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Aerial Lineman

Aerial lineman handles installing, repairing and maintaining overhead utility lines and equipment.

General Accountabilities

• Operates boom trucks, truck-mounted buckets, and aerial lifts.
• Adheres to safety procedures, such as checking equipment regularly including climbing equipment.
• Performs basic maintenance and minor repairs on equipment.
• Maintain all equipment both before and after the job.
• Load, unload and install poles with proper rigging.
• Check and replace all fluids in equipment/vehicles daily.
• Fills out daily DVIRS.
• Able to operate all tolls related to the industry including hand and power tools of all types.
• Assure that all tools and equipment are accounted for and returned to truck at the end of each day.
• Recognize and identify utility locates and meaning.
• Must be able to read and understand construction prints and specs.
• Knows how to properly set up traffic control-set up all road safety signs, cones and barrels before the job starts and assure all are accounted for at the end of every day.
• Clean and prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.
• Monitors operations to ensure all health and safety standards are met.
• Aligns machines with reference to stakes, markers or guidelines and/or hand signals of other workers.
• Loads, unloads, and identifies building materials, machinery, and tools.
• Knows how to properly use shoring braces and other temporary structures.
• Signal other equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery, equipment, and materials.
• Measures, marks, and records openings and distances where work is located.
• Always have something to do (i.e., grease equipment, clean trucks/trailer/tools, etc) when “down time” is necessary.
• Assist Foreman in any Daily/Job paperwork as necessary.
• Attend all training sessions required by management.
• Clean up all jobsites at the end of each day to assure that all trash is removed and the jobsite looks better than before we started the job.
• Trains other employees in proper techniques, quality specs, and all work related items as needed.
• *The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Associate’s degree or training in a vocational school
• Experience: 1-2 years of related experience
• Licenses/Certifications: Class A CDL (preferred); OSHA 10; For-Hire Endorsement (required); DOT physical (required)

Skills 

• Active listening
• Monitoring
• Critical thinking
• Operation monitoring
• Troubleshooting
• Complex problem solving
• Coordination
• Judgment and decision making
• Team player