Journey Lineman

Overview

The City of Aztec Electric Department’s mission is to enhance the quality of life, promote economic opportunity and carry out the responsibilities to maintain, protect, and improve the electrical assets owned and operated by the City. We will accomplish this through the delivery of quality service and maintaining a safe and reliable electric utility system.

The City of Aztec receives electrical power at the City of Aztec Substation from a 69 kV transmission line, and City owned solar facility. Five distribution circuits, which combine for over 30 miles of 7.2/12.47Kv lines, distribute electrical power to more than 3,200 residential and commercial customers in the City of Aztec.

The Electric Utility Department handles the maintenance of the substation, solar field, construction and maintenance of distribution and transmission lines, street lighting, extensions to customers, service drops, and the reading and maintenance of customer water and electric meters.

Introduction: This position is responsible for the delivery of safe reliable power to customers through the construction and maintenance of power distribution lines and customer metering for the City of Aztec.

The lineman works under the general supervision of the Electric Superintendent, receiving both verbal and written instructions. Linemen may independently plan and carry out projects, although work practices and procedures are guided by policies and procedures set by management. Work is periodically reviewed during progress and/or upon completion to determine fulfillment of Department objectives, conformance with Federal Regulations, local policies, and acceptable safe work standards.

A Lineman performs highly skilled, journey-level transmission, distribution, and electrical work in the installation, construction, maintenance, and repair of underground and overhead electric transmission, distribution and service lines, transformers, meters, metering equipment, electrical substations, and related equipment.

Work involves moderate physical exertion, heavy lifting, and exposure to inclement weather, as well as the hazardous conditions of working with high-voltage energized lines and equipment.

Primary Supervisory Duties:

•The lineman is directly responsible for the safe and effective operation of distribution lines, transmission lines, customer metering installations, crew members, and the public. Plans, assigns, and reviews all work to be performed. Assignments are given in terms of short-term objectives, basic priorities, schedules for completion, and guidelines to be followed: The lineman’s primary supervisory duties consist of 10-100% of his daily hours. May directly supervise employees on any given project.

Participate in safe effective preventive maintenance, repair, modification, and construction programs for present and future expansion of the Electric Utility.

•Carries out switching procedures requiring outages of power distribution circuits for construction, maintenance, and emergency repairs. Reviews, monitors, and ensures that records are maintained on planned and emergency power outages, including the time of the outage, time service was restored, cause of outages, and actions required to restore power.

•Prepare monthly progress reports and time sheets of activities.

•Schedules electrical equipment inspections. Reviews findings, initiates work orders to correct the deficiencies, establishes priorities for correcting deficiencies, and ensures that the work is accomplished promptly, properly, and safely.

•Schedules operational tool and equipment inspections. Reviews findings, and initiates work orders to correct deficiencies.

Ensure that an active safety program is being followed within the crews, keeps abreast of modern safety practices, ensures that training schedules are maintained, and adheres to prescribed safety regulations.

•Reviews and evaluates practices and procedures and investigates new methods of improving the efficiency of operations. Recommends, in writing, the need for system improvements or operations.

•Trains and reviews the progression of Apprentice training regarding work experience and related instruction.

Troubleshooting

•Locates problems and makes repairs to restore power to customers as quickly as possible in a safe and efficient manner.

Meter Tech & Meter Serviceman

•Inspects electrical service installations on customer's premises.

Make new customer service connections by installing meters, and performing disconnects or reconnects of existing services as requested by customers.

•Reads meters and completes work orders of utility customers.

Other related duties

•Lineman is responsible for keeping an adequate supply of poles, hardware, metering devices, and transformers. Contact the supervisor for additional items as needed.

•The lineman is responsible for maintaining the utility service yard, including inventory, vehicles, parking, facilities, storage, and public access.

•The lineman must be in excellent physical condition due to the amount of time in the field, weather conditions, rough terrain, and long hours.

•Train and instruct Apprentice Lineman and Line Helpers in the trade.

•Install and maintain various forms of power and lighting throughout the City, from holiday decorations to lighting in City Parks, including special events.

•Attend and participate in scheduled safety meetings and/or training.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $41.82 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

Work Location: In person