Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Are you looking for a hands-on career where you can work outdoors, solve problems, and be part of a team that keeps communities connected? As an Aerial Construction Technician I – Fiber Optics , you’ll play a vital role in building and maintaining fiber optic networks by installing, troubleshooting, and repairing overhead fiber lines. This dynamic and physically engaging position involves pulling, tensioning, stranding, and spacing lines, as well as performing pole transfers, strand building, lashing, make-readies, and mounting equipment. You’ll work in both communication and power spaces, gaining valuable experience in a growing industry. If you enjoy working with your hands, aren’t afraid of heights or confined spaces, and want to be part of a supportive team, this is your opportunity to build a rewarding career with room for advancement. Join us and help power the connections that keep businesses and communities running!

Responsibilities

• Safely perform work in communication spaces
• Qualify to work safely in energized spaces
• Participate in training for pole climbing
• Inspect, mobilize, and operate a bucket truck from the cab
• Record and report the sequential foot marks by the operator or groundman
• Responsible for framing poles
• Pull cable, strand, fiber, and lash, for extended periods of time
• Provide framing and attachment hardware for operator, jack down guys, pull lasher

Working Conditions

• Walk/use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls / Reach with hands and arms / Climb ladders and stairs / crawl/kneel
• Climb poles; carry, set up and extend ladders weighing up to 65 pounds, as well as work with confidence on ladders and utility poles at heights of up to 60 feet in the air to perform tasks in communications spaces
• Work indoors, outdoors, and underground in various weather conditions
• Able to walk long distances
• Able to lift up to 65 pounds without assistance

Qualifications

• No prior experience necessary
• Valid Driver’s License is required
• Experience using the following equipment: ladders, bucket truck, cable puller, and reel stands preferred
• Experience operating small equipment preferred (i.e., forklift, bobcat, telehandler, skid steer, etc.)
• General construction and/or flagging experience preferred
• Must be comfortable working at elevated heights and in confined spaces

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

This position requires the completion of a thorough background and pre-employment drug and alcohol screening. In accordance with The Company’s Drug and Alcohol policy, employees are required to participate in random, post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing as requested.

AAP/EEO Statement
This Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that provides opportunities without regard to any protected classes under applicable law.

ADA Statement

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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