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Skills

Safety Instruction

EMC Safety Manual regulations/procedures
Use, care and limitations of all personal protective equipment
Installation of personal grounds
Identify and demonstrate how to use and care for tools a Lineman I will be using
Heavy Equipment (digger and bucket trucks)
Substations
Place warning and safety devices to protect the public and workers at the job site
Standard First Aid/CPWAED
Emergency use of Communication System (radio)
Name the different types of fire extinguishers and types of fires they are to be used on
Properly inspect and explain the use of rubber glove and sleeves
Inspect and properly set up a ladder
Understand the elements and purpose of a Job Briefing
Understand cooperative's LOTO policy
Good housekeeping at the job site
Apply Standard First Aid to a victim of injury or illness
Safely operate right-of-way tools (axe, bushaxe, chain saw, pruners, etc.)
Properly inspect, maintain personal climbing tools
Safely climb wooden poles
Meet On-Call requirement of the Cooperative to include but not limited the following: - understand minimum approach distance - determine nominal voltage - distinguish exposed live parts - insulation and isolation
Training in elements of Qualified Observer
Principles of insulation and isolation
Cooperative Principles
Properly set up warning signs when working beside a highway
Safely handle a capacitor
Adult CPR/FA/AED (recertified)

Materials and Equipment

Properly care for all equipment used by your assigned crews
Frame poles properly on the ground and erected
Assist other crew members, as requested and directed
Install poles, anchors, and guys
Cut, clean right of way properly, using power equipment as necessary
Climb poles under the direction of a crew leader
Make service connections, transformer connections, and other equipment connections in a deenergized setting
Coil a hand line for storage
Perform the necessary work on the ground to serve a Lineman working on a pole
Use of a two-way radio
Prepare a transformer for hoisting up a pole
Install ground rod at a pole and make the connections
Frame the following poles (Al, A2,A3, A4, A5)
Frame a pole and identify the installation that is to be made on it
Use hand signals for loading or unloading poles on or from a trailer
Place lights or flags on a trailer when hauling poles
Identify types of single phase transformers (conventional, CSP or pad mount)
Frame the following poles (Bl, B2, Cl, C2, C3, C4, C7, C7-1)
Install pre form ties
Tie-in poles using tie-wire
Sag primary wire off the pole
Hang transformers off the pole
Install armor rods
Work zone set-up
Operate distribution protection equipment (i.e., cutouts, single and three- phase breakers)
Properly supervise the loading of poles on a pole trailer and secure the poles and attaching flags
Plumb and line up a pole prior to back-filling and tamping
Single and three-phase metering equipment
Explain all types of metering used on the distribution system
Explain where and how C. T's are used
Take an energized regulator out of service

Line Truck

Inspection
Set-up
Operation (digging holes, hanging transformers, setting pole, etc
Store tools on the truck
Demonstrate driving skills and obtain a Commercial Driver's License
Operation of line truck and underground equipment

Bucket Truck

Inspect, set up, and operate a bucket truck
Perform pole top and bucket rescue procedure
Operation of bucket truck and underground equipment
Operate and work from an aerial bucket on energized lines only under the supervision of a qualified Lineman
Change out various line equipment (poles, x- arms, transformers, etc.) using bucket truck on an energized line

Line Tools

Knowledge, care, and inspection of line tools (hot sticks, hoist, grips, rubber goods, etc.)
Use and inspect of hot line tools
Identify and demonstrate how to use and care for tools a Lineman I will be using
Safely operate right-of-way tools (axe, bushaxe, chain saw, pruners, etc.)
Select proper tension sleeves and tools to splice conductors
Tie the various knots used in the line trade

RUS Specifications

Overhead
Underground
Important provisions of EMC and RUS Specifications for three- phase line construction and maintenance

Tool Usage/Administration

Be able to use various hand tools like screw drivers, hammers, wrenches, and battery-operated tools.
Completely fills out work orders with adequate information.
Completes work order with countermeasure suggested and followed up.
Be able to track repeat calls and major downtime calls using CMMS. ( Computerized maintenance management System)
Participate in a RCA. (Root cause Analysis)
Can navigate backlog work orders and update as completed.
Install an anchor
Assemble and install guys on a pole before it is erected
Pull and attach guy to anchor
Load and bind poles on a pole trailer
Identify the types and sizes of ropes and coil properly for storage
String out wire on the ground and make splicing
Work on the ground to serve Lineman on pole
Disassemble material taken from a pole
Assemble crossarms to be installed on poles
Identify lines and where they are to be used
Make up a hand line
Install a set of double arms in the buck arm position
Install a set of double arms in the buck arm position with the main line energized
Take ampere readings on a primary line using tong amp meter
Proficient with testing equipment
Install lightning arrester and cut out on a distribution system
Use a sag chart, check the sag in a single-phase line
Properly obtain clearance to remove grounds
Properly discharge a capacitor before removing it from a pole
Install a single-phase reclosure
Obtain clearance and properly install protective grounds on a three-phase line that has been taken out of service

