SUPERVISING LINE WORKER
Supervising Line Worker is a competitive local-government title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
What it takes is 3 years of relevant experience.
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Supervising Line Worker is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction, supervises and works with a group of Line Workers engaged in the inspection, installation, construction, repair, rebuilding and maintenance of electric lines and related equipment, climbing poles when necessary; does other required work.
Examples of work
- Supervises and works with a group of line workers engaged in the performance of electric line work.
- Provides arrangements for repairs and changes in electric lines in accordance with general plans and instructions.
- Establishes work procedures to meet work schedules.
- Provides assignments and instruction to staff engaged in installation, construction, repair and maintenance of power lines.
- Prepares and maintains records and files.
- Inspects the work of staff for compliance with standards and instructions and the safe operation of equipment and adherence to safety standards.
- Locates and determines cause of electric power interruptions.
- Trains workers in procedures for repairing power lines.
- Interprets specifications and blueprints.
- Analyzes and resolves work problems.
- Requisitions necessary supplies and equipment.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Requirements
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Experience
Three (3) years of experience in installing and maintenance of power lines, equipment and structures energized at a similar voltage level as operated by the appointing authority.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the standards of construction for aerial circuits in the concerned jurisdictions.
- Knowledge of the rules, regulations and procedures covering the installation and maintenance of aerial circuits.
- Knowledge of the National Electric Safety Code.
- Knowledge of loop out branch circuits.
- Knowledge of tracing out and keeping track of circuits on overhead line construction.
- Knowledge of the problems and procedures involved in installing, repairing and maintaining high voltage lines and equipment.
- Knowledge of the safety precautions to be observed when working with electric lines.
- Knowledge of the characteristics and properties of electric lines.
- Knowledge of tools used in working on electric lines.
- Knowledge of locating defects in electric wiring and taking proper action.
- Ability to provide assignments and instruction to staff and supervise their work performance.
- Ability to prepare work schedules.
- Ability to establish safe working practices.
- Ability to climb poles.
- Ability to prepare reports and requisitions for supplies.
- Ability to apply rules of usage concerning pole lines and underground duct lines.
- Ability to obtain, store, safeguard and use needed equipment, materials and supplies and to keep necessary records.
- Ability to modify plans when necessary due to special conditions encountered on the job.
- Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.
If the appointing authority solely operates a telecommunications and/or signal system operated at less than 50-volts to ground, then three (3) years of telecommunications experience may be substituted.