About Transmission and Distribution
Southern California Edison's (SCE's) Transmission and Distribution Organizational Unit (T & D) is responsible for planning, engineering, constructing, operating, and maintaining transmission and distribution facilities throughout the 50,000-square-mile territory. T&D is the steward of roughly $19 billion in assets that safely and reliably deliver electricity to 14 million residents via SCE's 5 million customer accounts.
Position overview
The Transmission Groundman will work with crews to install, maintain and operate overhead and underground systems.
Responsibilities include:
- Assists Lineman to gain poles, frame crossarms, assemble guys and splice wire.
- Loads and unloads material.
- Raises material and tools on pole or tower by use of handline.
- Dismantles material removed from line and places on trucks.
- Digs holes for poles and anchors, drives ground rods and pulls wires and guys to tension.
- Attends winch while handling heavy material and attends reels while stringing wire.
- Makes and maintains trails, fells trees and burns brush and trimmings, hoes weeds around poles and towers.
- May patrol lines in mountain area to observe for conditions such as trees in line, brush in right of way, slides and washouts.
- Learns tools, materials and methods of line construction and maintenance.
- Operates truck and power equipment used in overhead and underground line construction. May occasionally operate vehicles up to the 12,000 lb. unladen weight class.
- Follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
- Performs other miscellaneous manual labor functions as directed.
Southern California Edison
P.O. Box 800
Rosemead
California United States
www.sce.com