Description
Summary
Performs minor work required in the construction, operation and maintenance of the underground transmission and distribution plant.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Duties:
- Anticipate the needs of underground technicians and division mechanics working in manholes or on poles, assist from the ground, and supply tools, equipment and material required.
- Install manhole hardware, fireproof cables, and clean and paint underground equipment.
- Assist in installing, rearranging or removing conduit, manholes, steel pole plant, equipment enclosures, street light poles and posts, fixtures, transformers, pads, cables and equipment, including aerial and submarine cables.
- Clean conduits, manholes, hand holes, and excavations. Clean vaults and transformer mats in locations where the work can be done safely.
- Operate and make minor field repairs and adjustment on furnaces and blowtorches, and heat compounds and solder to proper temperatures.
- Air test all types of underground equipment, at the direction of an underground technician or Division Mechanic.
- Operate pumps, fans, air driven tools, and other similar equipment.
- Set up warning signs, guards or barricades around openings or work areas.
- Load, unload and move equipment and material.
- Keep in good order all tools, material and equipment required by underground personnel.
- Operate car or light truck; keep vehicle neat and orderly.
- Perform clerical work related to this job.
- Learn to apply approved methods of artificial respiration.
- Perform other similar or less skilled work of the occupational group.
- Mix and place concrete. Repair sidewalks.
- Dig and backfill excavations by hand.
Job Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS:
Must meet the Company's "General Requirements"; and, in addition:
- Must be able to read, write, speak and understand English; must be able to perform fundamental operations in arithmetic and to take measurement. (Ordinarily eight grades of grammar school education will provide the necessary requirements.)
- Must have successfully completed the underground portion of the pre-employment test except an employee hired prior to May 1, 1980 does not have to complete the pre-employment tests.
- Must be able to follow simple instructions and perform routine operations.
- Must have mechanical aptitude.
- Must have the ability to learn:
- The reading of construction prints and the making of simple field sketches.
- The operation and minor field repair and adjustment of furnaces, blowtorches, and the proper method of heating and melting compounds and metals used in the work of splicing cables.
- The identification and use of all materials, tools and equipment commonly used on underground work.
- Must be able to qualify for a basic driver's license with an articulated vehicle endorsement to operate motor vehicles in the State of New Jersey.
Contact
Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)
80 Park Plaza P.O. Box 570
Newark
New Jersey United States
www.pseg.com
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