Linesperson

81277 - Linesperson

This Linesperson position will report to the Lead Operational Engineer and will work within the UKPN Services directorate based in our Chatham office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £46,400.00 and a bonus of 3%.

If you are successful, you will need to undertake a medical and DBS reference check

Close Date: 29/08/2025

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Job Purpose

You will manage the delivery of network enhancement projects and / or restoration of electrical supplies on the UK Power Networks distribution system, carrying out repairs on the overhead lines

Responsibilities

• Perform all work in connection with the construction, maintenance and report of
  • Overhead lines and any associate plant and equipment, connections, and earthing, including cable laying and necessary excavation, backfill and reinstatement
  • Overhead line service lines, pilots and catenaries, service termination equipment and connections thereto
• Patrol overhead lines and reports defects and any work being performed in the vicinity of the line route.
• Perform work on live 240/415v apparatus conductors or equipment following the appropriate safety rules.
• You will perform live line work on overhead lines up to and including 33kv.
• Install and connects, or disconnects and removes, or re-sites whole current metering.
• Remove and replace links and fuses on the 240/415v network.
• Use meters and instruments and record readings.
• Help with resistance, thermal and height measurements on overhead lines.
• Perform rigging, erect and inspect pre-formed scaffolds and pole and clip scaffolds.
• You will perform tree felling and tree trimming.
• Drive vehicles, clean them and perform roadworthiness checks.
• Operate communications/data transmission and display equipment.
• Operate mechanical aids and use portable equipment.
• Switch, isolate and earth when authorised to do so.
• Required to undertake standby on a contractual basis

Nature and Scope

You will work with the team to achieve the targets set out in the Performance Dashboard. You will work under your own initiative and demonstrate the ability to perform risk assessments to create a safe working environment.

Qualifications

• LV & HV Authorised
• SPN and/or EPN network competency certificate
• City & Guilds 232 certificate
• Complete self-risk assessments
• Work as part of a team
• To be prepared to train and learn new skills to perform the full range of tasks.
• To have experience in the field of overhead line construction and maintenance.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

Employees need to be aware that for some craft and operational roles that work at height, or use fall arrest devices, there is an upper weight limit of 116Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used.

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.