Experience as a distribution lineman.Skilled in electrical utility construction methods and standards,overhead and underground materials,use of hand tools and operation of construction equipment.I know the fundamentals of electricity,electrical circuitry,and operation of electrical equipment.I know the mechanical principles to rigging the operation of tools and equipment test instruments and procedures,accident prevention rules and safe work practices.I am great at fallowing instuctions written,oral,or diagrammatic form. I excel in work environments where poles must be climbed and work performed off the structure. I have been trained in pole top rescue and CPR. Installing,removing equipment and apparatus this includes poles,cross arms,towers,enclosures,ducts,piping,transformer,switches,capacitors,pot heads,protective devices cooling or insulating equipment emergency gear and automatic reclosers. Also installing,removing,splicing bonding terminating,and testing conductor and cable. I always use precautionary procedures necessary,proper tools and safety equipment to work on or near energized lines. Operating test equipment such as amp,volt,or ohm meters phasing kits cable test sets fault finders and cable locators.
Worked at Dowden Electric when John Dowden was the owner over in Santa Maira
Lead Lineman running a crew at chevron lost hills
Lead Lineman on a job in palm springs Built a sub station from the ground up plus a few miles of power line at a wind farm.
Union shop they did not have vary much line work and i got bored doing traffic lights.
Lead Lineman on a job in Clear Lake CA.Also Hot tapped with sticks the 115 kva on elk hills.
rubber gloved lots of primary cutting in dead end air switches ect.
started as a yard boy taking parts and tools out to line crews in the field did that for about a year then got on my first line crew