
Overhead Distribution Lineman A
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Job overview
Centuri Group’s Lineman A2 builds multiphase energized facilities and reports to the crew Foreman. The work includes handling energized conductors, troubleshooting overhead lines, reading job prints, and performing line repair and related utility work. Candidates need at least 4.5 years of electrical powerline industry experience, the skills required for Lineman A1, and English fluency. The role includes outdoor work and physical tasks such as lifting, climbing, and kneeling.
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Full job description
Overhead Distribution Lineman A
Date: Oct 15, 2026
Location:
Harlingen, TX, US, 78550
Company: Linetec Services, LLC (S4)
Description:
Who We Are
Centuri Group is comprised of a family of companies that make up a utility infrastructure enterprise, operating throughout the US and Canada, committed to safely delivering gas, electric and utility services to our customers and the community. We help you build your career on Solid Ground by investing in your development and valuing your unique skills, perspective, and background. Employees are the lifeblood of our organization, and we’re committed to providing a stable foundation to continuously grow and thrive. We’ve got work for the next 100 years -All we need is you!
As a Lineman A2 you will build multiphase energized facilities. Experience required is fourth year second, six months. You will report to the crew Foreman.
What You'll Do
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Work on utility poles and fixtures on energized situations
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Demonstrate proper cover application, handling energized multiphase primary conductors and working around covered multiphase lines
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Frame transformer banks, rotate three phase secondary/services and troubleshoot overhead lines
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Read job prints and built to spec
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Follow safety performance requirements
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Complete tree trimming, multimeter operations, using line test equipment, cut-outs and reclosures, advanced rigging, line repair with rubber gloves and hot sticks
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Introduction to substation safety, capacitors and reactors, power transformers, URD troubleshooting and circuit breakers
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Complete required company training, including safety training
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Perform Administrative duties as required
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Perform other responsibilities as requested by leadership
What You'll Have
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Minimum 4.5 years' experience in the electrical powerline industry
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All the skills required for a Lineman A1
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Understand basic electricity and proper use, care and maintenance of hot sticks
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Pass evaluation of competency before promotion and activity in the Apprenticeship Training Program
What You'll Get
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Benefit Package including Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
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401K w/ Company Match
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Voluntary Life & AD&D Insurance and Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
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Vacation/Sick Time and Paid Holidays
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Potential Bonus Opportunities
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Career Development Opportunities
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Employee Discounts
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Weekly Payroll
Work Environment
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Work sites are outdoors in potentially extreme weather conditions
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All worksite safety instructions are written and spoken in English; must be fluent in English
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Work includes prolonged and repeated: lifting (including overhead, up to 50lbs); standing; climbing; kneeling; reaching and feeling; crouching and crawling
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Work is performed within the “red zone” of heavy equipment
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Working safely requires quick/accurate hand-eye coordination and the ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner
Legal Stuff
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Pass pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens
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Provide valid US work authorization documents for E-Verify
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Satisfactory results of pre-employment background check results
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Valid driver’s license with clean driving record
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Pre-employment medical fit-for-duty test; hold/obtain DOT medical card
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Commitment
This job description is subject to change at any time. It reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, and does not exclude or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Centuri and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. Centuri will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a test or job interview) if so requested.
Centuri is a Department of Transportation regulated employer. Certain safety-sensitive positions are covered under the DOT Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations, 49 CFR Part 40. It is important to note that marijuana remains a drug listed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. It remains unacceptable for any safety-sensitive employee subject to drug testing under the company’s Drug Free Workplace Policy to use or test positive for marijuana.
How this job compares
Set against the 497 open Lineman jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$44–55/hr103 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 66 open Lineman jobs in Texas and 497 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Lineman postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (334 postings).
- Education
- 1 of the 497 open Lineman jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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