Line Maintenance-Overhead

Trouble shooting primary overhead lines
Stringing conductor (wire)
Tie wire and preforms
Hanging, change out, and banking of transformers
Phase rotation
Fusing and fuse coordination
Repairing fallen conductor
Right-of-way
Building taps
Underbuild and secondary
Retiring, change out, and relocating all lines and line equipment (pole, transformers, cutouts, etc.)
Training dealing with services (connections, installing, and removing meters, etc.)
Three phase equipment
Overhead and Underground Distribution Specifications Manuals
Install personal protective grounds on a line that has been de-energized overhead.
Perform work on both secondary and primary voltages on energized lines overhead

Line Maintenance – Underground

Trouble shooting underground lines
Proper installation of all underground lines and equipment (wire, transformer, etc.)
Installing, terminating, and splicing cable
Transformer change out and proper make-up
Cable identification training in underground location equipment
Training dealing with services (connections, installing, and removing meters, etc.)
Underground Distribution Specifications Manuals
Assist in installing underground cable and equipment
Introductory underground systems
Proper grounding of single-and three-phase lines underground
Underground distribution systems
Inspect, set up, and operate underground equipment
Substations and underground distribution systems
Assist in installation, operation, and maintenance of underground distribution system
Underground fault finding equipment

Substations

Trouble shooting
Knowledge and operations of all substations equipment (fuses, breakers, regulators, metering, etc.)
SCADA
Mobile substation
Use of heavy equipment inside of substations
Care and maintenance of substations
Distribution substations
Assist in substation installations and maintenance
At a substation, identify the following: • Transmission side • Power transformers • P.T.s • Regulators

Environmental matters

Personal protection
Spill prevention
Right to know
Protection for public
Environmental controls
Install a member's meter and record the information
Preparing and maintaining all necessary transformer and meter records
EMC record keeping
Take information from electrical devices needed to complete records

EMC Policies

EMC Safety Manual regulations/procedures
Basic electrical theory
Voltages of lines worked on
Distribution system layout and feeds
Grounding connections
Two-way feeds on an EMCs entire system
Important provisions of EMC and RUS Specifications for three- phase line construction and maintenance
Make the proper connections on a three-phase bank (types which each EMC installs)
EMC record keeping

Public Relationship

Protection for public
Place warning and safety devices to protect the public and workers at the job site
Properly set up warning signs when working beside a highway

Electrical theory

Basic Electrical Theory
Name various electrical devices used on the job
Knowledge of electrical equipment and material
Feeds throughout a district and the directions in which each section can be fed
Theory relating to low voltage connections
Distribution substations
Underground distribution systems
Two-way feeds on an EMCs entire system
Transformers
Transformer bank connections
Substations and underground distribution systems
Knowledge of electricity from generation until it reaches the members
Check voltage at member's meter base
At a designated pole, identify the various circuits or other installations such as telephone wire and cables
State the proper ground clearance for wires over a highway, bodies of water, driveway or railroad crossings
Identify primary voltages on distribution
Follow proper grounding procedures when splicing a conductor on the ground
Identify the following types of transformers: • power • distribution • potential • current • self-protecting
The proper makeup of terminators, elbows, splices (bath primary & secondary) and transformers (both single and three phase)
The proper procedure for rubber cover-ups on energized lines
Explain the method of pulling in new wires on reconductoring projects
Give the proper clearance required for a primary and service wire, crossing a highway and waterways
Proper procedure to use when replacing a phase wire that has burned down in mid- span on a three-phase line
Explain what precautions should be taken stringing wire parallel to or in the vicinity of a high voltage line
De-energize a single and three-phase line at an oil circuit breaker
The proper procedure to dispose of a damaged single-phase capacitor
Explain the function of a current limited fuse in a CSP transformer
Check the polarity of transformers used in a three-phase bank
Explain what is known as the high leg of a three-phase 4-wire 120/240 power bank
Change a closed delta transformer bank to three-phase open delta if or when one transformer fails
Assist in installing a single phase step-voltage regulator on a pole
Explain the correct procedure of removing a step-voltage regulator from service
Use a phase indicator or tester to check out the phases of a distribution primary circuit at a point that is normally open to determine phasing and proper connection
Proficient at three-phase banking installation and troubleshooting
System knowledge to include feeder change and system backfeed capabilities

Proper Time Keeping and All Record Keeping

Fill out injury, accident reports
Basic workorder procedures
The Cooperative's basis residential and commercial rates
The Cooperative's service rules and operating procedures
To read staking sheets and material lists
Single-phase line construction
Three-phase line construction
Cooperative's billing procedures such that you can explain them
Complete member-location procedure
Read distribution maps
Qualified as a tag or clearance holder
Hold call duty as prescribed by cooperative's policy and job description
Perform crew leader duties

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