Assistant Cable Splicer

Overview

Assist in splicing, terminating, and installing cables and equipment on live power lines.

Key Responsibilities

• conduit install
• primary switching
• transformer install
• cable splicing
• streetlight install
• hot wiring

Tasks

-Drive Company vehicles, both cars and trucks. -Install conduits. -Do primary switching in the underground area and switch lines at all voltages. -Install and remove all types of transformers, arresters, fuses, cutouts, switches, and street lighting equipment. -Rack, insulate, splice, and terminate leaded and nonleaded cables. This work will be performed in vaults, pad mounts, manholes, hand holes, and trenches, or on structures or poles. -Assist cable splicer as required. -Install and connect transformers in customers' vaults as well as Company vaults. -Install and maintain streetlight standards and streetlight equipment. -Install and connect transformers. The work shall include but not be limited to installing main line service boxes, main line disconnect blocks or switches; network protector testing; jumpering customers' services; and other types of hot secondary wiring including residential underground. Above work is on hot lines with extremely high short-circuit currents.

Requirements

• journeyman lineman
• cdl license
• hotline experience
• osha knowledge
• asbestos test

What You Bring

-Journeyman Lineman card required. -Must possess and maintain a valid CDL driver’s license. -Hot line experience required. -Will be required to live within a reasonable distance of headquarters. -Knowledge of safety regulations and OSHA required. -Asbestos physical and fit test for respirator are required and must be maintained.

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About Portland General Electric

-the company began transmitting long‑distance power from Willamette Falls in 1889, a pioneering effort in the region -It operates a diversified fleet—hydro, natural gas, coal, wind and solar—alongside a sizable transmission and distribution network across Oregon -Serving nearly a million retail customers in over 50 cities, it blends generation, wholesale trading, and regulated retail operations -Typical projects include hydroelectric dams like T.W. Sullivan (still active from 1889), wind‑solar‑battery hybrids (e.g., Wheatridge), and transmission line expansions -Unusual facts: it closed Oregon’s last in‑state coal plant early and built one of the first long‑distance AC transmission systems in the U.S.

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