On Friday March 14th, 54 apprentices completed the Overhead progression, becoming 3 phase lineman. Local 15 President Chris Riser, attending the graduation ceremony at Commercial Center, congratulating the members on their achievement. See the job duties for an overhead electrician below.
Congratulations!!
(Pictured below)
Jason Akines, Robert DeCesare, Jordan Eddy, Mitchell Hansen, Logan Whelchel, Alexander Carpenter, Brandon Coleman, Zachery Freeman, Keegan Garman, Levi Kaleel, Milo Lemoine, Tyler Leonard, Miguel Lozada, Joseph Maggio, Francisco Marin, Adam Merrill, Logan Meyer, Justin Muller, John Mutz, Caleb Nails, Edward Nebe, Brady Patton, Robert Reifsteck, Michael Ruhl, Jacob Schaik, Caden Sipma-Dysico, Nicholas Smiley, Cody Smith, Jesse Szczepanski, Alec Tomczyk, Carter Trone, Cody Warren, Jeffrey Williams Jr., Brady Butler, Aaron Chalkey, Leo Fraire, Reid Luczak, Kylar Murdock, Christopher Norvais, Richard Pfister, Christian Seidelman, Justin Arce, Hunter Brennan, Vincent Bruce, Nathan Burgess, Carter Cech, James Davis, Thomas Dertz, Timothy Devine, Peter Disalvo, Jacob Hankes, Mark Johnson, Dakota Oetzel, and Andrew Kerestes.
Overhead Electrician Job Duties -
1. To install, remove or relocate line equipment
2. To install and maintain line equipment or underground cables.
3. To work on the pole in making preparation for work operations such as installing safety equipment on conductors, hoisting and installing blocks, risers and booms, and installing temporary rigging and weather enclosures.
4. On pole installation, replacement and relocation work to perform such operations as lashing poles, temporarily guying poles, removing and installing arms and braces, transferring line and service wires, transferring transformers providing temporary supports for cables, pipes, potheads and conductors.
5. As instructed, to drive a truck or truck and trailer; to operate power take-off or trailer-mounted equipment; to control the fall line in the operation of the power device used for hoisting and lowering large or heavy equipment on poles or structures; and to operate excavating equipment.
6. To perform service restoration, work such as cutting lines in the clear, removing foreign objects from lines, replacing fuses, reinstalling and connection primary, secondary and services wires, lashing, bracing or guying poles; under the direction of a man of higher grade, to perform switching operations.
7. To perform work on transmission line towers such as installing temporary staging, pulling conductors to tension, attaching lines to insulators, washing insulators, operating live-line tools, installing pole-top switches, patrolling transmission lines and visually observing for sources of trouble and performing grounding operations and, very infrequently, to perform work from suspension ladders or a boatswain’s chair.
8. Occasionally, to perform such work as installing multiconductor lead-covered cables overhead, using a trolley-chair; testing resistance of ground rods and thawing water pipes.
9. Occasionally, to clean transformer vaults by dusting, sweeping and removing accumulations of dirt.
10. As assigned, to work with an inspector, overhead, and make inspections, as instructed, of poles, hardware, arms, conductors, pothead and transformer connections and other such equipment on overhead lines.
11. Occasionally, to perform repair work on pothead equipment, such as replacing front entrance plates, and covers on four conductors, air break potheads.