Electrical Linesperson

Berrinba
- Excellent Salary working 9-day fortnight + applicable allowances
- Permanent opportunity to join Energy Queensland

Our
** Operations **Division has a
**permanent** opportunity for an
**Electrical Lineperson** located in

Field Delivery is responsible for the safe delivery of the overhead and underground construction and maintenance program of works, as well as the core functions of customer service response, including customer fault response and disaster management, customer connections, customer relationships and provision of metering services. The core tasks are constructing and maintaining overhead/ underground high and low voltage electrical distribution and sub-transmission systems, street lighting mains and customer service lines.

**The role**:
**As an Electrical Linesperson you will**:

- Construct, maintain and repair overhead, high and low voltage electrical distribution and sub-transmission systems, street lighting mains and customer service lines.
- Be trade qualified with a Queensland Electrical Licensing Board Certificate of Competency as an Electrical Linesperson.
- Perform live line methodology on Energy Queensland (Ergon Energy and Energex) networks.
- Operate within Energy Queensland (Ergon Energy and Energex) requirements for quality, safety and risk assessment compliance.

**Critical to your success in the role is your**:

- Demonstrated knowledge of an electricity distribution/transmission system, including construction and maintenance of the electrical network.
- Working knowledge of Electricity Act & Regulations, Workplace Health & Safety Act and Regulations, and other relevant statutory acts & regulations.
- Well developed interpersonal communication skills to develop good working relationships with team members and external customers. You must have the ability to identify and understand customer needs.
- Availability for call out and emergency work.
- Willingness to travel to surrounding areas from time to time to undertake work.

**About us**

At Energy Queensland our people are at the heart of our business and are central to delivering for our customers and communities. We are focused on developing our people to ensure they have the skills and capabilities to strive and thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment. We pride ourselves on providing equal opportunities, training opportunities, nine-day fortnight with a rostered day off (RDO) every fortnight, an employee assistance program (EAP), various leave options including 14 weeks parental leave, volunteer leave and many more, amongst many other benefits which are a key foundation to our success.

You will be required to complete a pre-employment medical.

For more information about this opportunity, click on the Position Description link located at the bottom of the page.

Remuneration starting from $84,883 per annum + superannuation, working a 9-day fortnight.