Distribution Line Apprentice - 1st Year Indiana CC;

Important Application Submission Information

In order to ensure your application is successfully received before the job posting expires, please submit your application by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. More than a career - a chance to make a difference in people s lives.

Build an exciting, rewarding career with us - help us make a difference for millions of people every day. Consider joining the Duke Energy team, where you ll find a friendly work environment, opportunities for growth and development, recognition for your work, and competitive pay and benefits.

This posting is by invitation only for Lineworker students who have completed their lineworker program within the last 12 months.

If you did not receive this link directly from your school, please apply to R37950 which is also located on the Duke Energy Careers Site.

The Line Apprentice position supports the operations process in providing and maintaining service to new and existing customers by learning a working knowledge of computer systems, tools, equipment, and material. Employees in the Line Apprentice position will learn the day-to-day operations and specifications of the distribution system. In addition to normal work hours, employees in the Line Apprentice position must be available to be on-call with a more experienced person, as required, and to work all hours, as needed, day or night, weekends or holidays, during planned outages or emergency situations.

Employees in the Line Apprentice position must learn to perform all duties in a safe manner and adhere to all company safety rules and procedures.

Starting Pay: $33.42 per hour

Please note this posting is for multiple Operation Centers. In the next section, you will be able to select your preferred and second choice work locations. Locations are subject to change based on business need.

• Columbus IN Ops Center 2727 Central Ave. Columbus, IN

• Franklin IN Ops Center - 2515 N Morton St Franklin, IN 46131

• Greencastle IN Ops Center - 1400 E Indianapolis Rd Greencastle, IN 46135

• Lafayette Operations Center - 3401 Greenbush St. Lafayette, IN 47905

• Constructs, maintains, and repairs electrical distribution systems, including overhead and underground lines

• Installs and repairs electrical equipment such as street lighting and load control devices

• Constructs overhead and underground distribution lines based on engineering specifications, including setting poles, pulling cable, setting transformers, etc.

• Installs equipment such as transformers, capacitors, regulators, load control devices, meters, streetlights, safe lights, etc.

• Maintains and repairs equipment, e.g., checking equipment and performing preventative maintenance using test equipment such as volt and amp meters to measure the performance of equipment

• Responds to trouble calls when equipment fails and/or electrical service is interrupted

• Supports the company s goals and represents the company positively and professionally

• Work environment ranges from indoors to outside in varying degrees of heat and cold weather conditions

• Emergency situations may require working at night and in inclement weather

• Subject to confined spaces (e.g., manholes, vaults, etc.)

• Shift work, overtime, weekend work

• Subject to periodic call-out duty

• Frequent travel

• High school diploma or GED.

• Valid driver s license.

• Certificate from Lineman s Training School or currently enrolled

• Certificate from Technical School Line program or currently enrolled

• Military experience

• Experience in the electric utility industry

• Training and/or work experience with climbing different types of structures (wood, steel, etc.)

• Previous work experience or training working near power lines and electricity (residential, commercial, overhead lines, or underground lines)

• Experience with responding to natural disasters or emergency situations (storm response such as hurricanes, tornado, wind event, high water; emergency responses such as fires, auto accidents, etc.)

• Work environment ranges from indoors to outside in varying degrees of heat and cold weather conditions

• Emergency…