Journeyman Lineman

Location

Douglasville, GA | United States

Job description

Journeyman Lineman

Job Code: 2023-400-021

Division: Operations

FT/PT Status: Regular Full Time

Position Based In: Hiram

Apply Before: 03/13/2024

Job Summary:

A working crew leader responsible for organizing and directing the dailyactivities of various size crews. Responsible for the installation andmaintenance of overhead and underground lines and equipment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Organizes and directs performance of a crew (staffed at various levels) involved in the installation and maintenance of overhead and underground lines and equipment.
• Installs and maintains street and security lights.
• Responds to outage calls, makes necessary repairs to primary and secondary lines and equipment. Work on energized lines at voltages up to 25KV from bucket truck.
• Ensures compliance with GreyStone Safety Manual/OSHA Standards for self and others.
• Inspects crew’s equipment for safety and maintenance purposes.
• Have job site safe for public, such as road signs, cones, and flagmen.
• Recommends tools and equipment that are needed.
• Builds jobs to REA and GreyStone specifications.
• Must be aware of any changes in REA & GreyStone specifications and DOT rules and regulations.
• Climbs, works out of bucket, pulls wire and hangs transformers as needed to accomplish assigned work.
• Heads a two man, on call trouble crew within the capacity of a working crew leader.
• Occasionally works with other O&E departments as normal work or workload may dictate.
• Completes and maintains all paperwork for crew activity such as: time sheets, staking sheets, and trouble orders.

Required Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High school diploma/equivalent.
• Require at least six years’ experience, four of those years should be as a lineman.
• Must have a valid Georgia commercial driver’s license.
• Applicants hired into this position have a weight restriction due to safety equipment limitations weight cannot exceed 290 lbs.
• Must satisfactorily pass company required physicals and random drug screenings.
• Must be willing to be a member of standby roster and work varied or irregular hours. Must be willing to work rotating shifts and weekends. Must also be available for emergency work when needed.

Physical Demands (if applicable):

Very Heavy Work: Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.Physical Activity of the position includes:

A. Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs,scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.

B. Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

C. Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.

D. Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

E. Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

F. Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

G. Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

H. Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

I. Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.

J. Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

K. Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

L. Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

M. Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers, rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

N. Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

O. Feeling: Perceiving attributes or objects, such as size, shape, temperature, texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

P. Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Q. Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than a 40 db loss § 500 Hz, 1,000 Hz and 2,000 Hz with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through verbal communication, and to make fine discrimination in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

R. Repetitive Motions: Substantial movements (motion) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Physical Conditions of the position includes:

A. The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.

B. The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour.

C. The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour.

D. The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.

E. The worker is subject to vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.

F. The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.

G. The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: Fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases or poor ventilation.

H. The worker is subject to oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.

I. The worker is required to wear a respirator in certain situationsVisual acuity requirements of the position includes:The worker is required to have the visual acuity (color, depth perception, and field vision) to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.

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