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Substation Technician

Davis H Elliot Company, Inc.
Lexington, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 12/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/8/2026


    

For over seven decades investor-owned utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, and others have entrusted their electrical construction and maintenance needs to Davis H. Elliot Company, Inc. (Elliot).

Elliot is a full-service electrical contractor specializing in overhead and underground distribution, transmission, substations, lighting, traffic signaling, utility locating and industrial/commercial services.

Job Description

As a Substation Technician you will be assisting in the installation, construction, maintenance, and repair of Transmission and Distribution Substations. This position is managed out of Lexington, KY with work in multiple locations and opportunities throughout Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, West Virginia.

Qualifications

  • Valid Class A CDL license and medical card recommended (required within 6mos)
  • 1 year of experience required
  • 1-2 years of experience recommended
  • Own your own hand tools
  • Intermediate understanding of electrical substations
  • Willing to travel
  • Must be able to pass a criminal background check and drug screening

Benefits/Culture

Today, we are listed among Engineering News-Records Top 150 Specialty Contracting firms. Our success is based on our customers' confidence in us; the loyalty, hard work and performance of our people; and the traditions with which Mr. Davis H. Elliot began the company in 1946. We understand that having the best team requires people being treated like family. Some of the benefits we offer our team includes:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
  • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Company Paid Life Insurance w/ additional Voluntary Life Insurance
  • 401K w/ company match
  • Employee Stock Ownership Program
  • Paid Vacation 
  • Servant Leadership Training
  • Uniforms and PPE provided
Accessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process please contact Human Resources at
Phone: 859-263-5148 x1504
Email: clester@dhec.com

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