Description

Power Your Greatness
PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability, inclusion and belonging.

Responsibilities
As a Journeyman Lineman, you will install, maintain and repair all transmission and distribution electrical systems and associated equipment, both overhead and underground, while utilizing line trucks, aerial boom, lifts and wire pulling equipment. Maintenance of lines and services will require pole climbing, hot sticking, and working out of truck mounted bucket lifts to construct, repair or maintain line equipment or string, splice and sag wire on live or dead circuits. Operates switches, cutouts and uses grounding devices to work on de-energized lines and equipment. You may train and direct the work of a trainee/apprentice in the trade. 

Rubber gloving training will be provided.  Upon meeting the qualifications for Rubber Gloving, an increase to the Qualified Journeyman Lineman rate of pay will be given.

Requirements

Requirements
A high school diploma, GED or equivalent combination of education.
Experience as a Journeyman Lineman, Journeyman Lineman certification and/or testing through UWUA 127.
Completion of a formal apprenticeship training program.
Must meet examining board review of skills and experience.
Candidate must have formal hot stick training and experience.  
Must own, or be able to obtain, a Class A Commercial Driver's License.

Physical Demands
Lifting in excess of 75 lbs from floor to waist and waist to overhead.
Carrying in excess of 75 lbs with both hands, and pushing and pulling in excess of 100 lbs of exertion force. 
Require sustained, awkward positions/postures including bending and twisting at the waist and neck; reaching forward, to the side, across the body and overhead.
Forceful grip and pinch; manipulation of small objects; balancing on one or both legs during dynamic activities; manipulation of large objects during activities requiring balance and sustained awkward postures.
 

This position requires a post-offer, pre-placement physical capacity screening, conducted by a licensed physical therapist, to assure the candidate meets the physical demands of the job. The screening will assess only the identified physical demands of the job being applied for.

Preferences
2+ years experience as a Journeymen Lineman.