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0-5 years of experience
Performed daily maintenance and repair of high voltage electrical systems on Eglin AFB, FL and surrounding areas. Used leadership, teamwork, sound judgment and expertise to establish efficient processes that met inflexible organizational goals and timelines in challenging environments.
- Served as Team Lead during restoration of power to base housing units after massive power outages caused by Hurricane Ivan.
- Lead electrician on $1,000M airfield lighting renovation project, including installation, inspection, and implementation.
- Coordinated the planning and inspection of overhead and underground power lines and equipment to ensure continuous power throughout the base.
- Developed individual and team strategies to support simple, safe and effective electrical practices to ensure compliance with Air Force standards.
0-5 years of experience
Installed, inspected, maintained, repaired and modified high and low voltage transmission and distribution electrical grid.
- Provided electrical system support to 2,209 facilities and 22 Space Launch Complexes
- Maintained interior, exterior, overhead and underground electrical distribution systems
- Advised supervisors/engineers on defective system components and their impact on mission
0-5 years of experience
- Performed all safety and construction requirements on overhead lines and equipment, including underground work, storm work and scheduled outages.
- Participated in pre-job planning, offering suggestions for safety and performance.
- Documented all time and materials as required.
- Recognized on Job Performance Reports for workability, safety and job knowledge.
6-10 years of experience
Started as a laborer and worked up to Journeyman Lineman.
- Achieved certifications for climbing, Hot Line-Rubber Gloving training, Underground Electrical Troubleshooting, and more.
- Completed Certified Apprenticeship program.
- Manage a team and train others on regular basis.
- Completed OSHA 10-hour Course.
- Certified for CPR, First Aid, and AED.
- Have acquired Class-A CDL.
- Skilled in driving the various vehicles necessary for work.
0-5 years of experience
Worked on crews in Colorado and California performing such duties as smith pole change outs, re-conducting, stringing, sagging and substation re-routes on 69kv, 115kv and 230kv lines.
- Hot stick work on energized 69kv and 115kv.
- Set poles with the aid of helicopters.
- Operate backhoe, crane, tensioner, tuggers, bulldozer, front end loaders, diggers, bucket trucks and associated line equipment.
- Replace insulators using baker boards and/or ladders.
- Install splices, dead-ends and sleeve out conductor.
0-5 years of experience
I was responsible for the operational needs and minor maintenance on CSU’s distribution system. I worked with Planning and Engineering, Construction & Maintnance, and Distribution Control. I performed a wide variety of technical duties, and was responsible for ensuring safety compliance on job sites and was subject to stand by duty. As a Line Specialist Cable Technician I:
- Assisting in the construction, maintenance and removal of underground and overhead power lines and equipment
- Ensuring quality of work performed in compliance with standard operating policies
- Performing clean up and safe handling of hazardous waste from system equipment
- Performing Distribution and Transmission Switching to accommodate repairs and clearances
- Setting up clearances and hotline holds for emergency power restoration
- Ensuring compliance with safety regulations and work procedures
- Reviewing technical documents and designs for accuracy
6-10 years of experience
Obtained Journeyman classification on January 21, 2008
- Safely able to glove 13.2kv and 4.8kv; and 33kv hot stick work
- Cleaned and maintained tools, test equipment, and motor vehicle
- Dig holes and trenches; install guy wire and sag-in conductors
- Climbed poles and ladders; and mixed pole foam to enable equipment installation
- Assist with the initiation of new overhead or underground services in single-phase, three-phase, double-circuit, energized or de-energized lines
- Answered customers inquiries and complaints
- Measured, cut, spliced, connected and installed wires and cables
0-5 years of experience
Construct and maintain distribution and transmission electrical systems (de-energized and energized lines)
- Locates, pulls, removes, splices and terminates cables
- Training and supervision of apprentice linemen
- Switches or reroutes electrical systems using proper sequencing and connections
- Preparing materials for line construction
- Training of Apprentices
- Uses hand and power tools, climbs poles and towers, works at heights on poles/towers/aerial lifts, works with live circuits, climbs ladders, work in manholes and confined spaces
- Operates line construction vehicles and equipment including wirepullers, bucket and boomtrucks, trenchers, backhoes and various hand tools.
