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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Install or repair cables or wires used in electrical power or distribution systems. May erect poles and light or heavy duty transmission towers. | Adhere to safety practices and procedures, such as checking equipment regularly and erecting barriers around work areas. | |||
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Open switches or attach grounding devices to remove electrical hazards from disturbed or fallen lines or to facilitate repairs. | ||||
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Climb poles or use truck-mounted buckets to access equipment. | ||||
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Place insulating or fireproofing materials over conductors and joints. | ||||
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Install, maintain, and repair electrical distribution and transmission systems, including conduits, cables, wires, and related equipment, such as transformers, circuit breakers, and switches. | ||||
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Identify defective sectionalizing devices, circuit breakers, fuses, voltage regulators, transformers, switches, relays, or wiring, using wiring diagrams and electrical-testing instruments. | ||||
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Drive vehicles equipped with tools and materials to job sites. | ||||
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Coordinate work assignment preparation and completion with other workers. | ||||
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Inspect and test power lines and auxiliary equipment to locate and identify problems, using reading and testing instruments. | ||||
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String wire conductors and cables between poles, towers, trenches, pylons, and buildings, setting lines in place and using winches to adjust tension. | ||||
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Test conductors, according to electrical diagrams and specifications, to identify corresponding conductors and to prevent incorrect connections. | ||||
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Replace or straighten damaged poles. | ||||
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Install watt-hour meters and connect service drops between power lines and consumers' facilities. | ||||
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Attach cross-arms, insulators, and auxiliary equipment to poles prior to installing them. | ||||
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Travel in trucks, helicopters, and airplanes to inspect lines for freedom from obstruction and adequacy of insulation. | ||||
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Dig holes, using augers, and set poles, using cranes and power equipment. | ||||
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Trim trees that could be hazardous to the functioning of cables or wires. | ||||
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Splice or solder cables together or to overhead transmission lines, customer service lines, or street light lines, using hand tools, epoxies, or specialized equipment. | ||||
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Cut and peel lead sheathing and insulation from defective or newly installed cables and conduits prior to splicing. | ||||
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Clean, tin, and splice corresponding conductors by twisting ends together or by joining ends with metal clamps and soldering connections. | ||||
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Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks. | ||||
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Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduit running through the trenches. | ||||
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Cut trenches for laying underground cables, using trenchers and cable plows. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Transportation | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Inventory management software | Inventory management software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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Air hammers | Pneumatic hammer | |||
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All terrain vehicles ATV | All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled | |||
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Allen wrenches | Hex keys | |||
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Ammeters | Ammeters | |||
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Arc suppression blankets | Electrical insulators | |||
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Arrow boards | Traffic signals | |||
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Asbestos gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Augers | Augers | |||
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Awls | Awls | |||
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Backhoes | Backhoes | |||
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Bashlin belts | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Bench vises | Bench vises | |||
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Block and tackle equipment | Blocks or pulleys | |||
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Boats | Recreational motorboats | |||
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Bolt cutters | Bolt cutters | |||
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Braces and bits | Form tools or toolbits | |||
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Breathing protection equipment | Mask or respirators filters or accessories | |||
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Buck saws | Saws | |||
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Bucket trucks | Articulating boom lift | |||
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Cable benders | Conduit benders | |||
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Cable cutters | Wire or cable cutters | |||
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Cable strippers | Stripping tools | |||
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Cant hooks | Lifting hooks | |||
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Capstan hoists | Hoists | |||
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Chain jacks | Jacks | |||
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Chain saws | Power saws | |||
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Clamp-on multimeters | Clamp On Multimeter | |||
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Climbing hooks | Grab hooks | |||
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Climbing spikes | Safety shoes | |||
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Comealongs | Pullers | |||
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Compression tools | Lug crimping tool dies | |||
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Concrete drills | Power drills | |||
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Conductive clothing | Hazardous material protective apparel | |||
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Continuity meters | Circuit tester | |||
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Crowbars | Pry bars | |||
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Current leakage meters | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Digging spades | Spades | |||
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Digital dynamometers | Dynamometers | |||
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Digital recording amp meters | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Digital voltmeters DVM | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Drill bits | Drill bits | |||
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Dump trucks | Dump trucks | |||
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Ear plugs | Ear plugs | |||
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Elbow pullers | Pullers | |||
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Electric drills | Power drills | |||
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Electric screw guns | Power screwguns | |||
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Explosive actuated spiking tools | Electrical power sensors | |||
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Face shields | Facial shields | |||
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Fall arrest harnesses | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Files | Files | |||
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Fire blankets | Fire blankets | |||
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Fire extinguishers | Fire extinguishers | |||
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Fire retardant clothing | Fire retardant apparel | |||
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Fish tapes | Fish tape | |||
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Flares | Flares | |||
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Fuse pullers | Fuse pullers | |||
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Gas drills | Power drills | |||
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Gin poles | Blocks or pulleys | |||
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Ground rod drivers | Pneumatic hammer | |||
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Ground testers | Electrical resistance or conductance sensors | |||
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Grounding devices | Grounding hardware | |||
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Hacksaws | Saws | |||
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Hammer drills | Power drills | |||
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Hammers | Hammers | |||
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Hand benders | Conduit benders | |||
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Hand lines | Lifts | |||
