distribution circuits; prepare and operate pad-mount switchgear; install and troubleshoot URD circuits; perform switching and tagging of URD primary cable.
Learn and perform three-phase primary work, including safe operation and removal or installation of single- and three-phase reclosers, changing insulators, and installing or replacing GOAB switches.
At Senior level, provide indirect crew leadership and perform advanced switching and work on regulators, capacitor banks, alternate switching schemes, and Intelliruptor devices.
Complete mandated training, including First Aid and CPR, as applicable to the assigned level.
Work irregular hours, travel to out-of-town assignments, and provide additional hours or duties and work at alternate locations during storms, outages, emergencies, or other company needs.