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The duties of an outside lineman are listed below. The number of brackets next to the duty is the average of the percentage of journeyman reporting that they perform each task within the duty. Tasks within each of the duties are included in the job description if they are performed by at least 10 percent of the journeymen surveyed. Tasks are described as daily, weekly, monthly or occasionally based upon the responses of a majority of journeymen in the position. Tasks were rated between very and extremely important by both journeymen and training directors and instructors have an asterisk.

I. Planning and Initiating Projects
II. Establishing OSHA and Customer Safety Requirements
III. Setting of Towers, Poles and Construction of Other Devices to Hold Electrical Wiring
IV. Establishing Work Position for Maintaining and Repairing Overhead Distribution or Transmission Lines
V. Stringing New Wire or Maintaining Old Wire
VI. Installing and Maintaining Insulators
VII. Installing and Maintaining Transformers and Other Equipment
VIII. Supervising Journeymen and Apprentices
IX. Installing, Repairing and Maintaining an Underground Electrical Distribution System
X. Assembly and Erection of Substations
XI. Installing, Maintaining and Repairing Traffic or Train Signals and Outdoor Lighting
XII. Tree Trimming
XIII. Use of Tools