QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors required. Education and Experience Journeyman Powerline Technician: Requires certification as a Journeyman Line Technician by completing a qualified Line Technician apprentice training program or the equivalent amount of progressively responsible experience. Requires extensive knowledge of our transmission system and a thorough knowledge of high voltage maintenance techniques, tools, and equipment. Education and Experience Apprentice Powerline Technician: Must be a High School graduate and have a minimum of one (1) year experience in two (2) or more of the following areas: - Operation of light and/or heavy equipment such as cranes or boom trucks, digger equipment, bucket trucks, or aerial man lift devices.
- Construction, maintenance, or operation of an electrical distribution or transmission system.
- General construction or building experience as an electrician or apprentice electrician.
- Previous schools or training (including military) related to the electrical industry.
- Previous experience in any of the following categories:
- Working in climbing tools.
- Working from aerial man lift devices.
- Working at heights above 50 feet.
- Working in electrical substations.
- Working on or near high voltage AC circuits.
- Have previous experience or training with computers or digital and/or electronic equipment.
Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to other employees. Math Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Computer Skills: Ability to use a personal computer to access the intranet, departmental software, and Microsoft Office software as required. CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Must maintain a current State of Oklahoma Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and be a qualified driver per the rules and regulations of the D.O.T. requirements. This job also requires a crane certification and Oklahoma Pesticide Applicators Certification which must be received within one (1) year of employment. WORK SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS: This job requires 80% overnight travel. Incumbent must live within a thirty-mile radius of specified base work location. The work schedule may include extensive unscheduled overtime, holidays, and weekends. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires lifting, pushing, pulling or carrying of weights equal to 50 pounds or more; climbing steel, wood and concrete structures; climbing ladders and stairs and working on elevated platforms or scaffolding and working from a bucket truck. Requires walking and/or standing for extended periods of time including routine patrol of transmission lines and facilities. Requires sitting for extended periods of time of which a large percentage may be riding in a motor vehicle. Requires kneeling, crawling, bending or twisting while lifting arms above shoulders and stooping for extended periods of time, in order to accomplish duties while grasping, pulling or pushing objects or manipulating tools. Requires wearing personal safety equipment including body belt, safety line and climbing hooks. Requires quick, calm action in response to emergency situations. Requires vision within normal range. Corrective lens are permitted. Requires hearing within normal range. Hearing aids are permitted. This job requires a D.O.T. physical examination. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires working in varying weather conditions and temperature extremes outside and inside with extreme ranges of humidity and dryness. Requires working with or near hazardous chemicals, materials, fumes, dust, or smoke. Requires working in area of intermittent high noise and vibration levels. Requires working with and near high voltage electricity. Requires working at night, inside or outside in all weather conditions. Requires working in varying environmental locations outside from dry and cultivated fields to wooded and diverse areas of undergrowth. Noise levels vary from quiet to high levels based on activities at the time. In accordance with WFEC Administrative Procedure 805-Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace this position is classified as "safety sensitive". MUST MEET ALL PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS WFEC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER AND EMPLOYER MINORITIES, FEMALES, DISABILITY, AND VETS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY EOE/AA/M/F/DISABILITY/VETS | 
