Groundman Pre-Apprentice

About Ameren Illinois

Ameren Illinois provides electric transmission and distribution service and natural gas distribution service. Every day, we deliver electricity to 1.2 million electric and 816,000 natural gas customers in central and southern Illinois. We deliver safe, reliable energy to more than 1,200 communities.

Under direct, but not constant supervision while assigned to line crews to safely drive a truck, on occasions pulling a trailer or float, to and from a garage, transporting employees, material, and equipment from job to job, to operate truck – mounted power machinery when opportunity exists, to do ground work or handling of tools and materials and to do similar and less skilled work as assigned. In this connection to perform details of work, such as but not limited to:

• Send tools and materials to linemen on poles.
• Assist in pulling in and pulling out wire or watching wire reels during pulling operations.
• Manipulate fall line or wire on winch or power reel; or, when assigned, signal the operation of winch or boom.
• Assist in delivering line tools & materials.
• Stock materials, tools & maintain housekeeping on trucks, trailers, and equipment.
• Perform work of general labor class, such as: load or unload poles, ladders, lines, blocks, rigging tools and materials. Help in making up cross arms, pole fixtures and guys, and splice unenergized wires, dig holes, setting anchors and poles, do trenching and assist in adjusting poles to grade, assist in carrying poles, transformers and materials to points inaccessible to truck, load brush and do general labor work.

Qualifications

• Meet a 25 domicile requirement
• Possess a High School diploma or equivalent
• Receive a recommended status on the company apprentice Lineman Evaluations
• Climb poles on deenergized Lines

As a condition of acceptance on this job, candidates who are otherwise qualified will be required to take and pass the appropriate State/Federal driver's licensing requirements (have or be able to obtain a valid Class A Commercial Drivers License), medical testing and drug screening and the Construction and Skilled Trades (CAST R) test.

Hourly pay

Grade Step BD 083 Step 1 of 1 (Top Step) - 44.07 USD

Position is eligible for annual incentive payments based on company performance and subject to sole management discretion. Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees. ​

If end date is listed, the posting will come down at 12:00 am on that date:

Friday October 16, 2026

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, military service or status, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other class, trait, or status protected by law.