May 8, 2025
Electric Energy Jobs

Transmission Groundman

Organization:
Southern California Edison
Region:
United States, California, San Joaquin
End of contest:
Aug 13, 2019
  This job posting has expired
Type:
Full time
Category:
Transmission operations
Description
Job ID: 71025576

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.

Read the full job posting.

Contact

Southern California Edison

P.O. Box 800

Rosemead

California United States

www.sce.com