0-5 years of experience
- Responsible for entire base distribution which was 25% underground and 85% overhead.
- Lead Lineman when it came to working on the high voltage 6.6 airfield lighting circuit and various runway equipment.
- Oversaw contractor installing power lines on base for quality control.
6-10 years of experience
Crew Leader
- Single phase and three phase underground switching
- Installing new underground transformers, single phase and three phase – 120/240, 120/208, 277/480
- Installing overhead transformers single phase and three phase 120/240, 120/208, 277/480
- New pole line construction
- Car pole accident and outage calls
0-5 years of experience
Performed and constructed three phase overhead
- Worked as general foreman and ran a safe crew contained of apprentices and journeyman
- Operated underground fault locator
- Repair underground primary and secondary wire
- Worked safely to restore underground power
- Completed work orders, time cards, JSA, and switching procedures efficiently
0-5 years of experience
Performed energized work on both overhead and underground conductors.
- Instructed apprentices.
- Installed new overhead and underground distribution powerlines.
- Supervised a crew of up to 8 people, including Journeymen, Operators, Apprentices, and Groundsmen.
0-5 years of experience
Maintained airport runway lighting and repairs to include new construction
- Installed base cans all sizes, elevated lights, edge lights, obstruction lights, changed out inset light and replaced or repaired transformers and connector
- Dug trenches for pipes
- Dug out the holes for base cans and added the basket to go around base cans and ground reds and wire
- Installed power wire #8 and SKU
- Installed signs panels and concrete pads and signs
- Installed 80 ft. pole lights
6-10 years of experience
Over the course of the six years, I progressed from apprentice to journeyman lineman.
During that time I installed, repaired and maintained overhead electrical power lines and auxiliary equipment.
Responsibilities included:
- Maintaining and repairing overhead distribution or transmission lines
- Observing and practicing all safety policies and bulletins
- Running new wire and maintaining old wire
- Installing and maintaining insulators
- Installing and maintaining transformers and other equipment
- Setting of towers and poles
- Supervising groundmen and apprentices
10+ years of experience
Opened switches and attached grounding devices in order to remove electrical hazards from disturbed and fallen lines and to
facilitate repairs.
- Traveled in trucks, helicopters and airplanes to inspect lines for freedom from obstruction and adequacy of insulation.
- Climbed poles and used truck-mounted buckets to access
- Adhered to safety practices and procedures, such as checking
- Attached cross arms, insulators and auxiliary equipment to poles
- Replaced damaged poles with new poles and straightened the poles.
- Currently assigned to Trouble Truck operations.
10+ years of experience
- Responsible for safety and technical training of station personnel.
- Managed all regional aerial construction projects and personnel.
- Achieved progressive promotions from entry level into division management.
6-10 years of experience
Constructed and maintained overhead and underground electrical distribution system. This included pole climbing, digger derrick/bucket truck operating, plowing, trenching, and underground boring. Excavating equipment and tractor/trailer experience
- Worked a rotational on-call schedule
- Crew leader and trained apprentices
- Logged 2,000 hours as a fill-in for construction supervisor which consisted of 30 lineman, 2 contracting crews, and up to 3 outposts on any given day
- Scheduled work to be completed and delegated work priority
- Staked jobs for construction and maintenance
- Prioritized and delegated for outages and emergency work
- Preformed crew and follow-up inspections
- All duties of Journeyman Lineman
- Familiarity with IBEW
10+ years of experience
- Professionally performed line construction and repair of overhead and underground distribution services in areas of residential, commercial and industrial service structures from the substation to the end user.
- Participated in mutual assistance emergency response efforts as needed nationwide due to catastrophic events. Highly trained in reliability inspection and restoration troubleshooting processes.
