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Description

Field Trainer

Make a difference. Join us.

In states from DE to TX, ULCS needs people with a variety of skills and capabilities to help us build smarter more resilient energy grids and futures for our customers and communities. It’s important work that communities increasingly depend on for their quality of life and we are making a difference for the customers and communities and growing as more customers discover the ULCS difference. It’s rewarding work and a career that can support you on your life’s journey. If you’d like to make a difference too, then own your career.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Perform and teach new climbing techniques.
• Training and performance of tree felling.
• Demonstrate and teach tree rigging. 
• Provides training on bucket operating methods. 
• Perform and teach ground procedures. 
• Administer Driver Management Program.
• Perform and teach DOT Inspection.
• Administer Line Clearance Qualification Standard.
• Perform and teach First Aid and CPR.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Physically able to climb trees using arborist equipment.
• Able to run a chain saw.
• Capable of making minor repairs on DOT Equipment.
• Able to enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day.
• Capable of operating and servicing all required tools and equipment.

Education & Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

License & Certifications:

• Driver License Required.

Travel Requirements:

• Must have transportation to and from the show-up location.
• Willing to travel out of state for emergency storm work.

Physical Requirements:

• RARE (less than 10%): Kneeling, Crawling, Climbing Ladders, Stooping, Squatting, body-twisting, Climbing On/Off Truck, Climbing Poles, Gripping.
• OCCASIONAL (up to 33%): Pushing, Sense of Touch, Carrying, Pulling, Manual Dexterity, Lifting, Lifting up to 50 lbs.
• FREQUENT (up to 66%): Standing, Reaching, range-of-motion, Walking, Sitting, climbing stairs.
• CONTINUOUS (up to 100%): Seeing, Lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., Sense of Touch, Climbing, Hearing/Speech Range, Lifting up to 10 lbs., Speaking Clearly, Seeing Distant, Reading, Depth Perception, Color Vision, Balancing.

Safety

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of the industry and requirements to work with or around hazardous equipment, employees must have sufficient eyesight to judge distance/coordination of equipment and tools, be able to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods, be able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather while completing work assignments, be able to wear personal protective equipment as necessary, be able to enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day, have the endurance necessary to traverse various terrain, be capable of performing job duties throughout a standard 8- or 10-hour day, be able to communicate with others, read, write, and comprehend written/verbal job instructions and information, and communicate and handle conflict professionally.

• Able to identify job site hazards.
• Exhibits and carries out cognitive problem-solving skills.
• Able to read, comprehend, and visualize job build and all prints.
• Works near/around energized, hazardous parts and equipment.
• Exposed to traffic.
• Works around excessive noise from machines (bore drill, backhoe, trencher, mini excavator, bucket trucks, digger derricks, concrete saw, jackhammers).
• May exposed to hot and cold environments, poisonous plants or reptiles, and stinging insects.

About Us:

Utility Lines Construction Services (ULCS) delivers electric and gas utility construction and maintenance services for investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, municipalities, large industrial manufacturers, government, general contractors, developers and EPC firms. Formed in 2000 from small beginnings, ULCS now boasts more than 2,300 non-union employees in 15 states safely performing utility transmission and distribution infrastructure work throughout the Mid-Atlantic, the Delmarva Peninsula, the Southeast and the South regions of the United States.

Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation can contact the ADA Coordinator by calling 1-833-222-3066. We partner with the Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Customs and Immigration Service to e-Verify all newly hired employees.