General Purpose of Job

This position is responsible for performing construction, maintenance and service restoration on both energized and de-energized overhead and underground distribution and transmission lines and facilities; assist in planning jobs to ensure compliance with safety and construction standards; drive and operate line vehicles as well as assist in stocking trucks with tools, parts and equipment.

Minimum Required Qualifications and Competencies

The following includes the minimum job requirements and essential duties for this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Some job requirements may exclude individuals that cannot be reasonably accommodated or who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.

1st Class

Education

Minimum: High School or GED

Minimum: Certification as a Journeyman Line Technician from an accredited line worker apprentice program.

Experience

Minimum: One (1) year experience as a fully qualified Line Technician 1st Class/Journeyman or equivalent. 

Minimum: Experience in overhead and underground distribution construction, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Preferred: Qualification in transmission line work preferred.

Education and/or Experience Note: The equivalent job experience without the Journeyman Certification for consideration will be a minimum of five (5) years combined progressive experience with one or more electric distribution companies or utilities.

 Other Requirements

• Ability to climb poles and work at elevated heights; physical strength and agility to do strenuous manual work under varying weather conditions; wear specialized protective or safety equipment; extensive driving and field work in close proximity to hot line construction, confined spaces and energized conductors.
• Ability to operate a variety of office equipment, including a personal computer, printers, copy machines, telephone, and fax machine.
• Ability to work irregular hours for assignment completion and flexibility to change scheduling and report to work on short notice during emergency situations and outside of regular assigned shift; ability to work overtime, on-call and availability to respond to call-outs and maintain an acceptable call out response. Irregular hours in evenings and on weekends are possible during peak business times and during storm season.

• Frequent business travel to all areas of service territory required.

• Must not exceed the manufacturer’s weight rating for pole climbing equipment of 350 pounds loaded weight.

• Shift schedules may be changed by giving a 36-hour notice of the changed schedule.

• Successful completion of pre-employment background check, physical and drug screen.

• The Cooperative may deem it necessary to modify work schedules for this classification from time to time and offer various shifts as per the current labor agreement.
• The Cooperative may schedule the Line Technician classifications for any eight (8) or ten (10) hour period, exclusive of mealtime, Monday through Sunday.

• The normal workweek shall be five (5) consecutive eight (8) hours or four (4) ten (10) hour days excluding the thirty (30) minute meal period, beginning and ending at midnight Monday (end of Sunday).  Rest days shall be consecutive.  The Cooperative shall establish the normal schedule of starting and quitting time.  Based on the needs of the Cooperative, the starting time may be moved, with 36-hour notice.  The Cooperative will determine if an eight (8) hour or ten (10) hour schedule will be used.

Living Requirement:

• To ensure a timely response to call-outs, employees in this classification must live within a 40- mile radius from the assigned work location.  Employees who live more than a 40-mile radius from their assigned work center must relocate within their first 6 months of employment or transfer. 

• All employees living within the thirty (30) mile radius and are subject to call-outs, are expected to meet the one (1) hour response requirement as stated in Article 10.5. Those employees living over thirty (30) miles but no more than forty (40) miles and subject to call-outs will be required to report within ninety (90) minutes. Regardless of the living distance, employees that are on-call and provided with a SECO vehicle are required to respond within forty-five (45) minutes as detailed in Article 10.5.

Driving Requirements:

• Valid Florida Class A Commercial driver’s license without air brakes restriction for regular driving privileges of cooperative vehicles; must have and maintain an acceptable driving record as determined by the Cooperative.

2nd Class

Education

Minimum: High School or GED

Preferred: Vocational/Technical    Major: Line apprenticeship training or other related continuing education required for progression in classification.

Preferred: Continuing education in electricity

Experience

Minimum: Two (2) years progressive experience in the construction, maintenance, troubleshooting, installation/removal of equipment on overhead and underground distribution electric facilities with a distribution electric utility or related industry. 

 Other Requirements

• Ability to climb poles and work at elevated heights; physical strength and agility to do strenuous manual work under varying weather conditions; wear specialized protective or safety equipment; extensive driving and field work in close proximity to hot line construction, confined spaces and energized conductors.
• Ability to operate a variety of office equipment, including a personal computer, printers, copy machines, telephone, and fax machine.
• Ability to work irregular hours for assignment completion and flexibility to change scheduling and report to work on short notice during emergency situations and outside of regular assigned shift; ability to work overtime, on-call and availability to respond to call-outs and maintain an acceptable call out response. Irregular hours in evenings and on weekends are possible during peak business times and during storm season.

• Frequent business travel to all areas of service territory required.

• Must not exceed the manufacturer’s weight rating for pole climbing equipment of 350 pounds loaded weight.

• Shift schedules may be changed by giving a 36-hour notice of the changed schedule.

• Successful completion of pre-employment background check, physical and drug screen.

• The Cooperative may deem it necessary to modify work schedules for this classification from time to time and offer various shifts as per the current labor agreement.
• The Cooperative may schedule the Line Technician classifications for any eight (8) or ten (10) hour period, exclusive of mealtime, Monday through Sunday.

• The normal workweek shall be five (5) consecutive eight (8) hours or four (4) ten (10) hour days excluding the thirty (30) minute meal period, beginning and ending at midnight Monday (end of Sunday).  Rest days shall be consecutive.  The Cooperative shall establish the normal schedule of starting and quitting time.  Based on the needs of the Cooperative, the starting time may be moved, with 36-hour notice.  The Cooperative will determine if an eight (8) hour or ten (10) hour schedule will be used.

Living Requirement:

• To ensure a timely response to call-outs, employees in this classification must live within a 40- mile radius from the assigned work location.  Employees who live more than a 40-mile radius from their assigned work center must relocate within their first 6 months of employment or transfer. 

• All employees living within the thirty (30) mile radius and are subject to call-outs, are expected to meet the one (1) hour response requirement as stated in Article 10.5. Those employees living over thirty (30) miles but no more than forty (40) miles and subject to call-outs will be required to report within ninety (90) minutes. Regardless of the living distance, employees that are on-call and provided with a SECO vehicle are required to respond within forty-five (45) minutes as detailed in Article 10.5.

Driving Requirements:

• Valid Florida Class A Commercial driver’s license without air brakes restriction for regular driving privileges of cooperative vehicles; must have and maintain an acceptable driving record as determined by the Cooperative.

About SECO Energy

SECO Energy is a not-for-profit electric cooperative serving over 230,000 homes and businesses across seven counties in Central Florida, making SECO the third-largest electric co-op in Florida and the seventh largest in the nation. One of the most important distinctions between other types of utilities and SECO is that we are member owned. Our members have a voice in the co-op’s decision-making process. They elect a nine-member Board of Trustees, who meet monthly to monitor the financial status of the Cooperative and make policy decisions in the best interest of the membership. SECO’s wholesale power provider is Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc., one of the largest generation and transmission cooperatives in the nation, serving 1.9 million consumers in Florida. Seminole is owned by nine electric distribution cooperatives, and SECO Energy is one of those nine member-owners.

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