Experienced Lineworker-Maxwell

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Resides within or willing to relocate within a reasonable response time distance (approx. 15 minutes) from the reporting location.
• Ensures that trucks, tools, and assigned equipment are properly used, and maintained.
• Climbs poles and operates out of bucket truck.
• Operate and maintain all line equipment.
• Bypass breakers in substations and downstream devices.
• Performs transmission switching with Generation and Transmission provider.
• Provides training and leadership for Apprentice Linemen.
• Ensures that all safety procedures and precautions are followed.
• Occasionally performs supervisory activities.
• Follows Cooperative, NESC, NEC, REA, OSHA, state, and other regulatory agency procedures and rules in the performance of all work.
• Satisfies callout rotation, duties, and responsibilities.
• Performs all necessary activities in construction, trouble shooting and maintenance of energized, and de-energized, overhead and underground distribution lines.
• Patrols lines, identifies, repairs, or replaces defective materials, equipment or unsafe conditions, and notifies supervisor if necessary.
• Required to be on-call, available to work weekends, holidays and non-standard hours as needed.
• Maintain professional working relationships with all employees, members, and vendors at all times.
• Maintain regular attendance; arrives to work on time and is ready to work.
• Use safe work practices at all times and in all situations.
• Must be able to appropriately handle confidential information and act within the practices established by the Bluebonnet Red Flag policy.

Tools and Equipment Used:

• Office Equipment including computer, printer, copier, fax, etc.
• Required to drive a cooperative vehicle.
• Required to operate heavy equipment.
• According to established business need, must maintain a mobile phone and appropriate communication plan.

Physical Demands:

• Requires repetitive motion of hands and fingers such as dialing and keyboarding.
• Will work on pole or in bucket, reaches and bends to perform work on the pole usually using hand tools weighing as much as 20 lbs.
• Climbs a pole with belt and equipment or hand tools weighing 40 – 50 lbs.
• Pushes and pulls transformers for proper placement for installation.
• Loads cable and other materials onto truck at warehouse.
• Operates hydraulic or manual tamp when backfilling dirt around poles.
• Clears brush in utility easement.
• Performs some digging when installing underground lines.

Work Environment:

• Extended time spent outdoors in extreme weather conditions.
• May work at heights up to 100 + feet above ground.
• Works in high light (broad daylight) and no or low light conditions – using hand held lantern or spot lights.
• Works in areas with possible exposure to poison oak, poison ivy and insect stings.
• Works in potentially hazardous conditions caused by pets and wildlife in or near the work site.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Graduation from high school or equivalent, plus four (4) years’ experience and/or over 8000 hours of work in line construction field required.
• Thirty semester hours of college credit in power technology, electronics, communications technology, industrial technology, or related field may substitute for one year of the general required experience, with a maximum substitution of one year.
• Military service in an equivalent area may also substitute for work experience

Licensing and Certification:

• DOL Line Erector/Installer Certification preferred
• Valid Texas Commercial Driver's License.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must have working knowledge of transmission and distribution systems.
• Ability to install, maintain, and troubleshoot transformer banks, regulators, capacitor banks, breakers, and other electrical equipment.
• Approved by LCRA to switch transmission equipment in substations.
• Perform advanced distribution troubleshooting skills, both primary and secondary voltage.
• Knowledge in fusing and sectionalizing coordination.
• Basic computer skills in the following applications: MS Word, Excel, Outlook, NISC time entry, and work order processing.
• Ability to communicate effectively and positively; focused on improvement or problem resolution in a constructive, positive, and professional manner.

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Applications will be accepted until April 17, 2026.