Crew Leader - Distribution

Position: Working Crew Leader I - Distribution
General Purpose

Mission Statement: BED's mission is to serve the energy needs of our customers in a safe, reliable, affordable, sustainable, and socially responsible manner. BED's four key values are:
Safety, Reliability, Community and Innovation. BED's vision is to make Burlington a Net Zero Energy city by eliminating fossil fuel usage across the electric, thermal, and ground transportation sectors by strategically electrifying, managing demand, realizing efficiency gains, and expanding local renewable generation while increasing system resilience.

General

Purpose:

This position is responsible for providing field supervision over a crew or crews involved in the construction, maintenance, and operation of the underground and overhead electrical distribution system. Lead by example to promote a safe work environment. This position performs skilled work at the journey level in the construction, maintenance and operation of the underground and overhead electrical distribution system including installation of fiber optic cable.

Work includes performing skilled tasks on both de-energized and energized systems up to 13,800 volts utilizing rubber gloving practices. Respond to customer power outages and electrical problems. Work involves climbing poles, driving, and operating line bucket and digger derrick trucks, working with specialty tools, and working in confined spaces. Responsible for enforcement of safety policies and seeing those construction standards are followed.

Install and maintain a variety of light fixtures used for street lighting and security. The position regularly requires an employee to work overtime or work outside of regularly scheduled hours for emergency or service restoration purposes.

Union Affiliation:
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

Pay Grade HF1: $42.23 - $68.89 Hourly

Remote Tier 1:
Zero (0) days remote/week

Essential Job Functions

* Direct, schedule, and perform daily field operations of crews engaged in the installation and maintenance of BED's overhead and underground electrical distribution system including both primary and secondary voltages.

* Lead by example to promote a safe work environment by practicing and enforcing all applicable safety policies and rules.

* Responsible for completion of pre-job briefings (tailboard discussions).

* Responsible to ensure appropriate construction standards and practices are used in unusual or more difficult situations.

* Responsible for the safe installation, maintenance, repair, and removal of overhead and underground lines, equipment, and apparatus.

* Meet with the Project Engineer during the engineering design phase of projects to provide input and ensure projects are well coordinated between the engineer and the working crew leader.

* Meet with the Project Engineer to review the scope of planned outages and ensure the work is done in a safe manner while reducing the impact on our customers.

* Ensure that employees adhere to personnel policies.

* Coaches, motivates, and leads fellow employees, including holding employees accountable for achieving desired results.

* Install, remove, maintain, and repair poles, cross arms, pins, insulators, hardware, and other associated apparatus used in the construction and maintenance of BED's electric distribution system.

* Install, remove, and maintain various types of overhead conductors including splicing.

* Install, remove, and maintain various types of underground conductors and associated equipment working in a confined space in an energized environment.

* Splice and terminate underground primary cable.

* Install, connect, and troubleshoot pad mounted, overhead, and submersible transformers on both single and multi-phase installations.

* Install, maintain, and troubleshoot single phase services including the installation and removal of single-phase meters.

* Install, maintain, and troubleshoot three phase services.

* Perform level one requirements of the BED switching and tagging list.

* Respond to and repair various overhead and underground distribution system disturbances including storm related events.

* Install fiber optic cable in both the overhead and underground utility system.

* Trim trees as required to maintain clearances on both the primary and secondary electrical system.

* Perform inspections on all associated equipment and identify potential situations that would affect the reliability of the distribution system.

* Operate equipment associated with the installation and maintenance of BED's electrical distribution system in accordance with established policies and procedures to include but not limited to digger derrick trucks, bucket trucks, vacuum equipment, pulling equipment, wire trailers and forklift.

* Accurately complete applicable paperwork (e.g., material sheets, work orders, times sheets, system disturbance reports, transformer logs, confined space inventory reports, vehicle repair reports, etc.)

* Coordinate and schedule assistance for projects requiring additional support.

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