- 16 years in the construction workplace with no loss time accidents, vehicle accidents or doctor cases. Exercises the highest regard for electrical safety practices. Trainer of utility line construction ground-men, equipment operators and both hot and cold apprentice personnel.
- Certified in the use of bucket truck aerial devices, boom trucks and derrick diggers, many hydraulic tools systems and most field tools and apparatus for the utility construction industry. Extensive understandings of the overall operations of the utility infrastructure operations, electrical field switching protocol, relay controlled automation systems and emergency backup/critical load systems.
0-5 years of experience
Changing out energized poles, and climbing
- Voltage troubleshooting, repair, adjusting regulators, coordinating with SCADA and Substation operations
- Inspection, diagnostic, and repair of substation breakers, reclosers, and switches
- Communicating with customers and achieving customer satisfaction through scheduling and coordination
- Using blueprints, maps, and schematics to complete jobs in an efficient and professional manner
- Working abnormal hours and through the night, and in all elements
- Experience working under OSHA and with Municipal Laws and Regulations
6-10 years of experience
Single and three phase overhead lines, as well as underground systems
- Installation, commission, and maintenance of underground distribution system
- Team Leader for a special equipment crew specializing in automated reclosers, voltage regulators, and automated capacitor banks
- Familiar with various types of relays and controls used in a distribution system
- Knowledge of all electrical tools and testing equipment associated with overhead distributions
- Trainer for the lineman apprenticeship program
0-5 years of experience
Maintain overhead electric transmission and distribution lines.
- Removal of transmission and distribution lines on wood poles.
- Installing, removing, repairing and maintaining poles and structure.
- Work on iron poles, isolates towers and mats/vaults that are energize 15 kV primary distribution voltages.
- Perform work required in the construction, operation and maintenance area.
- Maintain and repairing energized and energized lines.
- Diagnose trouble and solve the problems encountered.
- Troubleshooting customer’s distribution vault/mat.
0-5 years of experience
Assist with installation, maintenance, operation and repair of overhead and underground electrical power
lines and systems
- Frame and set poles, occasionally using rigging to set poles in various settings and conditions.
- Climb poles, hook up house services off ladder.
- Build material for linemen, load trucks with material for daily jobs.
- Experience working with digger derrick, Alley Cat machine, chainsaw, hoist, and snatch blocks, blocks,
- Experience working with dead and live primary and secondary conductors.
- Test, ground, tag, sag and splice wires.
- Wire, hang, and test transformers.
- Travel out of state for storm restoration.
- Worked as groundman from Fall 2010- March 2012.
0-5 years of experience
Provide, restore and maintain power to residential and commercial buildings
- Handled dangerous equipment with caution
- Troubleshoot power problems by climbing the tower and poles and working underground
- CDL class A
- CPR certification
- First Aid certification
- Dust control certification
6-10 years of experience
- Currently work as a Serviceman.
- Analyze customer accounts and make decisions from that information.
- Troubleshoot outages, set electric meters, patrol line, investigate customer tampering, and maintain street lights.
- Serve on an employee safety committee.
- Coordinate jobs with engineering, overhead, underground, meter shop, and substation departments.
- Perform supervisory responsibilities when needed.
0-5 years of experience
Install wire on steel poles and lattice structure
- Dead work on 138kv and 345kv lines
- Operate cranes with man basket attached
- Trained on and installed Implode sleeves and dead ends
- Dead end double bundle wire
- Tower mods on lattice towers
0-5 years of experience
- Journeyman Lineman
- Self motivated and excellent manager of time
- Cooperative team player
- Learn new tasks quickly
- Perform repetitive work with a positive attitude
- Adapt easily to change
- Excellent verbal and listening skills
6-10 years of experience
Ensure regular power supply to the community.
- Provide, restore, and maintain power to residential and commercial buildings.
- Overhead and underground distribution.
- Trim trees out of utility right of way.
- Experienced working on energized lines.
