MICHAEL MELANESE

-Assist crew with loading and installation of wooden, and or steel poles.

-Preps material for jobs such as cross arms, transformers, and lightening arrestors.

-Drives company vehicles with trailers and power dolly’s.

-Attends night school two days a week.

• Assists in the new construction, maintenance, and installation of high voltage cable
• Makes 600A t-bodies and 200A elbows for vaults, switches, and padmount transformers
• Assists in the installation of padmount transformers, vault type switches, and vault transformers
• Climbs poles to assist journeyman with installation of switch racks, t-arms, and the termination of potheads
• Uses hot line tools to install and remove grounds on transformers and poles
• Sets up rigging in man holes, and or pedestals to pull cable to said destination

• Loads and unloads all line construction material onto trucks and trailers
• Install guy wire and anchors
• Digs pole holes to company specs with auger or post hole digger
• Assists in the framing and erection of wooden and fiberglass poles
• Assists in pulling wire for new construction or reconductoring
• Ensuring jobsite cleanliness

• Uses pneumatic tools, such as 90lb and 30lb jack hammer to break asphalt and concrete to pothole for underground cable installation
• Places couplers in vaults to join conduits
• Hand digs holes for risers for aerial cable
• Drives dump truck with excavator to and from jobs sites
• Assists in traffic control, with cones, lightboards, and traffic signs

• Electrical Line worker program class 2103
• Can assist in planning jobs
• Drive, maintain, and stock line trucks
• Able to lift 75lbs, occasionally lift 100lbs, and carry items up to 125lbs
• Can work in extreme weather conditions to perform the job’s essential functions without posing a direct threat of harm to self, others, or property
• Able to climb and work off poles, ladders, and structures that may be 40 – 100 feet high
• Competent in safety awareness, communication, decision-making, adaptability, applied learning, contribution team success, building strategic working relationships, and building customer loyalty
• Abide by the company’s safety rules and regulations and work on-call rotation and non-traditional hours with successful progress through the company-sponsored lineman apprentice training program

• Ran power from disconnects up to 480V/208V for machinery in labs, swapped ballasts, changed fuses, used knowledge to find shorts in a circuit, and proficiently repaired them
• Conducted preventative maintenance on commercial AHU package units, which included but not limited to the following: changed belts, filters, inspected bearings, and motors
• Serviced humidifiers and dehumidifiers, inspected voltages, and tested contractors
• Repaired and processed motors on exhaust fans, and cooling towers, leveled them to work efficiently with drive shaft and fans
• Serviced fire panels in accordance with state regulations
• Ensured that all safety requirements were within company standard
• On-call rotation for emergency services

• Interior electrical light system repairs
• Organization of vendors, including but not limited to scheduling of new installs/repairs, ensure insurance requirements are met
• Fire panel inspections and complete repairs if needed
• Branch inspections to ensure that all OSHA requirements were met
• Monthly building inspections to ensure all safety requirements were met
• Managed incoming inventory and supply levels for the department
• Assisted in the coordination of building evacuation drills

• Pulled existing old wiring and replaced it with new
• Install multiple different types of light fixtures
• Bent and set EMT conduit
• Hung and terminated inverters

• Inspected and maintained all light fixtures, ballast, and bulbs throughout Park for safety
• Inspected and maintained chill/hot water system for proper operation
• Inspected and maintained fire pumps, and generators for proper operation
• Inspected and maintained the minor electrical system and completed repairs if needed

• Operated a variety of woodworking machines
• Operated various hand tools to fabricate and repair cabinets
• Prepared cabinet surfaces and joint articles for cabinet refinishing
• Organized warehouse supplies and machinery for safety
• Operated shop forklift
• Delivered cabinets to customer