Examples of Essential Job Functions:  Constructs, maintains, and repairs electri­cal distribution and transmission system including stringing and pulling wires, setting poles and anchors, climbing poles and transmission towers, and installing transformers, crossarms, insulators, primary switches, and other hardware; may super­vise helpers and train appren­tices; provides continuous feedback to co­-workers during perfor­mance of all duties; sags primary and secondary wires; locates trouble in primary and secon­dary lines, replaces fuses, and clears short circuits in lines; builds and maintains substations, transformer banks, and transformer platforms; connects, discon­nects, and repairs service loops; installs and connects metering equipment; trims trees; reads and interprets blueprints and maps; operates laptop computer for map information; prepares reports of activities; operates digger derrick, bucket trucks, pickup trucks, and related equipment.  Performs other duties as assigned.  Classification requires stand-by status on a rotating basis