10+ years of experience
Adhere to safety practices and procedures, such as checking equipment regularly and erecting barriers around work areas, while installing, maintaining, and repairing electrical distribution and transmission systems, including poles, conduits, cables, wires, and any related equipment, such as transformers, circuit breakers, and switches.
- Identify defective sectionalizing devices, circuit breakers, fuses, voltage regulators, transformers, switches, relays, or wiring, using wiring diagrams and electrical-testing instruments.
- Climb poles or use truck-mounted buckets to access equipment, open switches, or attach grounding devices to remove electrical hazards from disturbed or fallen lines or to inspect and test power lines and auxiliary equipment to locate and identify problems using reading and testing instruments then facilitate repairs.
- Perform miscellaneous line duties not limited to: tree trimming, insulating, splicing, trenching, miscellaneous connects & disconnects and meter installations.
10+ years of experience
Build, maintain, and erect overhead and underground power lines.
- training in safety, first aid, CPR, rigging, bucket and pole top rescue.
- Live line work, grounding procedures and clearances/hold orders, and PPE.
- Proficient in pole setting, wire stringing, climbing, cable installing, primary and secondary connections, tree trimming.
0-5 years of experience
Lineman Apprentice (completed apprenticeship January 2010)
- Transmission and distribution maintenance
- Handled urgent call outs
- Re-conductor jobs
- Extensive rubber gloving and stick work
10+ years of experience
- Performed construction and maintence on distribution and transmission lines
- Supervised substation construction
- Performed pole climbing, hot stick work, live wire bucket work
- Preformed nationwide storm restoration
10+ years of experience
- Installing and maintaining overhead utilities using live line work methods
- Extensive use of bucket trucks, digger derricks, rear-property pole setters, and rear-property buckets
- Troubleshooting faults in electrical circuits
- Training and supervising new apprentices throughout the duration of their apprenticeships
- Over 1,000 hours worked while upgraded to Foreman position
- Working various shifts – including overnights and double-shifts – in all types of weather conditions
- Providing mutual assistance to other utilities in various locations due to storm-related damages
- Some underground electrical work
6-10 years of experience
- Worked the 1999 Ice Storm Damage in Texas Panhandle
- Worked the 2003 Ice Storm Damage in Oklahoma
- Worked the 2004 Hurricane Damage in Florida
- Worked the 2005 Hurricane Damage in Houston
- Safety Chairman for the Borger District in 2000 and 2001
- Served as Safety Advisory Group Chairman for Texas North in 2002
- Member of the Texas/New Mexico/Oklahoma Accident Reduction Team in 2003 and 2004
- Served as the Team Lead for the SPS Accident Reduction Council in 2006
- Regularly upgraded to foreman during absences and overtime situations
0-5 years of experience
Licensed in Underground Cable Curing
- Rebuild primary terminators and elbows
- Switch underground cables to establish opening in order to complete maintenance and curing process in primary and feeder cable
- Travel when necessary
6-10 years of experience
Tower and Pole setting.
- Maintenance and repair overhead distribution of transmission lines
- Stringing new wire and maintenance of old wire
- Installment, removal, transfer, repair and or maintenance of insulators, cross arms, pins and transformers, including primary and secondary transformers.
- Preform emergency repairs
- Line, poles and equipment inspection for signs of damage or wear.
- Ground man and Apprentices supervising
- Repair and troubleshooting of energized or de-energized power lines
- Assembly and installation of substation
0-5 years of experience
- Instruct students to: Recognize safety as the first and foremost guide to practice. Produce reliable results that blend safety and performance into a unified work practice. Accept personal responsibility to comply with all laws, performance standards, and service area requirements. Operate and maintain vehicles, tools and equipment as a personal practice. Communicate with others to plan and deliver a work process.
- Final two terms focus on pre-apprentice lineman training, groundworker skills and pole climbing basics.
- Successful completion of this program should enable students to demonstrate the core knowledge and hands-on skills needed to acquire entry level positions within the utility industry.
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