Ralph Bartlett Email & Phone Number

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Lead Electrical Distribution Line Inspector; Ensure Safe job performance conducted by contract crews; build Overhead & Underground Power Lines Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in line with PG&E specifications (As-Builts); continued communications with PG&E Distribution Operations (D.O.) Switching & Tagging; perform Switch Logs with D.O (Clearances, Non-Tests, End of Lines (E.O.L.); Continued Certification O.S.H.A. Utility / Electrical Training

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Inspector for MYR Transmission. The customer was Xcel Energy Corporation. The project was eight months long. The new line consisted of setting Myers poles with a double circuit 161kv & 345kv, and two OPGW’s (fiber optic cable).

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Represented Bonneville Power Authority (BPA) – Department Of Energy (DOE). The project was a 2.5 month outage that fed L.A. from the dalles, Oregon. Replaced existing insulators, dead ends, jumpers and installation of shunts over existing conductor splices. 500KV DC, lattice towers.

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Inspector on Bonneville Power Administration’s (Department of Energy) large transmission & substation projects. The typical assigned transmission projects were between two to seventy five miles long. Voltages include: 115KV, 230KV, 345KV, and 500KV; wood & steel transmission construction, substations, and switch yard projects.

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Responsible for hiring, development, training, and scheduling up to thirty four linemen, and six cable splicer’s. In charge of safety meetings, OSHA training, CPR & medical examiners renewals, boom & bucket liner HI pot testing, hot stick testing, rubber glove & sleeve change out, submittals for switching & tagging, on call duties and emergency operations center duties when decentralization required for storm duty. Submitted SIRS Reports (near misses), and vehicle accident reports. Proficient with computer.

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Directed switching, tagging, & writing switching orders

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Senior Trainer over the apprenticeship program, line SERT, and system operators

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Trainer over the apprenticeship program, line SERT, system operators, and instructor, Electric Utility Technology, Middlesex Community College

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Cable Replacement Program. Reconfigured and replaced underground circuits. Radial and loop feeds. Installation of manholes, S&C switching cabinets, and underground cable. Twenty four to thirty men.

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Coordinated and directed line crews from inception to job completion. Work practices to include all equipment, hardware, and related materials used on overhead/underground distribution & transmission lines. All work performed using hot sticks (no rubber gloving)Various substation & transmission projects

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All work performed using high/low voltage rubber gloves (rubber gloving). Worked on substations, sub-transmission, transmission, and oil static transmission installation