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Company: PNM Resources Job Description: Journeyman Lineman Job ID # 1106032 We are seeking a highly skilled professional for our Journeyman Lineman position. Under general direct supervision of working foreman or district foreman, this team member will direct apprentices, skilled, and semi-skilled workers engaged in the construction, operation, and maintenance of overhead transmission and distribution lines and substations. This position performs construction duties by erecting and setting poles and towers; attaching necessary cross-arms, transformers, circuit breakers, cut-outs, lightning arrestors, anchors, guys; stringing, sagging, insulating, attaching, and connecting conductors; installation of underground systems including circuit, laterals, vaults, and grounds; installation of un derground cable, transformers, switch boxes, and similar equipment. This position may also install or assist in cable construction by testing and tracing circuits in power systems; make various types of connections between electrical conductors; insulate conductors properly for the voltage conditions under which they are to operate. Make electrical connections between conductors and various types of equipment such as transformers, potheads, and terminal boxes; as required, may weatherproof or fireproof cables. Successful candidate must be willing to take and must successfully complete an 80 hour PNM Barehand Certification program working energized circuits and equipment with voltages from 46kV to 345kV. Previous transmission live line maintenance experience or certification utilizing the bare hand technique on voltages up to 345kV a plus. Position requires a minimum of a High School diploma and must be a journeyman lineman who has completed an accredited, minimum 3-year apprenticeship program with an electric- power organization utilizing an active high-voltage transmission line hotstick maintenance program; or equivalent documented training or work experience with a properly licensed contractor or labor organization. To view complete job description and requirements, & to apply online visit www.pnm.com. Individuals without Internet access may fax resume to 877-880-8745. Faxed resumes MUST indicate the position title of your interest. Resumes must be received no later than January 21, 2007. PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) is an energy holding company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Through its utility and energy service subsidiaries, PNM Resources supplies electricity to 725,000 homes and businesses in New Mexico and Texas and natural gas to 471,000 customers in New Mexico. Its utility subsidiaries are PNM and Texas-New Mexico Power. Other subsidiaries include First Choice Power, a deregulated competitive retail electric provider in Texas, and Avistar, an energy research and development company. PNM Resources and its subsidiaries also sell power on the wholesale market in the West. Read the full story |
