Job Title: Transmission Groundperson

This position performs all tasks from the ground and will work with the crews to install, maintain, and operate overhead and underground systems.

Burford’s has built its reputation and tradition of service excellence by employing top-tier employees, valuing their input, and by implementing a strategy of shared levels of responsibility for safety, quality, and productivity. If this sounds like you - apply today!

At Burford’s, we understand the level of service that is required to meet and exceed the high standards of the utility industry.

Job Type : Full-Time +, Non-Exempt

Pay : Competitive, Hourly

Benefits:

• Benefits Available and Vary per position and location

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Clears work area and maintains safe jobsite conditions.

• Excavates to assist in the installation of structures or cable as required by contract specification.

• Assembles material on the ground to be installed by the lineperson or apprentice.

• Exposed to traffic and may be required to have training on traffic flagging

• Operates various tools for the work (manual digging devices, wrenches, hammers, come a long, jack hammer and hand line etc.).

• Will have contact with public and private property owners to communicate work to be performed.

• All other duties as requested by Supervisors.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older.

• Must be able to work long hours and overtime during holidays, emergencies, weekends, etc. Subject to call out work.

Education & Experience

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required.

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:

• Willing to travel out of state for emergency storm work.

Physical Requirements:

• RARE: (less than 10%): Sitting, Crawling, Climbing Poles, Color Vision, Climbing Ladders, Climbing Stairs

• OCCASIONAL: (up to 33%): stooping, kneeling squatting, body twisting, sense of touch, climbing on/off truck, gripping, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, balancing, lifting over 50 lbs.

• FREQUENT: (up to 66%): standing, walking, manual dexterity, seeing distant, seeing, reading, range of motion, hearing-speech range, depth perception, climbing stairs, lifting up to 10 lbs.

• CONTINUOUS: (up to 100%): Sense of Touch, Gripping, Seeing, Carrying, Pulling

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.

• Works around hazardous equipment.

• Works near energized parts or equipment.

• Works around excessive noise from machines, jackhammers, chain saws and other equipment with proper hearing protection.

About Us: Burford’s Tree is a full-service vegetation management company that has provided the utility industry with quality vegetation management services for over 30 years. We have worked in over 15 states with a wide range of contracts, from one crew to those executed by hundreds of Burford’s employees.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.