Journeyman Power Line Technician

**Location**: Calgary, Alberta
**Reports to**: Manager, Construction Operations
**Job Posting#**: 134
**Application Deadline**: September 12, 2025

We are seeking a skilled and motivated **Journeyman PLT** to join our team.

**Responsibilities**:

- Reinforce company policies and ensure safe and productive completion of the work.
- Install, repair, and maintain electrical distribution systems.
- Splice, solder, insulate, and terminate conductors and wiring.
- Install and maintain street lighting systems.
- Erect and maintain poles.
- Plan site projects and resource requirements with the Supervisor.
- Coordinate material requirements and effectively manage site materials.
- Conduct safety meetings and assist with incident reporting and investigations as required.
- Provide leadership and coaching to apprentices.
- Maintain detailed project field documentation, reports, and job closing documents.
- Provide input into performance reviews for apprentices.
- Read and interpret electrical drawings and prints.
- Other duties as required.

**Qualifications**:

- Red Seal Journeyman Certification as a Power Line Technician.
- Understanding of applicable codes and regulations.
- Planning skills of project completion, resource requirements, and project documentation.
- Strong knowledge of electrical distribution construction, blueprint reading, and understanding of specification requirements.
- Promotion of safe work practices.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
- Live-line experience or qualifications
- 5 to 10 years of experience constructing overhead and underground distribution powerlines.
- Valid Class 3 or 5 driver’s license with Q endorsement and Driver’s abstract in good standing.

**Additional Assets**:

- Experience working on ENMAX Power Corporation’s and Fortis Alberta’s Distribution System.
- Self-starter requiring mínimal supervision.
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to autonomously manage workload to control multiple tasks with a very high degree of accuracy, while meeting project deadlines.
- Strong English language skills (verbal and written), ability to develop strong business relationships and act in a professional manner.
- A passion for your work and a drive for excellence.
- Ability to lead and work within a team environment.

**ABOUT US***:
Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

Primary is the proud recipient of **EHRC's Workplace Culture Innovator Award**, recognizing our commitment to fostering a health, inclusive, and positive work environment.

Primary is recognized
by **The Career Directory**
for excellence in graduate recruitment.

**GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress***:
Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

**HEALTH & SAFETY***:
The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.