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Hand reamers | Reamers | |||
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Hand saws | Saws | |||
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Hard hats | Hard hats | |||
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Hydraulic benders | Conduit benders | |||
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Hydraulic cutters | Wire or cable cutters | |||
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Hydraulic drills | Power drills | |||
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Hydraulic presses | Hydraulic press frames | |||
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Hydraulic tampers | Tampers | |||
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Infrared guns | Heat tracing equipment | |||
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Insulated cable cutters | Wire or cable cutters | |||
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Insulated gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Insulated knives | Utility knives | |||
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Insulated pliers | Linemans pliers | |||
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Insulated skinning knives | Utility knives | |||
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Insulated wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Insulator testers | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Jackhammers | Pneumatic hammer | |||
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Jumper clamps | Cable clamps | |||
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Keyhole saws | Saws | |||
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Knockout punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Ladders | Ladders | |||
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Laser printers | Laser printers | |||
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Leather gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Levels | Levels | |||
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Lifelines | Lifelines or lifeline equipment | |||
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Lifting slings | Slings | |||
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Light pickup trucks | Light trucks or sport utility vehicles | |||
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Line tracers | Circuit tracers | |||
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Load break tools | Circuit breakers | |||
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Material handling aerial devices | Platform lift | |||
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Measuring wheels | Measuring wheels for distance | |||
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Megohmmeters | Megohmmeters | |||
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Needlenose pliers | Needlenose pliers | |||
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Non-metallic NM cable locators | Detection apparatus for non metallic objects | |||
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Nut drivers | Nut drivers | |||
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Nylon strap wrenches | Strap wrenches | |||
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Ohmmeters | Ohmmeters | |||
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Optical power meters | Fiber optic test sources | |||
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Oscilloscopes | Oscilloscopes | |||
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Overhead hoists | Hoists | |||
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Peaveys | Lifting hooks | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Phase rotation meters | Phasemeters | |||
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Picks | Picks | |||
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Pike poles | Extension pole | |||
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Pipe wrenches | Pipe wrenches | |||
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Plumb bobs | Plumb bobs | |||
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Pneumatic drills | Pneumatic drill | |||
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Pole belts | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Pole jacks | Jacks | |||
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Portable generators | Gas generators | |||
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Potential testing meters | Potentiometers | |||
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Power benders | Conduit benders | |||
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Power borers | Boring tools | |||
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Power chippers | Power chippers | |||
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Power reel trailers | Flatbed trailers | |||
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Power washers | Pressure or steam cleaners | |||
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Punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Radial boom derrick trucks | Telescoping boom lift | |||
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Ratchet cutters | Wire or cable cutters | |||
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Reel jacks | Cable reels | |||
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Robotic arms | Pick or place robots | |||
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Running grounds | Grounding devices or assemblies | |||
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Saber saws | Power saws | |||
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Safety boots | Safety boots | |||
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Safety goggles | Goggles | |||
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Scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Shovels | Shovels | |||
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Skid steer loaders | Skid steer loaders | |||
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Sledgehammers | Hammers | |||
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Slip joint pliers | Slip or groove joint pliers | |||
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Snowmobiles | Snowmobiles or snow scooter | |||
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Socket wrench sets | Socket sets | |||
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Soldering irons | Soldering irons or guns | |||
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Static discharge sticks | Grounding devices or assemblies | |||
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Telescoping boom trucks | Telescoping boom lift | |||
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Tension machines | Cable reels | |||
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Time domain reflectometers | Reflectometers | |||
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Torque wrenches | Torque wrenches | |||
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Toxic gas detectors | Gas detectors | |||
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Trenchers | Trenching machines | |||
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Truck-mounted cranes | Conventional truck cranes | |||
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Two way radios | Two way radios | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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Water pumps | Water pumps | |||
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Welding tools | Welding tools | |||
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Wheel chocks | Wheel chocks | |||
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Wheeled bulldozers | Wheel bulldozers | |||
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Winches | Winches | |||
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Wire crimpers | Wire lug crimping tool | |||
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Wire cutters | Wire cutters | |||
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Wire tongs | Tongs | |||
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Wire tuggers | Winches | |||
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Wood chisels | Wood chisels | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Required Level of Education | Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Aerial Lineman | |||
Cable Inspector | |||
Cable Installer Repairer | |||
Cable Installer-Repairer | |||
Cable Layer | |||
Cable Splicer | |||
Cable Splicer Apprentice | |||
Cable Splicer Assistant | |||
Cable Tester | |||
Cableman | |||
Climber | |||
Electric Installer | |||
Electric Power Line Repairer | |||
Electric Powerline Examiner | |||
Electric Serviceman | |||
Electric Utility Lineworker | |||
Electrical High Tension Tester | |||
Electrical Line Worker | |||
Electrical Lineman | |||
Electrical Lineworker | |||
Emergency Man | |||
Emergency Service Restorer | |||
Emergency Worker | |||
Ground Crew Lines Person | |||
Ground Crew Linesman | |||
High Tension Tester | |||
Hiker | |||
Hot Stick Man | |||
Hot Stick Worker | |||
Installer | |||
Journeyman Lineman | |||
Line Builder | |||
Line Crewman | |||
Line Erector | |||
Line Erector Apprentice | |||
Line Foreman | |||
Line Inspector | |||
Line Installer | |||
Line Maintainer | |||
Line Mechanic | |||
Line Patrolman | |||
Line Repairer | |||
Lineman | |||
Lineman Apprentice | |||
Linesman | |||
Lineworker | |||
Mechanic | |||
Overhead Line Worker | |||
Patrolman | |||
Pole Climber | |||
Power Line Installer | |||
Power Line Lineman | |||
Power Lineman | |||
Power Lineworker | |||
Radio Interference Trouble Shooter | |||
Relay Man | |||
Relay Worker | |||
Service Crew Leader | |||
Service Man | |||
Splicer | |||
Street Railway Line Installer | |||
Third-Rail Installer | |||
Tower Erector | |||
Trolley Wire Installer | |||
Trouble Lineman | |||
Trouble Shooter | |||
Underground Conduit Installer | |||
Underground Electrician | |||
Utility Lineman | |||
Utility Locator | |||
Wire Chief | |||
Wire Stretcher | |||
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