Title:  Overhead Distribution Lineman B1

Date:  Jul 25, 2024
Location: 

Longview, TX, US, 75601

Company:  Linetec Services, LLC (S4)
Description: 

Who We Are

A career built on Solid Ground means you work for a growing leader in a stable industry. With Linetec Services, you are part of a team working on the electric infrastructure critical for hundreds of thousands of people. With competitive pay from day one, paid training, and opportunities for advancement, working at Linetec Services is more than a job – it’s a career.

 

As a Lineman B1 you will build and maintain multiphase energized facilities primary with supervision from Journeyman or above. Experience required is third year first, six months.

What You'll Do

  • Work on utility poles and fixtures on energized situations
  • Demonstrate proper cover application, handling energized multiphase primary conductors and working around covered multiphase lines
  • Frame transformer banks, rotate three phase secondary/services and troubleshoot overhead lines
  • Work around covered multiphase primary equipment
  • Adhere to safety performance requirements
  • Introduction to tree trimming, multimeter operations, using line test equipment, cut-outs and reclosures, advanced rigging, line repair with rubber gloves
  • Perform other responsibilities as requested by leadership

What You'll Have

  • Minimum 3 years experience in the electrical powerline industry
  • 2 years as an Apprentice Lineman
  • All the knowledge, skills and abilities required for a Lineman C2
  • Understand basic electricity
  • Knowledge of proper use, care and maintenance of hot sticks
  • Pass evaluation of competency prior to promotion and activity in the Apprenticeship Training Program

What You'll Get

  • Benefit Package including Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
  • 401K w/ Company Match
  • Voluntary Life & AD&D Insurance and Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
  • Vacation/Sick Time and Paid Holidays
  • Potential Bonus Opportunities
  • Career Development Opportunities
  • Employee Discounts
  • Weekly Payroll

Work Environment

  • Work sites are outdoors in potentially extreme weather conditions
  • All worksite safety instructions are written and spoken in English; must be fluent in English
  • Work includes prolonged and repeated: lifting (including overhead, up to 50lbs); standing; climbing; kneeling; reaching and feeling; crouching and crawling
  • Work is performed within the “red zone” of heavy equipment
  • Working safely requires quick/accurate hand-eye coordination and the ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner

Legal Stuff

  • Pass pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens
  • Provide valid US work authorization documents for E-Verify
  • Satisfactory results of pre-employment background check results
  • Valid driver’s license with clean driving record is preferred
  • Pre-employment medical fit-for-duty test; hold/obtain DOT medical card
  • With the health and safety of our employees, customers and the communities we serve in mind, all candidates who receive an offer of employment will be required to complete a COVID-19 risk assessment; your responses will help us determine an employment start date

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Commitment

This job description is subject to change at any time. It reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, and does not exclude or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Centuri and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.  Centuri will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a test or job interview) if so requested.

 

Centuri is a Department of Transportation regulated employer. Certain safety-sensitive positions are covered under the DOT Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations, 49 CFR Part 40. It is important to note that marijuana remains a drug listed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. It remains unacceptable for any safety-sensitive employee subject to drug testing under the company’s Drug Free Workplace Policy to use or test positive for marijuana.


Nearest Major Market: Longview