Powerline Technician

**Town of Ponoka**:
**Powerline Technician**:
**Competition #24-024-450**

The Town of Ponoka is currently recruiting for a permanent full-time (1.0 FTE) Powerline Technician.

**Position Summary**
The Powerline Technician reports to the Powerline Foreman, and works with colleagues in the Electrical Department to provide quality services to internal and external customers. The team’s work will collectively support the Vision of the Town of Ponoka: To be a thriving community with a hometown feel.

This position supports the team by performing duties that include construction, operation, maintenance, and metering of the overhead and underground distribution system within the Town of Ponoka.

**Typical Duties and Responsibilities**
- **Assist in the installation and maintenance of the municipal electrical system by**:

- Complying with all policies, rules and regulations of the municipality and the provincial government.
- Reading electrical specifications and drawings.
- Installing lines, transformers, breakers, fuses, switches, meters, streetlamps, and other related equipment.
- Performing safety checks and monitoring installation procedures as prescribed in policies and procedures.
- Operating and maintaining electrical vehicles and equipment in compliance with prescribed policies and procedures.
- Trouble shooting and suggesting remedial action.
- Responding to emergency situations.
- **Assist in the installation and reading of electrical meters by**:

- Wiring and installing meters.
- Rewiring and replacing meters.
- Reading meters and/or calculating estimated electrical consumption.
- Responding to complaints about meter readings.
- Identifying and correcting faulty readings and/or meters.
- Completing in/out reading, cut-offs and reinstatements of service.
- Identifying unusually high or low consumption rates.
- **Perform other related duties as required by**:

- Assisting other Town Departments with work activities including snow removal, and operating other equipment/vehicles as required.

**Minimum Requirements**
**Education**
High school graduation
Valid Alberta Powerline Technician Certificate or Interprovincial Red Seal Preferred but will also consider 3rd or 4th year apprentice.
Valid Emergency First Aid Level or above.

**Experience**
Minimum Five years of directly related experience
Municipal experience or contractor with town/city experience is an asset

**Other**
Satisfactory Driver’s Abstract
Satisfactory Criminal Record Check
Valid Alberta Class 3 Vehicle Operators License with Airbrake Endorsement preferred or willingness to achieve.

***Competencies**
**Knowledge**:

- Excellent organization and planning skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and with mínimal supervision.
- Strong interpersonal, team participation and communication skills.
- Excellent customer relations.
- Safe work skills including knowledge of safe work and job planning procedures.

**Additional Skills**:

- Experience in the operation of a Digger an asset.
- Standby and troubleshooting experience an asset.
- 25 kV rubber glove and hotline work knowledge an asset.
- Computer knowledge an asset.

**To be effective in this position, an individual will**:

- Demonstrate integrity: honesty, responsibility, and trustworthiness.
- Display a strong commitment to serving the community.
- Aim for excellence, striving for the highest quality in all that you do.
- Be respectful to others and treat them the way you would want them to treat you.
- Maintain transparency and open communication within the organization, as well as between the community and the Town’s government.

**Working Conditions**
- Indoor, outdoor, all weather conditions
- Walking, standing, kneeling, sitting, bending
- Lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, reaching
- For further information, please reference the Physical Demands Analysis for this position.

**Health and Safety**
- Provide our community with quality services in a responsible manner within a healthy environment.
- Ensure the Town of Ponoka’s health and safety policies, procedures, and safe work practices are followed in accordance with the _Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations.**Recruitment**
- Position status: Full-time (1.0 FTE), permanent, IBEW
- Salary range: $58.90 per hour
- Benefits: Full benefits package including group life insurance, dental, extended health care and a flex health and wellness account.
- Participation in Local Authorities Pension Plan
- Paid vacation
- Annual clothing allowance
- The Town of Ponoka thanks all applicants in advance, however, only those being considered will be contacted.

Education : Other trades certificate or diploma
Experience : 5 years or more