PURPOSE OF POSITION

To maintain and construct overhead and underground electric distribution and transmission systems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Journeyman Lineman is required to possess or be able to complete the following:
   1. Line work processes involving safety, first aid, tools, and equipment nomenclature, care and use.
   2. Work on low voltage energized lines, involving setting single phase and multiphase meters, erection of poles, and use of power equipment, including hydraulic equipment. This will include both overhead and underground construction.
   3. Hot-line work on single and three-phase lines, involving installation of transformers, arrestors, capacitors, oil circuit reclosers, sectionalizers, and regulators; cover-up equipment; trouble shooting and emergency repairs; and changing of poles, crossarms and insulators; including use of all hot line tools.
   4. Familiarization with residential and commercial wiring, including power and control wiring; various electrical measuring devices, including basic meters, multiphase meters, and recording meters.
   5. Work records, involving all records necessary in the completion of member connects, disconnects, meter changes, work orders, and material charge out forms, etc.
   6. Must be computer literate.
   7. Climb poles on a daily basis; various heights.
   8. Excellent conditions for year-round work. Work in all types of weather and during storm conditions, may be asked to work a minimum of 24 hours straight without a sleep break.
   9. Will be required to respond to an approved percentage of after-hours outage calls.
   10. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

WORK CONDITIONS

Work will be performed inside and outside; with the outside work involving various weather conditions.

1. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit; use hands, arms, and fingers to handle, feel, or reach; climb or balance; smell, talk, and hear.
2. Employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
3. The employee must regularly lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
4. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
5. Ability to climb and descend poles of various heights under various weather conditions commonly experienced in this geographic region.
6. While performing duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts in high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and explosives.

MINIMUM 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 knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Successfully completed the Journeyman Lineman Apprenticeship Standards.
2. Possess an acceptable IBEW or similar acceptable Journeyman Lineman Certificate of Completion.
3. Must reside or be willing to relocate within a 20-mile radius of the Princeton, IL office.
4. Must possess a CDL A license with air brake and trailer add-ons.
5. CPR certification.

About Corn Belt Energy Corporation

Founded in 1938 as a not-for-profit electric cooperative, Corn Belt Energy now powers the lives of over 35,000 homes and businesses throughout 18 counties in Central Illinois. We employ 85 people and maintain over 5,000 miles of line throughout our vast territory. Our electricity is supplied by Wabash Valley Power Association, a generation and transmission cooperative based in Indianapolis. The largest electric cooperative in Illinois, Corn Belt Energy is owned by the electric members it serves and is committed to providing reliable, affordable power. The cooperative is governed by 13 directors who are residential members and who represent specific districts within our service territory. Educating members on energy efficiency and safety are top priorities and we are committed to supporting our communities in a variety of ways, including our Education Grants Program and our participation in the national Youth to Washington Tour. In the past 80 years, our membership base has changed dramatically from primarily farmers to an ever-increasing number of urban, suburban and commercial accounts. Embracing our rural farm heritage, we now serve many of the new residential subdivisions ...and commercial areas in Bloomington-Normal and other communities. While we've accomplished our original goal of bringing electricity to rural areas, we're now faced with a new challenge: helping cooperative members use energy wisely in a world increasingly reliant on electricity. Corn Belt Energy is a member of the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives (AIEC) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). Corn Belt Energy has been a member of the Touchstone Energy network of electric co-ops since its inception in 1998.

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