STORM RESTORATION
For over a decade, we have provided damage assessment for our utility partners. Our management team ensures our qualified personnel are always ready for rapid deployment. Prioritizing accurate evaluations and adapting to our clients' collection applications and processes are key components of our approach. By delivering timely and precise assessments, our team contributes to significantly reducing overall restoration times for utilities.
Storm Services Engineering utilizes a two-person assessment team concept, with each assessor possessing extensive distribution restoration experience, and most having at least twenty-five years in the industry. Our Damage Assessment services can include:
- Switching (using Extendo sticks from the ground)
- Feeder Sweeps
- Drone Inspections
- Verifying customer's ability to accept power
- Verifying facility map changes
- Work order and sketch documentation of impacted facilities, including distribution design
- Post-storm services
- Infrared inspections
RESTORATION CREW COORDINATOR/LINE CREW OVERSIGHT
Frequently, a large number of contractor line crews are brought in for storm restoration, leading to a need for additional, experienced management to oversee these crews. Our Restoration Crew Coordinator (RCC) teams serve as the single point of contact and liaison between contractors and utilities. RCCs provide coordination, guidance, and oversight, ensuring contractors adhere to client’s requirements safely and productively.
Restoration Crew Coordinators:
- have a minimum of 20 years of hands-on or managerial line construction and operating experience.
- are personable and can issue guidance in a professional manner.
- monitor the line crew’s time and hours worked.
- adapt to various client’s restoration processes, safety requirements, direction, construction standards, work hours, and culture.
- patrol assigned circuits, as needed.
Storm Services Engineering has safety-oriented, highly productive line crews with vast experience in storm restoration. When not engaged in storm restoration, our crews also perform everyday work for utilities. Our safety specialists conduct regular on-site evaluations to ensure that safety and compliance regulations are always a priority. Our reliable Line Crew Management Team oversees safety and efficiency, providing prompt daily reporting of time and activities.
Our Line Crews:
- have extensive restoration experience across various events, climates, and conditions.
- are skilled in post-storm rebuilds, construction, and feeder hardening work.
- arrive equipped with reliable, state-of-the-art equipment.
- consist of seasoned, established crews.
TREE, LINE CLEARANCE, AND VEGETATION MANAGEMENT CREWS
Storm Services Engineering offers experienced tree crews, operating under the guidance of highly qualified supervisors. Our tree trimming management teams include certified arborists and foresters with decades of experience in storm restoration. They are adept at handling various construction designs and voltages for utilities nationwide.
Tree Crews provide:
- safe and efficient clearing.
- outstanding safety performance and training.
- state of the art equipment and tools.
- post storm trimming and clean up.
- Right-of-way (ROW) clearing and maintenance.
- prompt reporting of daily time and activities.
- on-site safety resources.
The Storm Services Engineering Wire Guard Teams are predominantly composed of former law enforcement officers, along with select former utility workers. This group has consistently demonstrated the ideal skill set, experience, and work ethic required for the Wire Guard role. Having spent their careers managing and securing various scenes, they are adept at protecting themselves and the public from field hazards.
Our Utility Operations Experts and Safety Specialists formulated a Wire Guard Training Program, which serves to train and evaluate our Wire Guard Teams annually. This meticulously designed training provides a thorough understanding of identifying specific hazardous field conditions, recognizing hidden dangers, such as step and touch potential, and taking the necessary actions to safeguard both the team and the public.
Our Wireguard service provide:
- day and night shifts with dedicated management for each shift.
- rovers to give relief to Wire Guards dispatched for extended hours.
- dispatching, communicating, and monitoring locations of those dispatched.
- estimated time of arrival.
- a single point of contact with utility personnel.
- PPE and necessary equipment.
OUR SELECTION OF PARTNERS
Storm Services Engineering has forged partnerships with some of the premier line construction and tree trimming companies in the country. Each partner boasts an exemplary safety record, comprehensive safety training, and state-of-the-art equipment and tools, all maintained in a state of readiness. We maintain regular communication with our partners, frequently visiting and sharing information to ensure we are always prepared. Our collaborative efforts have spanned from the Northeast to the Florida Keys and everywhere in between, consistently earning invitations to return when needed. Storm Services Engineering is equipped to assist any utility company with storm restoration.
QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF WORK
Our line crew supervision team brings a combined 120 years of experience in line construction, storm restoration, and safety. Together with our construction partners, the quality and productivity of our crews have been consistently praised by the utilities we serve. A dedicated Storm Services Engineering supervisor will be your primary contact and will always be on-site with our crews, ensuring seamless communication and oversight.
SAFETY IS OUR MAIN GOAL
Storm Services Engineering conducts regular visits with all our partners throughout the year to ensure compliance with OSHA and DOT regulations. We verify that all equipment is in optimal working condition, including verifying that rubber goods, sticks, and grounds are tested and ready for service. We insist that our partners have an EMR of less than one. We start each day with a group safety meeting. We pause, discuss, and document when hazards change. Our team members are like our family, and we treat them that way. We encourage teamwork and require respect to team members, clients, and their customers.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
We understand the importance of treating our client’s customers with respect and courtesy. We are committed to respecting their property and taking every precaution to prevent any damage while performing our work. We require this for all our personnel and partners. We take pride in these efforts and are honored to have been commended by our clients.
Storm Services provides experienced storeroom personnel to alleviate the heavy burden of stocking and delivering materials during restoration events. Our team includes certified forklift operators and storeroom assistants, equipped with pickup trucks or cargo vans to efficiently transport materials to your job sites. Additionally, our veteran Storeroom Managers possess the necessary skills to establish remote field store operations.
RECOVERY OF TRANSMISSION/DISTRIBUTION MATERIAL
Storm Services Engineering can supply the personnel and equipment needed for post-storm debris cleanup. We efficiently collect damaged and destroyed poles, conductors, and transformers, returning them to the utility’s yard for sorting and recycling. We will promptly report any hazardous waste issues requiring remediation. Our team has the knowledge to distinguish between electric utility debris and CATV/telephone debris.