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Basin Electric Power Cooperative
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2026 current openings
North Dakota
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Groundmen · Apprentices · Journeymen
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Basin Electric Power Cooperative is hiring linemen. Basin Electric owns over 2,000 miles of high-voltage transmission facilities, and operates 5,222 megawatts (MW) of generating resources, comprised of coal, gas, oil, renewable, and distributed energy. Basin Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC) is a not-for-profit generation and transmission cooperative that provides wholesale power supply and transmission service to 131 rural electric cooperatives across nine states including facilities located in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Step 01. Pay
Average Basin Electric Power Cooperative Lineperson hourly pay in the United States is approximately $46.93. Basin Electric Power Cooperative provide national Insurance, Health & Wellness, Financial & Retirement Plans.
Step 02. Apprentice
Apprentices at Basin Electric Power Cooperative, This position is responsible to complete the apprenticeship program to attain the qualifications of a system protection journeyman. This position is also responsible to operate, maintain, repair, and inspect system protection equipment and schemes. This includes: electromechanical relays, solid state relays, programmable relays, networks, power line carrier, tone equipment, digital fault recorders, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and ancillary equipment used in high voltage substations.
Step 03. Journeyman
Journeyman lineman at Basin Electric Power Cooperative working mostly on a rotating shift, but at times on a regular day-shift assignment, and regularly working alone, to patrol, repair and restore service and handle customer service repairs and adjustments as found necessary to restore service.
Step 04. Hiring
At Basin Electric Power Cooperative lineman requires frequent sitting, standing, walking, and climbing structures and ladders, including lattice steel towers and wood or steel poles to heights up 300 feet while the lines are energized; and occasional bending, climbing stairs, kneeling, reaching, crawling, use of keyboard/computer, use of foot controls, turning valves, pushing/pulling up to 150 pounds, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
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