Journeyman Lineman

JOB POSTING

Position: Journeyman Lineman
Rate of Pay: $49.41
Date of Posting: Friday, February 27th, 2026

Employees interested in this position who feel they are qualified to fill this job should sign their name to the job posting available through the LCUB Employee Portal. 

Job Description Form

COMPANY: Lenoir City Utilities Board

DATE PREPARED: 8-27-92

JOB DEPARTMENT: Electric Dept.

JOB TITLE: Journeyman Lineman
Revised: 02-27-26

Purpose of the Job:

This individual is accountable to the General Foreman. The role of this individual is to work with high voltage lines in various capacities to install and repair electrical service. Additionally, this individual maintains primary responsibility of instructing apprentices to ensure that they are properly trained.

Essential Job Duties:

1. Perform jobs relevant to connecting high voltage to customer access (i.e., set new poles, change out switch or poles, hang transformers, upgrade transformers, close disconnect, open oil re-closures, and frame poles.
2. Provide relevant services conducted on the ground (i.e., run service line into homes, set meters, and run service entrance.)
3. Supervise and instruct apprentice linemen.
4. Load equipment to be used on trucks.
5. Perform all duties as required by LCUB Electric Department work rules.
6. Maintain standby status in the event of an emergency.

Marginal Job Duties:

1. Work as support personnel in absence of other crew members (i.e., tamp earth shovel, frame poles.)
2. Load trucks with material prior to leaving or returning to warehouse.
3. Drive service vehicles.
4. Any other duties assigned by management.

Review of Physical Demands:

1. Frequently lift and carry weights up to 100 pounds (i.e., steel cross-arms, hydraulic tools, coils of wiring, transformers.)
2. Stand for seven or eight hours to perform vast majority of tasks.
3. Frequently walk to retrieve materials and to gain access to truck.
4. Frequently climb and balance when ascending and descending poles using hooks and ladders.
5. Occasionally stoop to bury ground stakes securely.
6. Frequently kneel and crouch to run underground wiring.
7. Frequently twist to either left or right to pull wire and cable while working from bucket.
8. Frequently reach with arms extended out in front or overhead to perform all work from bucket and perform other jobs on the ground.
9. Frequently handle tools, wiring, and hardware to connect or repair services.
10. Occasionally perform repetitive fingering tasks to assemble connectors.
11. Possess adequate verbal and auditory skills to communicate with ground crews and
apprentices.
12. Possess sufficient visual acuity to work in close areas, operate company vehicles and to perform other relevant tasks.
13. Possess adequate depth perception to effectively perform wiring jobs and to interpret diagrams and maps.
14. Possess adequate color vision to decode taps.

Environmental Hazards:

1. Develop tolerance for extremes in weather conditions, especially those which accompany emergency situations (i.e., rain, snow, sleet, ice, high winds, and extremes in temperatures.)
2. Develop awareness of possible hazards and tolerance for exposure to car exhausts, birds, and venomous insect bites.
3. Develop awareness of potential hazards from mechanical tools such as hydraulic tools and bucket mechanisms.
4. Develop awareness of potential hazards from working at heights (i.e., climbing ladders and using hooks.)
5. Develop awareness of potential hazards from transformer oils containing PCBs.

Education, Experience, Degrees, Certificates, or Licenses Required:

1. High school diploma or GED Certificate, completion of an approved apprentice program, and possess a Tennessee Class A commercial drivers license.
2. Possess sufficient reading ability to interpret information in specification books, manuals, and on work orders.
3. Possess sufficient written language to keep records when on call, to fill out time sheets, and to make addendums to work orders.
4. Possess sufficient mathematical skills to maintain records and time sheets (i.e., addition and subtraction.)

LCUB offers an excellent benefit package including a company pension plan, paid NEBF retirement and a family insurance package that includes medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.

Qualified applicants should visit LCUB.com to download an application for employment and submit along with resume to: mhall@lcub.com

Lenoir City Utilities Board is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable laws and regulations in our employment practices. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.

LCUB is a participant in the Tennessee Drug-Free Workplace Program. All LCUB facilities and vehicles are tobacco-free.