Taylor Helikson

Lineman

Bonneville Power Administration

05.2016 - Current

Responded to emergencies and outages that required additional labor and assistance for repairs.
Worked on both dead and energized
Installed, spliced and maintained overhead and underground power lines for residential and commercial customers.
Followed all safety protocols and regulations while working at height and with live electricity.
Current barehand certification with over 2000 hours of certified barehand work in the last 6 years.
Current and up to date on latch way installation requirements
Current and worked 2 class c jobs with over 100 hours of class c time worked on each job
Equipment trainined on and competent on is all pullers at bpa, v groove, boom truck, every bucket truck bpa currently uses, dozer, backhoe, excavator
Very proficient at all rope access procedures bpa currently uses including use of the new atlas device, mpd, ID and anything else approved with bpa fall protection.
Have worked with every crew at Bonneville and have experienced their work procedures excecept Covington. 13 out of 14 crews.
Have had 100s of hours as a foreman 1 upgrade, a hold order holder and a clearance holder and up to date with all the needs to take clearances and hold orders
Work practices preformed and competent at include. Hotsticking, various barehand work procedures, errecting and wrecking out towers, various wire pulling from small single conductor like Ibis to large double and triple bundle like chukar, framing, setting, counterpise, fire wrap and everything else to do with wood pole installation at bpa.
helicopter jobs with bell 407 and ah 60 from setting poles to doing baker boards on deadends and landing ladders, interphase spacers and regular spacing.
Have taken part and led in training apprentices at hammer training facility for setting goat peeks with a helicopter, landing spacer carts with helicopter and landing baker board with helicopter
Current in splicing, pulling, and everything else to do with adss fiber to the Bonneville standard