Step 01. Pay
TXU Lineman Pay and Salary Information
The average annual salary for a lineworker at TXU is $68,500.
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Texas
Headquarters
Groundmen · Apprentices · Journeymen
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Utility · before you apply
TXU is hiring linemen. The company’s generation fleet totals approximately 39,000 megawatts of highly efficient generation capacity, with a diverse portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery storage facilities. TXU Energy is a subsidiary of Vistra, a premier, integrated energy company based in Irving, Texas, combining an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with a focus on safe, reliable, and efficient power generation.
Step 02. Apprentice
Lineman Apprenticeships at TXU
Apprentice lineworkers at TXU must safely perform any work normally or reasonably required in this classification. This position builds, maintains, inspects, trouble-shoots, replaces, and repairs distribution power lines, poles, and related equipment according to Company specifications and manufacturer's recommendations. Successful candidate will review work orders and determine material needed to complete jobs; along with being able to safely load wire coils, poles, equipment, and materials onto trucks.
Step 03. Journeyman
TXU Journeyman Lineman Jobs
Journeyman lineman at TXU Installs, maintains, and removes underground conductors, conduits, vaults, transformers, elbows, terminators, splices including secondary conductors and connections.
Step 04. Hiring
TXU Lineman Job Hiring Process
To become a Lineman at must have a High School diploma or GED, driver license, clothing dress, tools, gear and boots.
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Where TXU hires
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- 1 surveyed opening
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Unions, schools, and peers
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Step 01. Schools
Training programs that feed this market
Start with the National Public Power online pre-apprenticeship, then compare college and trade programs employers hire from.
National Public Power Pre-Apprenticeship
Enroll- Online · 5 weeks
- Pre-apprenticeship
- $399
Texas A&M Extension Service Lineman Academy
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- College Station
- $15,000
Kilgore College Lineman Program
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- Kilgore
- $4,050
Lamar Institute of Technology Lineman Program
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- Beaumont
- $1,700
Western Texas College Lineman Program
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- Snyder
- $5,400
Odessa College Lineman Program
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- Odessa
- $4,800
South Plains College Lineman Program
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- Levelland
- $1,200
Step 02. Unions
IBEW locals in this employer's territory
Locals we've seen tied to this employer's system. Utility crews are usually hired direct, not dispatched off the books.
IBEW 602
Local- IBEW local
- Amarillo, Texas
IBEW 220
Local- IBEW local
- Arlington, Texas
IBEW 2286
Local- IBEW local
- Beaumont, Texas
IBEW 69
Local- IBEW local
- Dallas, Texas
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